Caldon Canal, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This narrow boat on the Caldon Canal near Etruria would have been used to transport coal. The canal system in the Potteries was once the main source of transport for large quantities of heavy goods.
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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 ...
Caldon Canal, near Consall
A wooden drawbridge on the Caldon Canal , between Cheddleton and Consall. The Caldon Canal was engineered by James Brindley and opened in 1777 as far as Froghall Wharf.
Caldon Canal, near Lichfield Street, Stoke-on-Trent
A potbank alongside the Caldon Canal.
Canal and Locks, Great Haywood
The lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal by Trent Lane in Great Haywood, with the lock keeper's cottage on the right. This was later (until 2017) the Lock House Restaurant and Tea Rooms.
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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 and River Sow, Milford
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Milford at the point where it crosses the River Sow via an aqueduct.
A 'Teesee' postcard published by E.J. Garside, Rock House, Milford.
Canal at Great Haywood. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood, Staffordshire.
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 basin, Penkridge
Looking north along the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Penkridge Wharf.
Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland.
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, 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
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 Bridge at Chillington, near Brewood
This bridge, number 32 on the Shropshire Union Canal, is the most ornamental canal bridge in Staffordshire. It carries the Avenue as it approaches Chillington Hall.