{"id":292,"date":"2017-05-07T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/?p=292"},"modified":"2017-05-09T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:37:38","slug":"canal-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Canal Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as I need to be in easy reach of the hustle and bustle of the city, I take equal pleasure in a quiet wander through the countryside. \u00a0Although I was born in an urban town my childhood was spent whiling away the days in amongst the flora, fauna and mud of 'The Dingle', part Reddish Vale to which we had access from the top of the road I grew up in. \u00a0Those memories of fun, freedom, blankets of bluebells in the spring and conker collecting in the autumn have remained. \u00a0I'm lucky now to live opposite the Bridgewater Canal and a few minutes walk from the Trans Pennine Trail and, at the very least a saunter to Dunham Massey is within easy reach. \u00a0Unusually, we recently took a 'right turn' onto the towpath for a slightly more industrial alternative to our regular wanders around Dunham\u00a0to check up on the progress of the new housing development on the historically significant site of the Linotype building. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The L&M building is of huge historical significance locally and industrially. \u00a0Linotype transformed the newspaper industry and the Linotype and Machinery Company opened its Broadheath factory in 1897. \u00a0Inspired, probably by Port Sunlight and Bourneville the company built houses, tennis courts, bowling greens, a cricket ground, children's playground and allotments for its 10,000 employees. \u00a0The houses are still there, part of a conservation area, with the roads - Lawrence, Lock, Pollen, Bemrose, Place and Weldon named after directors of the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as I need to be in easy reach of the hustle and bustle of the city, I take equal pleasure in a quiet wander through the countryside. \u00a0Although I was born in an… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jujoos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}