Portland Basin and the Archaeology of the Canal Warehouse

by Michael Nevell, Robina McNeil

The Portland Basin warehouse, as it later became known, was a pioneering building of the Industrial Revolution in northwest England. Built in 1834 it provided a safe storage depot and redistribution centre for a range of goods and raw materials serving the booming cotton town of Ashton-under-Lyne. This first volume in The Archaeology of Tameside series looks at the history of Portland Basin within a local and regional context including a gazetteer of other canal warehouses of the northwest, Recently restored and now a social and industrial history museum, this building represents an important part of the Industrial Revolution in the northwest.

86 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 2001