Canal Boat Fender - Luddendenfoot, UK
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This sculpture next to the tow path on the Rochdale Canal, is a model of a rope boat fender used on canal boats.
Waymark Code: WMPCCF
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/08/2015
Views: 1
The Rochdale Canal was opened in 1804 and connected the City of Manchester in Lancashire with the town of Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire.
Although only 32 miles long the canal crossed the Pennine Hills and as a consequence had 92 locks. In order to protect both the locks and the canal boats, coils of thick ropes called fenders were attached to the boats which acted as bumpers.<br
These days only leisure boats use the canal, but the boats still use rope fenders.
There is an information board near to the sculpture which has photos of old working boats showing the fenders, and also a diagram of the construction of a canal boat.
Title: Fender, Pool and Splice
Artist: Joss Smith
Placement Date: December 2013
Website: [Web Link]
Type of Object: A rope fender (bumper) from a canal boat.
Location: On the tow path on the Rochdale Canal Next to Boy Bridge
Material: Kilkenny Limestone
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