Description:A fine view of the staircase lock on the Caldon Canal at Etruria.
In the background, top left, is Shelton Steel Works. Background top right can just be made out a large building that is the Little Sisters of the Poor.
The works that are in the right of the picture have gone and houses are now on this site.
The canal swings round to the left and joins the Trent & Mersey Canal. Etruria Industrial Museum is here too, and boasts a circa 1826 beam engine that is fired with a circa 1903 Cornish type boiler that once belonged to Tunstall swimming baths (demolished in the 1980s). It is part of Jessie Shirley's bone & flint grinding operation that is still carried on today. The museum offers a facinating insight into raw material production for the pottery industry.
The areas first hospital once stood near the large wall in this picture.
File name: Trent Mersey Canal Etruria