Trentham Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal, Trentham
The photograph shows the lockkeeper's cottage alongside Trentham Lock (lock 35) on the Trent & Mersey Canal. The lock is close to the southern edge of the city, almost opposite Wedgwood's Barlaston works. ...
Trial and execution of two boatmen
An incomplete broadsheet detailing the trial and execution of James Owen and George Thomas, who were convicted at Stafford Assizes for the murder of Christina Collins.
In 1838 Robert Collins, an out ...
Tunstall - Canal Tunnel: woodcut engraving on yellow paper
Showing a canal tunnel with a towing path, [The Harecastle Tunnel]. There is a boat at the entrance to the tunnel and men standing on the towing path.'WHITTOCK [drawn]; WHIMPER [engraved].'
Twyford's Canal Bank Works.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens and a canal.
Taken at Twyford's Canal Bank Works, by the Trent and Mersey canal bridge on Shelton New Road, Nr. Cliff Vale, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken ...
Twyford's Works.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens.
Taken at Twyford's Works, Cliff Vale, Stoke-on-Trent.
The Trent and Mersey canal can be seen in the photograph.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery ...
Twyfords.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens.
Taken at Twyford's, Cliff Vale, Stoke-on-Trent.
The Trent and Mersey Canal can be seen.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection. ...
Visit to Telford Canal tunnel, Kidsgrove
This photograph was taken after a local party had travelled through the Telford Canal Tunnel, one of the Harecastle Tunnels, during the Festival of Britain.
John Evans submitted this information about ...
Wedgwood factory, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph of Wedgwood's original factory next to the Trent and Mersey canal in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent was taken in 1929. The factory was a site of real innovation and invention but was disused ...
Wedgwood's Etruria Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
Josiah Wedgwood's Etruria Works opened in 1769. Importantly, the factory was built on land that Wedgwood knew lay on the route of the proposed Trent & Mersey Canal which was opened in 1777. The factory ...
Weston village, near Stafford
A postcard view taken from in front of the Saracen's Head Inn on Stafford Road, looking towards Boat Lane and the canal bridge. The Inn sign is to the left, and the church spire can be seen beyond.
Published ...
Wharf Street Depot, Stoke on Trent
The Anderton Canal Carrying Company's Wharf Street depot between Bridges 112 and 113 on the Trent and Mersey Canal. On the right is Dolby's potters and millers warehouses and bottle-kiln. The Dolby Pottery ...
Wharf Street Depot, Stoke on Trent
The Anderton Canal Carrying Company's Wharf Street depot and their butty narrowboat 'Winifred' moored by the towpath between Bridges 112 and 113 on the Trent and Mersey Canal. Across the canal there is ...
What now for the Grand Commercial Canal? A document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During 1796, supporters of a scheme to build a new super canal in Staffordshire locked horns with the established businessmen of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company.
The new canal
The new canal was ...
Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery, Middleport
A J Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. The works originated as the Mersey Pottery, operated by Anthony Shaw from around 1860, becoming the property ...
Winkle and Wood Colonial Pottery factory, Stoke-on-Trent
This picture of the Winkle and Wood Colonial Pottery factory on Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent, was taken just prior to its demolition in September 1999. At the bottom of the building you can see a small ...
Wood's canal side pottery, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the rear of Arthur Wood's pottery which was originally part of Longport Pottery. Longport Pottery dates from the 1770s and over time became a large works which occupied the east side ...
Wood's old pottery, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking northwards along the Trent & Mersye Canl with Wood's old pottery on then right hand side. This was originally part of the larger Longport Pottery, dating from the 1770s, which was ...
Woodseat, near Rocester
Woodseat was a late 18th century house, now in ruins. In the foreground is a section of an ornamental lake formed out of the disused Uttoxeter Branch Canal. This was part of the Trent & Mersey Canal ...