Reflections

Although the canal is much reduced it still has an enjoyable towpath walk.

Marker

Looking like a Google Maps pin made real or a giant bottle opener this marker shows where this stretch of Sankey Canal ends.

Sankey Bridge 29

Another dead end, a railway bridge which still bears LNWR signs.

Dead end

Now a dead end at a bridge.

Sankey Canal

This week's theme is the Sankey Canal at St Helens, once the key point of the canal (such that the canal was also known as the St Helens Canal) but now the canal is much depleted and just consists of two disjointed parts of waterways though there are plans to restore it. The full photos set can be seen here.