Froghall Tunnel, Caldon Canal
A working narrowboat loaded with limestone leaving Froghall Tunnel on the Caldon Canal. The tunnel had no tow path so boats had to be 'legged' through it.
Froghall Wharf
The inner part of the canal basin at Froghall Wharf. The canal and a boat can just be seen in the bottom right hand corner. Limestone is being loaded from tramway wagons or from the large bank of stone ...
Gailey Pool, near Cannock
The pool is one of three canal-feeding pools or reservoirs at the highest point of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. The pool was engineered by John Robinson McClean and was completed in 1855.
Gailey Wharf
Gailey Wharf stands on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772. The embattled tower is the 18th century Round House, formerly the lock ...
Gailey Wharf
Gailey Wharf stands on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772. The embattled tower is a cottage designed by Brindley. In the foreground ...
Gailey Wharf
19th century Cottages at Gailey Wharf on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
Gailey Wharf
Gailey Wharf stands on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772. The embattled tower is a cottage designed by Brindley. The bridge carries ...
Galton Bridge: zinc lithograph
Shows Galton Bridge which was erected over the Birmingham canal at Smethwick in 1826, seen from the tow path.Inscribed 'GALTON BRIDGE. Erected over the new line of the Birmingham Canal at Smethwick in ...
General view of the Alvecote Works
General view of the Alvecote Works, which were called Tamworth Colliery up until 1948. Coventry Canal and Tamworth Colliery Brickworks can also be seen. This photograph was taken from the drying shed ...
Gig Hall Bridge on the River Dane, Heaton
This area of the Dane Valley at Dane Bridge has long been popular with day trippers, tourists and walkers. It is here at Gig Hall that the flow of water from the River Dane is split, one feeder canal ...
Glascote Bottom Lock, Glascote, Tamworth
A pre World War One sepia photograph of Glascote Bottom Lock and House. The photograph shows Mrs Crowshaw in the distance, the Lock Keepers wife, with her three children in the foreground.
Glascote Bottom Lock, Glascote, Tamworth
Glascote Bottom Lock House with, from left to right, Connie Bristoll, Arthur Crowshaw, Sarah Bristoll (nee Crowshaw), and Dora Crowshaw, standing in front of it. The canal is in the foreground, with the ...
Goodwin's Potters Millers on the Caldon Canal, Hanley
George Goodwin & Sons Westwood Mills site on the banks of the Caldon Canal just off Lichfield Street in the Eastwood area of Hanley. The company was founded in 1848 and had mills at Consall and Cheddleton. ...
Great Beauty and Great Riches - A pamphlet concerning the proposed Grand Commercial Canal, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
A frustrating meeting has taken place at the Star and White Hart Inn, Uttoxeter.
Supporters of a scheme to build a new canal in Staffordshire have grown weary of attempts to discredit their project ...
Great Haywood Canal Junction
Photograph of a small cabin cruiser entering the Stafford & Worcestershire Canal at the junction with the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood. To the right can be seen Haywood Mill.
Great Haywood Canal Junction
A view looking west along the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, taken from the bridge at the junction with the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood.
Great Haywood Junction from the bridge over the Staffordshire Worcester canal
A view of Great Haywood Junction taken from the bridge which carries the tow path over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal. This wharf is now (2008) occupied ...
Grimwades Ltd, Winton Pottery, Elgin Works, Stoke
Grimwades Ltd.'s pottery factory, a view from the tow path on the Trent and Mersey Canal looking across the railway line. Messrs. Grimwade Brothers established their Winton Pottery (Stoke) in about 1886. ...