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@PKYo
That reminds me, I should be writing to various MPs about cottages like those sold off by the #Bridgewater #Canal #Company at #PrestonBrook.

The terrace, built in the late 1700s, was sold off one house at a time in the 1950s. They all had brick built privies clustered together in a #communal #yard. Because the remaining #tenants all needed access to the yard the canal company retained ownership and provided an annual licence to each purchaser permitting access to the communal area.

There's no #lease. No #contract on #fees to be charged. The canal company can, it seems, charge what they like both to issue a #licence to a new #buyer of a #cottage and any #annual renewal #fee.

We ought to be able to add some appropriate clauses onto any upcoming #legislation that gives owners of #leasehold #property the #righttobuy such communal ground.

The attached map from 1894 shows the terrace, their privies and how some don't even have space to hang out washing to dry. @ukwaterways

@PKYo
That reminds me, I should be writing to various MPs about cottages like those sold off by the #Bridgewater #Canal #Company at #PrestonBrook.

The terrace, built in the late 1700s, was sold off one house at a time in the 1950s. They all had brick built privies clustered together in a #communal #yard. Because the remaining #tenants all needed access to the yard the canal company retained ownership and provided an annual licence to each purchaser permitting access to the communal area.

There's no #lease. No #contract on #fees to be charged. The canal company can, it seems, charge what they like both to issue a #licence to a new #buyer of a #cottage and any #annual renewal #fee.

We ought to be able to add some appropriate clauses onto any upcoming #legislation that gives owners of #leasehold #property the #righttobuy such communal ground.

The attached map from 1894 shows the terrace, their privies and how some don't even have space to hang out washing to dry. @ukwaterways

@ukwaterways
Back in April I mentioned the terrace of cottages on the Bridgewater Canal and the history page I'm building about it. The article mentions "Cotton's Bridge" and includes an old map showing its location.

We were at the cottage back in May and I took these two images of the site of the bridge. You have to be travelling north, having just emerged from Dutton Tunnel to appreciate the narrowing of the canal at the site of the old bridge.

As you will work out the cottages you see to the left of one of the images are part of the terrace numbered 7-12.

https://gregchapman.uk/sundry/canalsidecottages/#number

#ukcanals #bridgewater #canal #cheshire #canallife #towpath #cottage #prestonbrook #history #industrialrevolution

@ukwaterways
Back in April I mentioned the terrace of cottages on the Bridgewater Canal and the history page I'm building about it. The article mentions "Cotton's Bridge" and includes an old map showing its location.

We were at the cottage back in May and I took these two images of the site of the bridge. You have to be travelling north, having just emerged from Dutton Tunnel to appreciate the narrowing of the canal at the site of the old bridge.

As you will work out the cottages you see to the left of one of the images are part of the terrace numbered 7-12.

https://gregchapman.uk/sundry/canalsidecottages/#number

#ukcanals #bridgewater #canal #cheshire #canallife #towpath #cottage #prestonbrook #history #industrialrevolution

@ukwaterways
We often visit our granddaughter who lives with her Mum in Sale and stay for a few days in a cottage that was probably built in the 1770s and sits on the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal at Preston Brook. The building of the Bridgewater Canal kick-started the Industrial Revolution and the cottage was built at what was to become its junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal. There's a whole lot of history there which I'm beginning uncover in this article.

#canallife #towpath #cottage #prestonbrook #bridgewater #canal #brickwork #history #industrialrevolution

@ukwaterways
We often visit our granddaughter who lives with her Mum in Sale and stay for a few days in a cottage that was probably built in the 1770s and sits on the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal at Preston Brook. The building of the Bridgewater Canal kick-started the Industrial Revolution and the cottage was built at what was to become its junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal. There's a whole lot of history there which I'm beginning uncover in this article.

#canallife #towpath #cottage #prestonbrook #bridgewater #canal #brickwork #history #industrialrevolution

We'd emailed the wonderful Liam of https://www.midlandsandcoast.co.uk/ to try to sort out a #coal delivery to #ourplace which fronts the #towpath of the #Bridgewater #Canal. I took a photo of his #boat last time we got #fuel from him. It's based the same distance on one side of #PrestonBrook #bridge as we are the other. This time I needed an emergency supply. He gave me a bag, lent me a barrow to carry it home and said he'd invoice me when he delivered all we have room to store.

As I collected the fuel the sun came out to reveal The Midlands & Coast Canal Carriers Ltd yard in all its glory.

We'd emailed the wonderful Liam of https://www.midlandsandcoast.co.uk/ to try to sort out a #coal delivery to #ourplace and which fronts the #towpath of the #Bridgewater #Canal. I took a photo of his #boat last time we got #fuel from him. It's based the same distance on one side of #PrestonBrook #bridge as we are the other. This time I needed an emergency supply. He gave me a bag, lent me a barrow to carry it home and said he'd invoice me when he delivered all we have room to store.

As I collected the fuel the sun came out to reveal The Midlands & Coast Canal Carriers Ltd yard in all its glory.

Got to #Canalside #Cottages, #PrestonBrook yesterday to discover access was in the closed section of #Chester #Road. Not to worry! You can't #park in the #canal. We parked, as usual, on a nearby road.

While the #Britsh #canals have much to recommend them, when you have the open spaces of the #Norfolk #Broads on your #doorstep it's hard to say which are best.

I like to think I can balance the various diffrrences fairly as we are lucky enough to have a small #canal #workers #cottage that fronts the #Bridgewater #Canal at #PrestonBrook where we plan to keep our #canoe after our house move.

Arrived at #PrestonBrook yesterday and promptly #smashed the #car while reversing into the balustrade on the #canal bridge. (pictures later)

But its good to see the reflection of the canal on the #cottage #ceiling.

We had a #coal delivery today. Excellent price too, so I must put in a good word for Liam at " #Midlands & #Coastal #Canal Carriers".

Happened to spot them delivering to the house next to the cottages in our terrace.

Of course, the #Bridgewater Canal was built back in the 1770s specifically to carry coal, so it seems appropriate to use it to deliver to our 1845, canal worker's cottage.

The picture was taken as they reversed back through #PrestonBrook bridge to the wharf where they are based.

Yesterday we packed the car again and set off with another load of #furniture, only some of it #flatpack, and other supplies to make the #cottage in #PrestonBrook habitable.

Guess who got in #trouble when unloading the car at our destination? My #excuse is there's 30 yards of muddy #towpath to walk along to reach the cottage.

The day after we arrived at #PrestonBrook I managed to rebuild all the furniture we'd taken to the #cottage

By the end of the next day, we'd done some more #IKEA #shopping and there was a single bed in the second bedroom.

I've been a bit quiet as we've been away. This was the car just before we left for a #cottage at #PrestonBrook fronting the #towpath on the #Bridgewater #canal.

There's deconstructed #Ikea and #wayfair furniture in there as the place needed to be furnished.

📍: Bridge 155, Forge Bridge
ℹ️: track bridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.1298290752686&mlon=-2.38066057393854#map=17/53.1298290752686/-2.38066057393854
📸: Photo by Wildlife Terry on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/44510888@N05/28779734385

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