This yard provided a full maintenance support service to the company boats ranging from general servicing to boat rebuilding. The location of the yard was close to the corner of Cornwall street and Ogden Lane.
View looking up the short arm onto the junction with the Stockport Arm of the Ashton Canal
Photograph from Jim Pedens’ collection

A boat being refurbished in the dry dock
Photograph from Jim Pedens’ collection

The above photographs tie in very well with John Bradshaws description on the Contemporary Memories page

Back of Gorton Maintenance Yard
Photograph courtesy of Stalybridge Reporter

The entrance to the Gorton Maintenance Yard 2003

The coal yard on the site of the Gorton Maintenance Site

 

© W Bates, 2002 

Last update: 01 October, 2004