Hayman Series 1 - Items 26-37

(26) Very early, undated, section plans of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, scale about 20' to 1 mile

Section 1 Irwell Upper Reach, Water Street, Manchester

Section 2 Throstle Nest Lock/Weir, Trafford

Section 3 Mode Wheel Lock/Weir, Eccles

Section 4 Barton Lock/Weir (missing)

Section 5 Stickings Cut and Lock below Barton

Section 6 Holme Bridge and Lock/Weir and Calamanco Lock/Weir, near Flixton

Section 7 Sandywarps Lock, Irlam (removed in the early 1880s)

These are probably the only plans to this scale of the cuts, locks and weirs of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation which remain. The whole of these sections of navigation virtually disappeared into the line of the Ship Canal to below Irlam

(27) Mersey and Irwell Navigation: Engineer's list of the length of the locks 1852

(28) Mersey and Irwell Navigation: Improvement Scheme and opposition to Ship Canal Bill 1884/5 - Mr Wiswell's table of present and intended navigable and flood courses with explanatory note (relates to Item 23)

(29) Distance table 1874 for Mersey and Irwell Navigation and Bridgewater Canal routes, Rochdale Canal to Runcorn

(30) Distance table 1890 Bridgewater Canal only

(31) Diary (copy) of John Jones (Canal Inspector for Bridgewater Canal and Mersey and Irwell Navigation, Jan-Apr 1850)

(32) Monthly reports 1852-1856 to Superintendent of the Bridgewater Trust by Charles Mitchell (Agent for Bridgewater Canal and Mersey and Irwell Navigation, Warrington area), with comments on the reports by A.Hayman

(33) Plan of watershed of rivers Mersey and Irwell, 1890

(34) Record of capital expenditure on the Bridgewater Canal and Mersey and Irwell Navigation prepared by the Bridgewater Canal Company's accountant, with summary, notes and detailed analysis by A.Hayman

(35) Extract from Warrington Guardian 1865 concerning Whit Week trips on Bridgewater Canal packets and river steamer 'Dagmar' between Manchester and Liverpool

(36) Enlarged copy of the cheque for £1,710,000 by Manchester Ship Canal Company to Bridgewater Canal Company Ltd, 3 Aug 1887, for the purchase of the Bridgewater Canal and Mersey and Irwell Navigation. It was the largest cheque drawn up at that time. The original is with the National Archives.

(37) Newspaper cuttings from the Illustrated London News, 1883, on the first Ship Canal Bill; also plan of the first proposed course