Navvies posing for the camera during the excavation works at Acton Grange on the Manchester Ship Canal<br><p>A view along the soft excavation cutting of the Manchester Ship Canal at Acton Grange. A long line of mostly full waggons stretches into the distance with a locomotive on the end. Navvies with their shovels are posing for the camera, some on the waggons with others  on the bottom of the canal. A final group can be seen standing on the canal bank.
</p><p>The caption for the print states:
"Manchester Ship Canal, Length 35 1/2 miles, width on bottom 120 feet, depth of water 28 feet, soft excavation by hand at Acton Grange."<br></p>
Manchester Ship Canal
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