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English: High Street Bridge Uppermill The Huddersfield Narrow Canal runs for 20 miles between Huddersfield in West Yorkshire under the Pennines and on to Ashton under Lyne in Greater Manchester.
The canal has a total of 74 locks and at its summit the canal is the highest navigable waterway in Britain. The canal closed in 1948 and it was 53 years before it re-opened again to navigation. In April 2000 work started on the re-instatement of Wade Lock and High Street bridge. When the canal was originally built, the road twisted across a bridge here. When the canal was closed, the top of the bridge's arch was removed so that the road way could be straightened and flattened. This presented a problem when it came to restoring the canal as the road was then wider than the original bridge. The condition of the remains of the bridge was unknown so it was not known whether a completely new bridge needed to be built. Luckily the existing structure was in a good enough condition to be restored and used, saving a lot of construction time and meaning that the job could be carried out without completely closing the road as had been feared. During construction, one side of High Street was fenced off at a time and the traffic was controlled by signals. On the 18th of May 2001 the bridge was reopened by the then Mayor of Oldham Councillor Christine Wheeler For more information and pictures of the construction click on http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/huddersfield/hnc52d.htm |
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| Author | Paul Anderson |
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