Bridgewater Canal in England Inside the mid-eighteenth century the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who owned many coal mines in northern England, needed a dependable way to transport his coal for the quickly industrializing city of Manchester. He commissioned the engineer James Brindley to construct a canal for that goal. https://travialist.com/story10494117/the-fact-about-urso-fofo-that-no-one-is-suggesting