Essays Tagged: "Leeds-Liverpool Canal"

Transport and logistics

boasts one of the wonders of the waterway age in Five Rise Locks (1774), which raises boats on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal up sixty feet in five steps. The attraction is visited traditionally, by peopl ...

(57 pages) 448 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Bradford in the Industrial Revolution How did it change? What were the conditions like? Technological developments? What is Bradford like today?

nk in Bradford opened in 1771. Bradford canal was built in 1774 and in 1777 it was connected to the Leeds-Liverpool canal. The improvement in communications boosted industry in the town. In 1793 a Pie ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History