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Our earlier blog takes shows the start of the canal from its junction with the River Irwell in Salford, rather than Manchester with still more photos in the Photo Gallery for the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal.

The canal is under restoration with lock 1-2 and lock 3 completed. The first view is looking back towards lock 1 where the canal zigzags between the locks.

Lock 3 is positioned immediately after passing under a main road.

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Rather surprisingly for a new design, the lock and bridge are so close together that there isn’t room for straight balance beams on the bottom lock gates as they would foul the fence along the edge of the pavement.

One gate has an offset beam while the other has a unique arrangement with a separate balance beam having its own pivot and linked with a bar to the gate. As it can’t contribute anything to balancing the lock gate it can’t really be a balance beam so I wonder what it should be called.

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The short pound above lock 3, stretching around 100m to the current limit of navigation was almost drained but that didn’t stop a heron standing there hopefully looking for fish.

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Standing on the edge, watching the heron, was a kingfisher. It was nice to see both of these so close to the centre of Salford.

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