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Caldon Canal, Horse Bridge, Longsdon

A postcard view of the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal at Horse Bridge, Longsdon, neer Leek, taken from the bridge which carries Sutherland Road over the canal. The short branch of canal connecting Caldon ...

Canal and railway, South Basin, Hednesford

Working narrow boats with railway rolling stock in the background. The Hednesford Basin was sited at the end of the Cannock extension to the Birmingham Canal Navigations and served the nearby collieries, ...

Canal Basin, 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 closed ...

Canal Boat at Lock, Acton Trussell

A view of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal near Acton Trussell showing a boat pasing through the lock. This postcard view is captioned 'Canal Lock at Acton, Stafford' and was published by ...

Canal boat rally at Hazelstrine,

Stafford Boat Club canal boat rally at Hazelstrine Bridge on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

Canal boat, Shebdon

The canal boat 'Gifford' belonging to canal ware artist and sign writer Martin Bunford of Shebdon, near High Offley pictured on the Shropshire Union Canal. Martin leads the horse and his wife and three ...

Canal boat, Shebdon

The canal boat 'Gifford' belonging to canal ware artist and sign writer Martin Bunford of Shebdon, near High Offley pictured on the Shropshire Union Canal. His wife and three children are on the boat. ...

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

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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 boats, Radford, Stafford

British Waterways boats breaking ice on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal at Radford, near Stafford. A diesel rig pulling three narrow boats and pushing a dredger was used to keep the canal clear ...

Canal bridge and lock, trent Lane, Great Haywood

The lock and bridge on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Trent Lane in Great Haywood. Shugborough Hall and the Essex Bridge are to the right of this picture.

Canal from Nursery Lane Bridge, Hopwas

A posrcard view looking north towards the Birmingham Road Bridge from Dixons or Nursery Lane Bridge over the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, on the route of the Coventry Canal. This postcard was published ...

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 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 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, Aston-by-Stone

This picture shows a tranquil autumn scene on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Aston-by-Stone, a view that has hardly changed over the years. In the distance, beyond the canal bridge is the spire of St. Saviour's ...

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 ...