In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >I think "quay" was never used for a waterway facillity. In Britain, >it seems to have appeared only to refer to sanitised docks, e.g. >"Surrey Quays" for the infilled, shallowed, built over, and generally >sadly ruined Surrey Docks. > If you look at the map of Manchester's waterways in 1849 on pages 276-7 of Hadfield and Biddle's 'Canals of North West England' (Vol 2) you will find 'Old Quay', 'New Quay' and 'Victoria Quay' on the River Irwell, 'Eagle Quay' on the Rochdale Canal and ''Castle Quay' on the Bridgewater Canal. However you will also find a lot more 'wharf' names.
Maybe either (a) it was a regional thing - I don't recall hearing the word used elsewhere on inland waterways - or (b) it fell out of use for inland waterways facilities after 1849. I had assumed that 'Salford Quays' (the new name used for the former Ship Canal docks) was an entirely modern invention, but the same book mentions a Salford Quay company which existed in the 18th Century. -- Martin Ludgate
