Glascote Bottom Lock, Glascote, Tamworth
A pre World War One sepia photograph of Glascote Bottom Lock and House. The photograph shows Mrs Crowshaw in the distance, the Lock Keepers wife, with her three children in the foreground.
Glascote Bottom Lock, Glascote, Tamworth
Glascote Bottom Lock House with, from left to right, Connie Bristoll, Arthur Crowshaw, Sarah Bristoll (nee Crowshaw), and Dora Crowshaw, standing in front of it. The canal is in the foreground, with the ...
Great Haywood Canal Junction
Photograph of a small cabin cruiser entering the Stafford & Worcestershire Canal at the junction with the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood. To the right can be seen Haywood Mill.
Great Haywood Junction from the bridge over the Staffordshire Worcester canal
A view of Great Haywood Junction taken from the bridge which carries the tow path over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal. This wharf is now (2008) occupied ...
Great willowherb, or Epilobium hirsutum
You can find this perennial plant growing beside ditches, streams and canals, and in the woods.
Flowering between July and August, it can grow to a height of 1.5 metres.
This example was collected ...
Grimwades Ltd, Winton Pottery, Elgin Works, Stoke
Grimwades Ltd.'s pottery factory, a view from the tow path on the Trent and Mersey Canal looking across the railway line. Messrs. Grimwade Brothers established their Winton Pottery (Stoke) in about 1886. ...
Ground-ivy or Glechoma hederacea
Ground-ivy is a common perennial founds in woods and on hedgebanks. Its leaves spread to form mats.
Flowering between March and May, it grows to a height of around 25cm.
This example was found growing ...
Groundsel or Senecio vulgaris var. hibernicus
Groundsel is an abundant annual weed of gardens and waste places.
Flowering all year, it can grow up to a height of 40cm.
This example was found growing at Great Bridgeford in Staffordshire, by ...
Gypsywort or Lycopus europaeus
Gypsywort is a perennial found on river and canal banks and marshy places.
Flowering between June and September, it can grow up to a height of 1m.
This example was found growing at Lower Penn in ...
Harebell or Campanula rotundifolia
Harebell is a perennial found in dry grassy places on poor shallow soils.
Flowering between July and September, it can grow to a height of 25cm.
This example was found growing at Quarnford in Staffordshire, ...
Haywood lock, Great Haywood
A canal boat passing through the lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal by Trent Lane in Great Haywood. The stone canal bridge links Great Haywood (left) with the Essex Bridge and the Shugborough estate ...
Haywood Marina, Great Haywood
View of Haywood Marina from the canal bridge at Haywood Junction. The bridge marks e junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal.
Postcard photographed by Don ...
Hazlehurst Aqueduct, near Endon
The Hazlehurst Aqueduct was built in 1841 to carry the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal over the main branch.
Hazlehurst Canal Junction, near Endon
A winter's view of Hazlehurst Junction, where the Leek branch leaves the main branch of the Caldon Canal. To the left can be seen the towpath bridge of 1842, and in the centre is the lock-keeper's cottage....
Hazlehurst Canal Junction, near Endon
A view of Hazlehurst Junction, where the Leek branch leaves the main branch of the Caldon Canal. To the left can be seen the towpath bridge of 1842, and in the centre is the lock-keeper's cottage.
Hazlestrine canal arm, Stafford
Hazlestrine canal arm had been used to carry clay to, and bricks from the Hazlestrine Brickwork's, linking with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. The disused canal arm has since been developed ...
Heath Bedstraw or Galium saxatile
Heath Bedstraw is perennial of heaths and moors.
Flowering between May and August, it can grow to a height of 20cm.
This example was found growing at Milwich in Staffordshire, by Eric Edees.
About ...
Hedge Bindweed or Calystegia sepium
Hedge Bindweed, also known as Bellbine , is a perennial. It has long stems which climb over other hedgerow vegetation.
Flowering between July and September, its stem can grow up to 3m in length.
This ...