Gig Hall Bridge on the River Dane, Heaton
This area of the Dane Valley at Dane Bridge has long been popular with day trippers, tourists and walkers. It is here at Gig Hall that the flow of water from the River Dane is split, one feeder canal ...
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 ...
Goodwin's Potters Millers on the Caldon Canal, Hanley
George Goodwin & Sons Westwood Mills site on the banks of the Caldon Canal just off Lichfield Street in the Eastwood area of Hanley. The company was founded in 1848 and had mills at Consall and Cheddleton. ...
Great Beauty and Great Riches - A pamphlet concerning the proposed Grand Commercial Canal, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
A frustrating meeting has taken place at the Star and White Hart Inn, Uttoxeter.
Supporters of a scheme to build a new canal in Staffordshire have grown weary of attempts to discredit their project ...
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 Canal Junction
A view looking west along the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, taken from the bridge at the junction with the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood.
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 ...
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. ...
Grimwades' Pottery, Liverpool Road, Stoke-on-Trent
In the centre of the photograph is Grimwade's Stoke Pottery with its chimneys and kilns. The white, two storey building to the right of the pottery is on the bank of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Shelton ...
Harecastle railway tunnel from Hollywall Lane, Tunstall
Looking westwards from Hollywall Lane towards the southern entrance of the Harecastle railway tunnels (immediately behind the first pylon). On the skyline to the right is the pillar of the Wedgwood Monument ...
Harecastle tunnel, Chatterley, Tunstall
The southern entrance to Harecastle Telford tunnel, showing the fan house (built 1954) at the tunnel portal. the fan house ventilated the tunnel allowing internal combustion engines to be used instead ...
Harecastle Tunnel, Kidsgrove
Photograph shows a narrowboat emerging from the south end of the Harecastle Tunnel.
Harecastle Tunnel, Kidsgrove
A working narrowboat, butty boat and crew entering the northern entrance to the Telford Harecastle tunnel. The butty boat has AC0 Ltd printed on the tarpaulin.
The very busy Brindley Tunnel could only ...
Harecastle tunnels, Chatterley, Tunstall
The southern entrance to Harecastle tunnels, pictured before the fan house was built. The Brindley tunnel is on the left, with the Telford tunnel to the right. The North Staffordshire Railway line is ...
Harecastle Tunnels, Kidsgrove
The northern entrance to the Harecastle tunnels showing Telford's tunnel on the left. The overhead cable for the electric tug can be seen. A narrow boat has been moored to prevent access to the closed ...
Harecastle Tunnels, Kidsgrove
N.S.R. engineering narrowboat moored alongside the towpath between the Brindley legging tunnel and the Thomas Telford additional parallel tunnel with towpath. A working narrowboat, J. & G. Meakin's ...
Harecastle Tunnels, Kidsgrove
The Brindley (on the right) and Telford (on the left) canal tunnels can be seen here. The Brindley canal tunnel was designed by James Brindley and was opened in 1777. The tunnel took many years to complete ...