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The lift and aqueduct from the top basin

The River Weaver and Brunner Mond factory can be seen behind the lift.

Hotelboats approaching the lift

Snipe & Taurus belonging to Inland Waterways Holiday Cruises about to enter the right hand aqueduct.

Inside the lift

The Edwin Clark trip boat has just entered the lower caisson.

The Edwin Clark

The specially designed trip boat has roof windows to allow passenger to get good views during the lift's operation.

On the way down

The hotelboats of the right are now descending, the trip boat is on its way up to pass them.

Passing boats

The caissons are almost level. The trip boat passengers will leave their boat at the top of the lift, the hotelboat passengers are off for a few days cruise on the River Weaver.

A lift column

The top of one of the cast iron support columns, showing the massive scale of the Victorian engineering.