In the early 1990s, developers unveiled an incredible plan to build a £70m theme park on wasteland at Pomona Docks. Space ...

Rescue teams are searching the Manchester Ship Canal for a seventh day after a man entered the water. Emergency services ...

A search operation on the Manchester Ship Canal has now entered its second week after a man entered the water at Irlam Locks. Emergency services first descended on the area at around 8.30pm last ...

An artwork commemorating the men who dug the Manchester Ship Canal will help to bring them the recognition they deserved, its creator has said. Navvies, an audio-visual installation at Salford ...

This painting 'The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal, Eastham Cutting, 1891' is by Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. Wilbraham, 2nd Baron Egerton of Tatton (1832-1909) , was Chairman of the ...

Specialist police officers are on the Manchester Ship Canal as a search operation enters its sixth day. Emergency services raced out to Irlam Locks, off Cadishead Way in Salford, last Thursday evening ...

A search operation on the Manchester Ship Canal has begun its sixth day following reports of a man entering the water. Emergency services first descended on the canal at Irlam Locks, off Cadishead Way ...

The Manchester Ship Canal and the Imperial War Museum are in the area included in the scheme. Chief operating officer at Manchester United Collette Roche said the club backed the "ambitious plans".

In October 2024, a group of students from BA Architecture walked along the Manchester Ship Canal from Salford to central Manchester. The field trip explored questions of infrastructure, urbanism, and ...

Liz McIvor recounts the tales of the men who built the canals - the navigators or navvies - focusing on their work on the Manchester Ship Canal. Show more This is the story of the men who built ...