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Canal Scene, Kidsgrove

A working narrowboat on the Trent and Mersey Canal leaving the Harecastle Tunnel and heading north at Kidsgrove. The narrowboat belongs to the North Staffordshire Railway Engineers Dept. with the name ...

Canal Scene, Meaford, Stone

A working narrowboat on the Trent and Mersey Canal travelling north towards a bridge near Meaford, Stone.

Canal Strip map, Tamworth

Henry Bradford’s plan of 1758 to make the Tame navigable from Tamworth to Burton by building a series of canals met opposition from landowners. Tamworth was finally linked to the canal network in the ...

Canal view, Aston-By-Stone

The Trent and Mersey Canal near the bridge at Aston-by-Stone, with a canal boat with cargo of wood being towed by horse.

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....

Canals and war, Tamworth

In 1798 Rev Francis Blick, noted in the parish register the startling sight of 12,000 soldiers passing through Tamworth on canal barges en route to supress a rebellion in Ireland.

Case of the Company of Proprietors of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

Canals were among the most impressive - not to mention controversial - engineering enterprises of the 18th century. In this pamphlet, the Trent and Mersey Canal Company outline their case for creating ...

Colwich Lock

Looking west into Colwich lock, filling up, on the Trent and Mersey Canal with the railway bridge in the background and the lock-keepers cottage on the right. A North Staffordshire Railway water tower ...

Comparative Calculations - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

During 1796, a fierce debate was raging in Stoke-on-Trent over controversial proposals to build a new canal. The new canal promised to link Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire with the Cheshire Canal ...

Copeland House, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent.

A view west along Copeland Street from near Glebe Street. On the right are houses numbered 3 to 7. Number 5 was Copeland House. Copeland House was built by the Copeland pottery firm as a residence for ...

Doulton Sanitary Ware Pottery, Fenton

This photograph shows the Doulton Sanitary Potteries works which fronted into the Trent & Mersey Canal. The photograph was taken from the Whieldon Road bridge over the canal, looking southwards. The ...

Doulton's sanitary ware pottery, Fenton

Doulton's Sanitary ware works alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal and Whieldon Road was originally the Colonial Pottery belonging to Winkle & Wood, producing a wide range of earthenware. This photograph ...

Dunn & Bennett's Dalehall canal side works, Middleport

the photograph shows the back of Dunn & Bennett's Dalehall Works on the Trent & Mersey canal in Middleport. Dunn & Bennett started producing earthenware and ironstone in Burslem in the 1870s. The Dalehall ...

Eastwood Works, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

This is the Eastwood pottery works in Stoke-on-Trent which was owned by J. & G. Meakin. The company was well known for its ironstone china and white granite ware, much of which was sold in America ...

Etruria Canal and Industrial Site. Photographed by William Blake.

A view of barges on the Trent & Mersey Canal at an industrial site in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Etruria Canal and Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.

View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site, including a steam crane. Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Etruria from the Canal, Stoke-on-Trent

The Trent and Mersey Canal, looking towards Etruria. The two gasometers that dominate the skyline in this photograph were both dismantled by 1991. The left hand tow path is now part of the Festival Park ...

Extracts from an Act of Parliament of the Sixth Year of the Reign of George the Third - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

When a committee of manufacturers in Stoke, Burslem and Wolstanton put their weight behind a scheme to build a new canal, they published a series of legal extracts 'so that all may know the law' and 'that ...