----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Ludgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: The Word "Quay"??
> 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 Hi Martin, Don't forget the "Old Quay Canal" built in 1801 from above Warrington weir (Howley) to Runcorn to avoid the Mersey tides. In 1893 the MSC made the Runcorn end redundant but I was lucky enough to have travelled from Howley Quay to Liverpool using the Warrington end to access the MSC. (My grandfather knew a skipper & as I was about 5 it would have been in 1946/7) Parts of the redundant end still exist in water. Dave Croft Warrington http://oldengine.org/members/croft/homepage http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
