On Saturday 23 August I went to view progress but, except for the Princes Dock area, hoardings and security fencing made it impossible to view progress between Canning and Stanley Docks. I have placed seven of the photos I took in a Liverpool Canal Link folder in the Photos section. Fortunately a British Waterways site has an aerial photography section showing progress as at April 2008.
http://www.britishwaterways.com/liverpool-canal-link/aerial-photography/april Whilst three webcams, refreshed every three hours can be viewed at http://www.britishwaterways.com/liverpool-canal-link/webcam As most members will know, the 127 mile Leeds & Liverpool Canal currently ends in Liverpool just south of the flight of four locks which runs down to Stanley Dock. The Liverpool Canal Link is a £20m project which extends the canal through Collingwood, Salisbury, Waterloo and Princes Docks, across the Pier Head in front of the 'Three Graces' and into the South Docks providing a further 1½ miles of navigable waterway. The route includes two new locks, open channels and tunnels. British Waterways (optimistically?) say that the Pier Head section should be finished this month with the link throughout completed by December. A period of testing and commissioning, will follow enabling it to be open to boats in the Spring of 2009. When open the journey along the link should be quite a unique and exciting experience! Ralph [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
