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Dist:0.1km<br/>The Cafe on the right is now a car wash, but the painted sign on the roof remains a delight from an earlier age of motoring.
©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.1km<br/>The bridge carries the St. Helens-Wigan North Western line.
©Peter Whatley
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©Ian Greig
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©Raymond Knapman
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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.2km<br/>The recently restored Lancashire Union Railway bridge over Black Brook dates from 1869 The Lancahire Union Railway line ran from St. Helens to Blackburn. The only part of the line now in use is this section between St. Helens and Wigan.
©K A
Dist:0.2km<br/>Carr Mill Dam was extensively extended to hold the water supply for the Sankey Brook Navigation, built 1755 - 1757, England's first canal of the Industrial Revolution. The waters flowed from the outflow on the right via the Blackbrook to the canal. As boats used water to lock up and down the canal, water would be released from the dam to maintain the levels in the pounds between the locks.
©David Long
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©Ian Greig
Dist:0.3km<br/>Maintenance of StHelens to Wigan railway bridge over Blackbrook
©Raymond Knapman
Dist:0.3km<br/>The weir controlling flow into the continuation of Black Brook which flows under the railway bridge.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.3km<br/>Originally just a mill pond built to supply Carr's Mill the dam is fed by two stream, the Goyt to the north east and Black Brook to the north west. The Dam was created in the 1750's to supply the newly built Sankey Canal system. View from the south end of the Dam near the motel.
©Gary Rogers
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©Raymond Knapman
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©Stephen Halpin
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©Stephen Halpin
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©Ian Greig

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