Entries for the tag ‘Aire and Calder Navigation’
Canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in the West Riding, built 1699-1905. 
- 9 June 1758: Entry into law of the first dedicated railway enabling act, for Richard Humble and Charles Brandling’s wagonway from Middleton Colliery to the Aire at Leeds
- 19 October 1816: Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate the completion, after almost 50 years, of the canal uniting east and west
- 6 July 1831: “190 boats stranded in the Selby Canal by the Aire and Calder Company’s denial of water”, favouring the new Knottingley-Goole cut
- 18 July 1848: The sanitation committee of Bradford Council experience the use of iron(III) chloride and iron(II) sulphate as sewage deodorants
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