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©Raymond Knapman
Dist:0.4km<br/>Nature is slowly reclaiming this abandoned industrial site in St Helens.
©Gary Rogers
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©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is Albert Street, St Helens. What used to be the Albert Street entrance to Pilkington's (Now Nippon Sheet Glass)Cowley Hill Works is in the middle distance. Houses once lined this street right up to the works entrance and glass workers would pour out along the street every day at shift change over. Now there are abandoned car parks either side of the road and there is no public access. However the factory still produces glass and is serviced via the entrance on College Street.
©Gary Rogers
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©Raymond Knapman
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©Colin Pyle
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©Ian Greig
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Sankey was extended to Ravenhead, through what is now the centre of St. Helens, in 1775. A second set of double locks was constructed to raise the canal to the higher level from that of the Gerards Bridge Branch. As may be seen from the other view of the locks, silt from the Rainford Brook has gathered in the pool below the locks.
©David Long
Dist:0.6km<br/>Sadly neglected despite being restored.
©David Long
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©David Long
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©Ian Greig
Dist:0.6km<br/>Part of the original line of the 1757 Sankey Brook Navigation, fed by the Rainford Brook. The derelict cottage on the right is the last of the cottages built for keepers at the locks and swing bridges along the canal. The wooden swing bridge which stood here was replaced with a fixed stone bridge in about 1934, following Abandonment of the canal here in 1931. The mound on the right is the "Burgey Banks" - waste sand used for polishing glass in the nearby Pilkington Glass Works.
©David Long
Dist:0.6km<br/>WWII Pill Box atop a Bridge support over the St Helens Canal.
©Peach
Dist:0.7km<br/>St Mark's Church of England in North Road, St Helens was founded in 1883.
©Sue Adair
Dist:0.7km<br/>Various sections of the Sankey Canal have been restored over the past twenty years. This is one of the earlier restorations. It was carried out when the St. Helens' Technology Campus (right) was built, and provides a pleasant ambience for the staff there... though not all might enjoy the nostalgia of seeing one of the last, genuine gas-works walls in the region.
©David Long

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