Canal boat, Shebdon Bridge
A postcard advertising Waterborne Tours showing one of the company’s boats on the Shropshire Union Canal at Shebdon Bridge, near High Offley.
Waterborne Tours had offices at the Canal Wharf, Penkridge ...
Canal Boats In The Potteries
A pottery works fireman remembers the people on the working canal boats:-
They’d moor the boat at the side of a firm, and they’d come on site and say “Have you got a bucket of coal?”. Because they’d ...
Canal bridge at Ivy House Road, Hanley
A wooden lift bridge over the Caldon Canal in Hanley. Lift bridges were counter-weighted and usually operated manually or by using a windlass. This bridge has been replaced by a permanent structure.
Canal Bridge near Hatherton
A typical bridge on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772.
Canal bridge, Cowley, Gnosall
Cowley Double Road Bridge from the south, bridge no.31 on the Shropshire Union Canal. It is sited south of Gnosall.
From the County Archaeology photograph collection held at Staffordshire Record Office....
Canal Bridge, Great Haywood
Postcard view of the towpath alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal at Great Haywood, looking south. The iron bridge seen in the picture carried the drive from Shugborough Hall to Little Haywood over the ...
Canal Bridge, Trent Lane, Great Haywood
The lock and bridge on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Trent Lane in Great Haywood. To the left is the Lock Keeper's house (The Lockhouse Tea Rooms in 2003). Shugborough Hall and the Essex Bridge are to ...
Canal in winter, Drayton Bassett
Looking south along the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal towards the Turret Footbridge, Drayton Bassett. This unusual bridge dates from the late 18th century and is a high iron footbridge reached by stairs ...
Canal junction, Great Haywood
View of the canal bridge and wharf from the Trent and Mersey Canal; the bridge marks junction of the canal with the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal.
The building on the far left was a corn mill, ...
Canal Junction, Great Haywood
A postcard view of a quiet scene looking towards the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire and the Trent and Mersey Canals at Great Haywood.
This postcard was published by The Francis Frith ...
Canal Lock and Bridge, Stockton Brook
In the past, when river transport was a popular means of transport, the Caldon Canal was a busy place. The canal served the Churnet Valley and surrounding districts, and one of the main type of traffic ...
Canal scene at Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton
The building on the left is the Union Flour Mill. Situated on the Birmingham Canal Navigations Mainline, the steam-powered mill commenced production in 1813. It was owned by the Wolverhampton Flour ...
Canal Scene, Cheddleton
A view taken from the road bridge over the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton Wharf looking eastwards. In the background are the chimneys of Brittain's paper mill.
A paper mill has stood on the present site ...
Canal scene, Froghall, Kingsley
Photograph taken on the Caldon Canal near Thomas Bolton & Sons Ltd. copper works. There is a working narrow boat moored up on the left.
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor ...
Canal Warehouses, Leek
Former warehouses adjacent to the site of the Leek Canal basin, filled in in 1958. The canal would have been where the parked car and lorry are standing.
Image copyright Warrington Museum & Art Gallery....
Canal wharf buildings, Cheddleton
Wharf buildings on the Caldon Canal at 10, Cheadle Road, Cheddleton.
Cheddleton Lock and Wharf
Cheddleton Lock and Wharf on the Caldon Canal, looking towards the road bridge. The building with the tall chimney beyond the bridge was a silk mill.
Cheddleton. Photographed by William Blake.
Canal view including Cheddleton Wharf, Staffordshire.
This view includes a lock, overhead warehouse and bridge situated on the Caldon Canal at Leek Road.