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August 2015

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Silverdale Holiday

Ulverston, Cumbria. Tue 25 Aug 2015

  
 
 The lock into Morecambe Bay could only hold boats up to 100ft long and 27 ft wide, and the draught was limited

 depending on the height of the high tide to between 7.5 and 12.5 ft. Until the railway came to Ulverston in 1846

 the safest route to Ulverston was by boat, with the only roads involving a dangerous route across Morecambe Bay

 and the Cartmel sands at low tide. A passenger service ran to Liverpool along the canal from 1835 and when

 this was superceded by the railway the canal lost much of its takings. Ulverston declined in importance as a

 port as Barrow-in Furness developed, and the canal saw little use after the end of the First World War.

 As well the bridge for the Furness line, there is also a disused railway over a swing bridge to the industrial area

The North Lonsdale Iron and Steel Company built their ironworks here in 1874, but used piers on the estuary side of the site to take out iron
 
Glaxo bought the site after the ironworks closed.The steelworks was demolished in 1946 and the Glaxo factory opened in 1948 

Glaxo opened their factory as their UK site for the manufacture of penicillin 

GlaxoSmithKline announced in 2012 it would invest it would invest £500 million in a new biotech plant at Ulverston 

The Leven viaduct from the mouth of the canal where we ate our sandwiches. 

Another train in the viaduct 

 

One lock gate is now only skeletal 

and the channel is badly silted. It and parts of the approaches needed constant dredging when the canal was in use 

 

Pier at Hammerside next to the canal mouth 

 

view from the pier 
   

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