{"id":1350,"date":"2016-08-28T18:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladyteal.co.uk\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2016-08-28T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:21:45","slug":"leeds-liverpool-canal-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ladyteal.co.uk\/leeds-liverpool-canal-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Liverpool Canal Halsall"},"content":{"rendered":"
John Longbotham was the canal engineer put in charge of the building of the Leeds Liverpool. As you can imagine this was a bit of an interesting one given it was necessary to team up Lancastrians and Yorkshiremen! To try and deal with this in a balance way they stare at both side of the country. In Lancashire that , for some reason, was not at Liverpool but was at Haskayne. One of the few cuttings through a hill, maybe they wanted the stone.<\/p>\n
We went through Halsall\u00a0today and we love the memorial to the men who built the canal . The Navvy , by Thomas Dagnall, is in\u00a0Millstone Grit and is brilliant. Whilst most people believe that the navvies were all Irish this is probably not true, most were local men after a job. It was only later that more Irish men appeared. The work was undertaken by small contractors and few records survive to be absolutely sure.<\/p>\n