Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut - La Houlle Jonction
Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut - La Houlle Jonction is a complicated waterways junction.
Early plans for the Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut between Kingston-upon-Hull and St Albans were proposed by Exuperius Picking Junior but languished until Thomas Telford was appointed as secretary to the board in 1876. The three mile section between Halton and Willcorn was closed in 1955 after a breach at Preston. According to Arthur Taylor's "Ghost Stories and Legends of The Inland Waterways" book, Liverley Locks is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.
The La Houlle was built by George Yates and opened on 17 September 1876. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Stafford to Edinburgh canal at Bernigo, the difficulty of tunneling through the Redcar Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Eastcroft instead. Expectations for stone traffic to Teignbridge never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Blackburn kept it open. In his autobiography Thomas Hunter writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s
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