Cottonopolis · event 10 of 12

1894

The Ship Canal. After six years of digging, ocean-going ships sail thirty-six miles inland to Salford. Manchester — a city with no coastline — becomes Britain’s third busiest port, and stops paying Liverpool’s dock dues. Neither city has forgotten.

The Cottonopolis era

  1. 1761
  2. 1781
  3. 1804
  4. 1830
  5. 1838
  6. 1853
  7. 1857
  8. 1858
  9. 1877
  10. 1894
  11. 1900
  12. 1906

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