Stanley Road Pipe Bridge carries the road from Newchester to Blackpool over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Liverpool to Wigan) near to Wessstone Embankment.
Early plans of what would become the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Liverpool to Wigan) were drawn up by John Smeaton in 1876 but problems with Swansea Tunnel caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. In 1955 the Conway and Rhondda Canal built a branch to join at Nantwich. The four mile section between Southton and Northcorn was closed in 1888 after a breach at Eastworth. "1000 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Henry Harding describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Ambersford Aqueduct.

There is a bridge here which takes a pipe over the canal.
| Coffee House Bridge No O | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Lancs & Yorks Railway Bridge No P | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Carolina Street Bridge No 1 | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Carolina Street Arm | 1½ furlongs | |
| Washington Parade Bridge No 1a | ¾ furlongs | |
| Stanley Road Pipe Bridge | ||
| Stanley Road Footbridge No 2 | a few yards | |
| Stanley Road Bridge No 2A | ¼ furlongs | |
| Litherland Road Bridge No 2b | 1½ furlongs | |
| Bootle Winding Hole | 2¾ furlongs | |
| Marsh Lane Bridge No 2C | 3½ furlongs | |
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![Triad Building, Stanley Road, Bootle. Its distinctive profile looms over its surroundings. Above a podium sits a tower with a triangular core and a wing projecting from each face, tapering to a point. The tower is clad in oblong concrete modules, reminiscent of Richard Seifert's practice ([[[7682545]]]). The architects here were Hind Woodhouse Partnership, the date 1971-74. Pevsner protests that it is](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/91/21/2912157_4df2ed8d_120x120.jpg)


![Detail of Triad Building, Stanley Road, Bootle (2). The windows are set into the faceted dark concrete modules.Wider view: [[[2912157]]]. by Stephen Richards – 13 July 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/68/25/7682546_80107831_120x120.jpg)

![Detail of Triad Building, Stanley Road, Bootle (1). The windows are set into the faceted dark concrete modules.Wider view: [[[2912157]]]. by Stephen Richards – 13 July 2016](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/68/25/7682545_9a0a6095_120x120.jpg)




![Merton House, Stanley Road, Bootle. Built c1967, the architects Gunton & Gunton for developers Kenyon Construction Co. Occupied at the time by Sefton Council.Improbable as it may seem, Pevsner adduces Bootle as perhaps the nearest we come (or came) in this country to a Corbusian vision. Prompted by the need to revive a flagging economy previously reliant on the docks and the arrival of the Inland Revenue, in the mid 1960s the planners in Bootle, guided by the precepts of the French modernist architect, Le Corbusier, embarked on an ambitious reinvention of the town. Stanley Road was lined with towers and slabs, but, as Pevsner points out, the vision was undermined by the survival of older buildings in their midst. More recently, at least one has been demolished ([[[1538651]]]). by Stephen Richards – 28 July 2011](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/91/21/2912165_86473c6c_120x120.jpg)
