Pictured at Library Lock. Area to rear of men is Veevers Wharf. Shop to left Melias shop, shop on right was firstly butchers shop run by ? Uttley and secondly pork butchers shop run by Mark Priestley. Then it became Bon Marche, and latterly Indian…
In the centre of this photograph is the Golden Lion Bridge carrying the Rochdale Road over the canal. These lock gates were later replaced in the 1920s with a guillotine, or vertically rising, gate.