THE Bridgewater Canal Company is to close the Bridgewater Canal for an entire four months, starting next Monday, 2nd November.
Though boaters with a Bridgewater Canal licence will be aware of the closure, boater Stephen Fahey tells us that those with a CaRT licence may not be aware and could be stranded either side of the stoppage which is in the Worsley area.
Safety gates
It is the installation of safety gates at Worsley, that the Bridgewater Canal Company states that the canal 'will be closed to all navigation during the course of the works'.
No explanation is given as to why it will take such a long period to install the gates, only that the period is programmed from the 2nd November at 8.00am until Monday 29th February at 12 noon, with the warning that it even then cannot guarantee the completion date.