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In April 1950 Peter Scott set off aboard Beatrice on a combined campaign voyage and lecture tour for the Severn Wildfowl Trust that was to take him north to Liverpool, across the Mersey to the Manchester Ship Canal and back to Slimbridge by a different route. He was accompanied on this voyage by various leading IWA figures including Robert Aickman.
In March 1968 the Bulletin reported "Members will know that the Manchester Ship Canal Company have imposed a heavy toll on the use of Hulme Lock. Our North Western Branch is very concerned at this: in order to strengthen our hand in negotiations with the Company it would be most helpful if we had full details of previous charges paid by Members when passing through the lock. Anyone who has taken a boat through the lock, particularly outside normal hours, during the last three years should please send full details, as soon as possible to Mr. A. Swaiwell, 7 Abbey Grove, Eccies, Manchester. This is important: we can't afford to lose another access to the Manchester Ship Canal".
The new Pomona Lock opened in 1995 replacing Hulme Lock as the link between the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal. Irlam lock
In 1998 IWA National Festival was held at Salford Quays on the Manchester Ship Canal. The event attracted 32,000 visitors and about 300 boats, over a hundred of which had come up the the ship canal and 27 had crossed the Mersey from Liverpool.
The photograph shows some of the boats on the way to the festival in Irlam Lock.
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