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The National Waterways Museum (NWM) is in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, at the northern end of the Shropshire Union Canal where it meets the Manchester Ship Canal (grid reference). The NWM's collections and archives focus on the Britain's navigable inland waterways, including its rivers and canals , and include canal boats , traditional ...
The museum opened in 1988. Formerly known as the "National Waterways Museum, Gloucester", it was one of three museums operated by the Waterways Trust that focussed on the history of canals in Britain. The museum went through extensive refurbishments between 2007 and 2008, adding new galleries. [1] In the summer of 2010 the Gloucester site was ...
National Waterways Museum: Ellesmere Port: Transport: Canal boats, history of the canals [3] Nether Alderley Mill: Nether Alderley: Mill: Victorian water-powered corn mill; operated by the National Trust [31] Norton Priory Museum: Runcorn: Religious: 12–16th-century abbey and 18th-century country house with ruins, archaeological artifacts and ...
The museum was established in 1963, [2] as "The Canal Museum". It was founded by two canal workers and enthusiasts, Charles N. Hadlow, the first curator, and Jack James, its first caretaker, whose personal collections formed the main part of its initial exhibits.
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The concept of a National Waterways Conservancy [3] was first championed and articulated in the 1960s by Robert Aickman, the co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association, as a way to secure the future of Britain's threatened inland waterways network.
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