Re: on ta barge down cut!
The photograph on your right is certanly of the Leeds -Liverpool canal. However, its not in Church or anywhere in Hyndburn, for that matter. Some of you who are of a literary bent may well have come accross it before; it is in fact, Wigan Pier, as per Orwell (the pier was actually a ramp for tipping coal into barges). The picture wa used on one of the Penguin editions a few years back. The building which is vaguely visible in the background and which looks like a Church is in fact Trencherfield Mill, which still stands.
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