Hayman Series 1 - Items 38-40

(38)Mersey and Irwell Navigation: Warrington area

Detailed plan of Howley Quay Wharf and warehouses, 1889; also photograph of Howley Weir.

Plan of Warrington 1890 (4 years before the Ship Canal opened to Manchester) showing Mersey and Irwell Navigation above and below Warrington lock/weir; also East area - Paddington Lock (west end Woolston Canal), Latchford Lock (re-named Manor Lock), Howley Quay and Mersey Mills, Runcorn and Latchford Canal to Twenty Steps Lock (new Ship Canal work) and Runcorn and Latchford Canal bi-sected by the Ship Canal; also Central area - old river course intended for Warrington Dock, river diversion and line of Ship Canal; also West area - Atherton's Quay below Bank Quay, one of the earliest quays on the Mersey estuary

Detailed plan of Warrington 1896 - 2 years after the opening of the Ship Canal

Agreement for cut to Mersey Mills, Warrington Weir, 1761-1955 - originally with Messrs Gregg, Orford and Dumbell, later J.Fairclough and Sons and Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales Farmers' Association

Historical report by F.E.White, Warrington Agent, Aug 1936

(39) Early, undated, full-length plan of Manchester Ship Canal

(40) Prints of Hall and Company's Wharf, Crosfield's Wharf, Howley Quay above weir