Musk Thistle or Carduus nutans
Musk Thistle is a common biennial found on limestone. The prickly stems are bare for some distance below the solitary nodding flower-heads.
Flowering between May and August, it can grow to a height ...
Narrow boat and crew, Hednesford
Narrow boat and crew on the Birmingham Canal Navigation, Cannock Extension near Hawks Green. The canal served the nearby collieries, East Cannock and LIttleworth for the transportation of coal.
Narrow Boat being drawn by a horse, Brewood area
Narrow Boat, Stoke Wharf.
During the 1960’s the use of inland waterways became a popular past time for pleasure seekers. The Trent & Mersey canal had ceased to be used by commercial traffic in the late 1940’s, and ...
Narrow Boats on the Caldon Canal, Denford
Ice-bound narrow boats on the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal, looking towards the Hazelhurst Turnover Bridge No. 3 . There are three moored working narrow boats two of which have gang planks to the tow ...
Newcastle Under-Lyme Canal in winter
The Newcastle-under-Lyme to Stoke canal photographed a few yards from Clayton Lane Bridge.The Newcastle canal was a 4 mile level canal from the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stoke to Newcastle-under-Lyme.The ...
Nodding Bur-Marigold or Bidens cernua
Nodding Bur-marigold is an annual found by ponds lakes and canals.
Flowering between July and October, it can grow to a height of 60cm.
This example was found growing at Alton in Staffordshire, ...
Norbury Junction,
Norbury Junction was the junction between the Newport and the Liverpool and Birmingham sections of the Shropshire Union Canal.
The Newport branch of the canal was little used after 1920 and was closed ...
Norton Pool, Norton Canes
Now known as Chasewater, Norton Pool was formed in 1797 by damming two streams: the Crane Brook which flowed into the Tame, and another stream flowing into the Penk, to provide a feeder to the extended ...
Nursery Lane, Hopwas
A postcard view looking from the bridge over the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at Nursery Lane, Hopwas. The view is substantially the same today (2023).
Postcard published by J. H. Henton, Hopwas.
Old canal, Meaford, near Stone
This view shows the remains of the original course of the Trent and Mersey Canal near Meaford Locks, just north of Stone. In 1831 the section of the Trent and Mersey Canal by Meaford Lock was straightened. ...
On the Canal, Aston by Stone
The bridge carrying the A51 now crosses this spot, having been built after the Second World War to take traffic away from Aston by Stone and Stone town centre. In the distance can be seen the spire of ...
On the Feeder, Dane Valley
Boating on the canal Feeder near Rushton, which links the River Dane to Lake Rudyard.
Otherton Bridge and Lock, Penkridge
Otherton Bridge stands on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772.
Oxford Ragwort or Senecio squalidus
Oxford Ragwort is an annual, which was introduced to Oxford in 1794. It has since spread to many industrial areas.
Flowering between April and December, it can grow to a height of 30cm.
This example ...
Penkridge canal basin
Penkridge canal basin on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
Penkridge Views
This multi-view postcard shows interesting scenes taken around Penkridge.
Top left: centre right is ‘The Old Cottage’, a 15th century Grade II listed building which stands on the junction of Bellbrook ...
Picnic at Norbury Junction
Norbury Junction was the junction between the Shrewsbury and the Liverpool and Birmingham sections of the Shropshire Union Canal. The Newport branch of the canal was little used after 1920 and was closed ...