Latchford waterside housing, The Timbers, Sneha House, beside the Manchester Ship Canal, showing Knutsford Road and disused rail bridge, locks

Latchford waterside housing, The Timbers, Sneha House, beside the Manchester Ship Canal, showing Knutsford Road and disused rail bridge, locks Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2PHEJXB

File size:

97.6 MB (5.6 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

9066 x 3762 px | 76.8 x 31.9 cm | 30.2 x 12.5 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

27 March 2023

Location:

Old Station Gardens, Station Rd, Warrington WA4 1DF

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. An on-location photograph from Old Station Gardens, Station Rd, Warrington WA4 1DF in 2023, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The frame specifically shows Latchford waterside housing, The Timbers, Sneha House, beside the Manchester Ship Canal, showing Knutsford Road and disused rail bridge, locks. The broader subject matter reaches into commuter travel, regional rail, archival record, period detail, industrial waterway history, passenger railway, integrated transport, public transport network, managed navigation, historical comparison, mass transit, rail infrastructure, towpath landscape, and everyday life. From a 2025-onward perspective, station investment and fares are closely linked to this subject, alongside the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s. The wider contemporary story combines heritage conservation, climate adaptation and the cost of keeping ageing locks and canal structures operational. Future viewers can use this scene from Old Station Gardens, Station Rd, Warrington WA4 1DF to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after redevelopment. The surrounding story also includes local character, inland boating, public realm, navigation engineering, heritage boating, before-and-after reference, canal infrastructure, and inland navigation. The combination of disused, showing, Timbers, waterside, and beside anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within Old Station Gardens, Station Rd, Warrington WA4 1DF, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another strand within the photograph is station investment and how rail stations anchor city-centre mobility and regeneration in a form that can be compared with future views of Old Station Gardens, Station Rd, Warrington WA4 1DF.