An Address to the Public in Answer to the Case of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Controversial Proposals
The Trent and Mersey Canal Company has recently issued controversial proposals to build a reservoir and extend a branch canal to Leek.
This pamphlet, sent to Enoch Wood's ...
Anderton Canal Carriers Wharf, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph shows two important sites on the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. In the centre is the Anderton Canal Company's warehouse and boat repair yard and beyond Burgess & Leigh's Middleport ...
Anderton Canal Co. Wharf, Navigation Road, Middleport
This photograph was taken just off the southern end of Navigation Road in Middleport. This was at the northern end of the half mile Burslem Branch Canal which came off the Trent & Mersey Canal. The branch ...
Anderton canal wharves, Middleport
The camera is looking northwards along the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. The buildings on the right belonged to the Anderton Canal Company who were one of the three main carriers serving the Potteries ...
Armitage Church and the Trent & Mersey Canal
St. John's Church, Armitage, with the Trent and Mersey Canal in the foreground. With the exception of the tower, which dates from 1632, the church was rebuilt in 1844-7 in a Norman style, to the designs ...
Armitage Church and the Trent & Mersey Canal
St. John's Church, Armitage, with the Trent and Mersey Canal in the foreground. With the exception of the tower, which dates from 1632, the church was rebuilt in 1844-7 in a Norman style, to the designs ...
Armitage Park and Canal: engraving
'View of Armitage Park and subterraneous canal.' Showing Armitage church in the distance to the left of the canal, and a white villa or lodge in the park. 'Stringer, del.,' [drawn by E. or C. E. Stringer]....
Armitage Tunnel, Trent & Mersey Canal
A short section of tunnel cut through Keuper sandstone beds near Armitage. This stretch of the Trent and Mersey Canal was engineered by James Brindley and opened in 1770.
Bedford Street Lock and Mellor's Millers on the Caldon Canal, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Bedford Street Locks (locks 1 and 2) looking north along the Caldon Canal towards Mellor' Mills wharf and works. The canal bends sharply round to the left towards the ...
Birches Head Road, Caldon Canal, Abbey Hulton, Stoke on Trent
A view north east across the River Trent valley from the Birches Head Road bridge over the Caldon Canal. The buildings in the right centre were Abbey Farm in the 1960s, now Trent Country Club, with Redhills ...
Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, Hopwas
Women walking along the towpath by an icy Birmingham & Fazeley Canal at Hopwas, near Tamworth. Hopwas Wood Bridge is in the background.
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, ...
Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, Hopwas
A woman standing by a Hopwas Wood Bridge over the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal at Hopwas, near Tamworth.
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.
Boatman and family on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Rugeley
Boatyard on the Trent and Mersey Canal, Stone
The canal basin and boatyard on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Stone. These 18th and 19th century buildings are now occupied by the Canal Cruising Company, founded in 1948,.
In the background can be ...
Boys fishing on the Trent and Mersey Canal, Stone
A group of boys fishing near Lime Kiln Lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal, near to Stone Railway Station.
In the distance is a bottle kiln of Taylor and Tunnicliff electrical insulator manufacturers ...
Bridge on the Caldon Canal, Hazelhurst
Canal bridge on the Hazelhurst Aquaduct which takes the Leek Branch over the main Caldon Canal. The Caldon Canal was engineered by James Brindley and opened in 1777 as far as Froghall Wharf.
Bridge over Backfilled Canal, Norbury Junction,
The Newport branch of the Shropshire Union Canal started at Norbury Junction.
This branch of the canal was little used after 1920 and was closed by by Act of Parliament in 1944. It has since been ...
British Waterways Depot, Burslem Branch Canal, Burslem
British Waterways was the authority responsible for maintaining the majority of canals in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1962 it became the Canal & River Trust in 2012. This depot was at the far end of ...