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Duke of Bridgewater 's canal, 1950's - Film 18885

Duke of Bridgewater 's canal, the first canal, by Brindley perhaps its Duke of Bridgwater inspected by a team of miners as it was owned by British Coal but flooded and abandoned. A pit head with the lift winding gear and a square brick building. This is Ellesmere pit coal mine near Manchester. The pit is now a pumping station. A close-up of a street sign which reads 'Bridgewater Road' on a brick wall. A map of the Midlands near Ellesmere while the commentary describes the 18th century Duke of Bridgewater who worked out the underwater canal system for working his coal. The road on which and then the headquarter building of the National Coal Board in Walken, it is a 19th century grand house. Three miners with helmets and Davy lamps enter a lift which a fourth operates. We see the three begin to descend in the lift cage. They are going to inspect the old canal network. Miners with lamps lit on the head descend a flight of metal stairs into a brick lined man made cavern. They step into a low flat bottomed boat, which was used by the 18th century miners. The boat enters the very low tunnel entrance. They have to lie flat, while someone else pushes the boat in - there is no engine. The edge of the boat seen going through the water. The raggy and uneven ceiling and walls of the tunnel pass over head. The miner move the boat by walking their feet on the ceiling. We see brick work arches and bare rock walls. Feet of miners in the air walking the ceiling. The inspection team of miners are Jimmy Stave and two Yugoslavian miners. They proceed through the passage. There is a marker post to show if the water level is too high or low for the boat to travel. Close-up of feet in boats and iron rings embedded in the ceiling. The canal is now used to drain off water from other colliery. A man in a helmet turns a round wheel on a series of pipes and water gushes out. A pressure gauge arrow goes up quickly. The inspection team emerges from a low tunnel in their boat at Worsley. A coal tug on the Worsley canal with NCB painted on the other side. A narrow boat in a covered dry dock. A NCB tug pulls a number of lighters near the half-timbered house in the background. The three miners climb out of their low boat and walk up the hill.