Sankey Canal

Brighter days ahead for Sankey-St Helens Canal

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Web Editor

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January 11, 2024

Volunteers have responded to the threats faced by the historic Sankey-St Helens Canal by forming the Save Spike Island and Widnes Canal Restoration Group. THE newly formed restoration group has already built clay dams designed to contain salt water ingress from high tides on the Mersey into a canal bed currently low on water after…
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Sankey Canal Milestone Project set for completion

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Mark Lancaster

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August 21, 2021

THE Sankey Canal Restoration Society is about to complete its project with partners at both Warrington and St Helens Borough Councils to replace all milestones on the Sankey Canal. Society chairman Colin Greenall said: “I can only thank all the milepost sponsors for their generosity in seeing this project through to completion. It is pleasing…
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