Manchester Ship Canal and the Rise of the Port of Manchester 1894-1975 - Hardcover

Farnie, D.A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071900795X ISBN 13: 9780719007958

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1986

Synopsis

As a feat of engineering and of civic enterprise the Manchester Ship Canal has never lacked recognition. At one stroke is created a new inland port whose aim was no less than to surpass Liverpool, the greatest in the Kingdom. Powerful vested interests were bound to fight to deny it traffic: what happened after it was built, and the returns for those who backed it with faith and money, as well as for the region as a whole, have never been examined. The canal's history has been closely involved with the great staples of world trade, cotton in the 19th century, oil in the 20th. Designed to link Cottonopolis with its markets in Asia, it also established a thriving commerce with America. It led direct to the founding of a major steamship company and to the creation of the world's first and largest industrial estate at Trafford Park. These developments are seen here for the first time in their interrelated context. In tracing the economic history of the canal and port, with their effect on the region, Dr Farnie has used the unpublished manuscript sources of the companies concerned. Attractively Illustrated, the book is intended not only for social and economic historians, but for those interested in the history of the north-west who may not have realised the full extent of the canal's ramifications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071900795X
• ISBN 13: 9780719007958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198