Talk:Sankey Canal

message: I've removed "but only in St.Helens (the rest of the canal, away from St.Helens, has always been the Sankey Canal)" pending sources being cited. I have never lived in St Helens or elsewhere locally, and have often heard it refered to as the St Helens Canal.
British Waterways refer to "St Helens Canal (Sankey Canal)".
I've also removed the reference to "mainly by misinformed locals", as again no sources are cited, and this has the ring of a local quarrel which has no place here. StephenDawson 11:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 275 calls it "St Helens Canal" all the way to Sankey Bridges; it does not contain the name "Sankey Canal" at all. Local knowledge and personal research have no place in Wikipedia; only published sources. Can we find a published indication that the official name, if there is one, of any stretch is in fact "Sankey Canal"? 24.22.172.60 04:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm wrong; "Sankey Canal" does appear on some stretches in the OS. From St Helens to the disused mine shafts near Ashton's Green it is called "St Helens Canal (dis)"; then "Sankey Brook" as far as the Sankey rail viaduct, and little further; then "Sankey Canal (dis)" from about the Mucky Mountain Nature Reserve down to about Red House Farm; then "Sankey Brook" again as far as the section that curves around Callands, where the current watercourse takes the name "Dallam Brook". The canal bed appears to be dry here, and unnamed, through Sankey Valley Park; then there is a parallel section of (still unnamed) canal alongside "Sankey Brook" again from Bewsey to Sankey Bridges, where it is called "St Helens Canal (dis)" again. So, according to the VERIFIABLE and CITEABLE OS maps, which are available online, it is called "St Helens Canal" at both ends, in St. Helens and where it joins the Mersey, and "Sankey Canal" in the middle section in Great Sankey. 24.22.172.60 05:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: St Helens Canal

message: I have edited and reworded the 'viaduct details' in the 'structures' section, included changes as follows:
* Added a link to the the main Viaduct article in the body of the text not just the photo caption. 
* Corrected "Seven Arches" to  "Nine Arches" which is both what it is known as, and the number arches it has.
* Corrected the construction/completion date to 1980 as this was previously erroneous.
* Removed reference to there being 7 arches and one "iron-girder, which spans over the canal itself"
* Reworked the section which states "not sufficient to allow the masts of the Mersey flats to clear" to state it has 60ft minimum clearance.
* Removed reference to "recesses in the masonry which suggests that originally a drawbridge mechanism to raise the rail-bed"
I can only assume this un-referenced section is the work of fiction, and or, another structure which as been confused.
dhutch (talk) 09:58, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viaduct Details 

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message: From what I can tell there is a single recurring IP user (Jemmy H) with their own POV push. If this is indeed the same user they are asked to cease perpetuating misinformation and utilise reliable sources not their opinion. , ,,,, Koncorde (talk) 23:19, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  St Helens Canal - 2021