Description:This postcard view was taken looking northwest from the tow path near to the Boat Inn Bridge, also known as Wharf Bridge, no. 34, over the Shropshire Union Canal in Gnosall.
In the distance on the left is the canal bridge by the Navigation Inn and centre left are the lime kilns and chimney of the cement works. Henry Newton from Derbyshire was in Gnosall in 1855 advertising his cement, plaster and lime works, later known as the Cement Works, situated by the canal on Mill Lane, between the Boat Inn and the Navigation Inn bridges. Henry Newton died in 1902 and cement manufacturing ceased around 1910. Henry’s son George Newton used the site for several years as a builder's merchants, this later closed and the site was redeveloped as housing known as Waterside Court.
This postcard was franked on 10 March 1906 in Gnosall and sent to an address in Market Drayton.
Thank you to Gnosall History for the additional information.