BLACKBURN was a grimy, smokey,noisy town in the days of the Industrial Revolution;there were 200 chimneys belching smoke and fumes out...but not so today.Enjoy cruising into the East Lancashire countryside,view full album on:
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Leaving Blackburn the canal has few locks but many winding bends through Rishton towards Hapton.There are brick kilns and big holes left by clay mining;in the Industrial revolution there was massive production of Accrington brick exported by the canal to build canalside mills and their housing.Towards Padiham and Burnley there was much quarrying with heavy cargo carried by barges.The Gannow Tunnel goes under a hill emerging in the Weavers Triangle mill area,along the massive embankment out to rural countryside.Thence begins the climb beside lovely Pendle views up Barrowford locks via Foulridge Tunnel to the summit pound some 480ft above sea level .At Barnoldswick we are crossing the Pennines out of Lancashire down into Yorkshire.
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