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Description: | This early 19th century bridge spanned the Derby canal, and carried traffic to and from the Cattle Market. The canal itself ran in a cast iron troughed aqueduct, at this point, over The Mill Fleam (an old iron age word for 'dyke') at The Holmes in Derby. The aqueduct, completed in 1795, was only the second structure of it's type built on a British waterway (Thomas Telford also used iron sides on his famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales in 1805). All of the structures were demolished in 1970 to make way for Derby's inner ring road. The Derby Canal was commissioned in 1793 and Benjamin Outram was appointed engineer. When the canal was opened in 1796, it was 14 miles long, and ran from a junction with the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre to a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone. The Derby Canal was owned by the Derby Canal Company and was never nationalised. It was abandoned in 1964 but now the Derby Canal Society are trying to restore it. See also DRBY000816 for a picture of the road bridge above this. | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | North East Midland Photographic Record | Source: | Picture the Past OAI feed | Creator: | Nixon, Frank | Identifier: | http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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