Meaford Lock, Stone,
In 1831 the section of the Trent and Mersey Canal by Meaford Lock was straightened.
The staircase locks were replaced by three separate locks.
Meaford Locks, Trent & Mersey Canal, near Stone
A tinted postcard view of Meaford Locks published by A.W. Tilley, Newsagent and Stationers of 7 Radford Street, Stone.
In 1831 the section of the Trent and Mersey Canal by Meaford Lock was straightened. ...
Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent
A view of Middleport Pottery from the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Established in 1851, Hulme and Booth's Central Pottery in Burslem was taken over in 1862 by William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess, ...
Milepost, Trent & Mersey Canal, Aston-by-Stone
This milepost at Aston-by-Stone stands exactly halfway between Shardlow and Preston Brook on the Trent & Mersey Canal. It is of of a number of cast iron mileposts made by Rangley and Dixon of Lichfield ...
Milking Bank Bridge and St John the Baptist Church, Armitage
Locally known as Milking Bank Bridge, this is Bridge 61 on the Trent and Mersey Canal near Armitage, currently officially designated as Church Bridge. According the 1842 Tithe Map it was originally known ...
Milking Bank Bridge, Armitage
Milking Bank Bridge on the Trent and Mersey Canal near Armitage. This is Bridge 61, officially designated Church Bridge. The track over the bridge gave access to farmer's fields so Milking Bank Bridge ...
Milking Bank Bridge, Armitage
Locally known as Milking Bank Bridge, this is Bridge 61 on the Trent and Mersey Canal near Armitage, currently officially designated as Church Bridge. According the 1842 Tithe Map it was originally known ...
Milking Bank Bridge, Armitage
Milking Bank Bridge on the Trent and Mersey canal, Armitage.
Published by R. Evans, Newsagent, Armitage with Handsacre. Printed by the R.A.P. Co. Ltd., Reigate.
Musk Thistle or Carduus nutans
Musk Thistle is a common biennial found on limestone. The prickly stems are bare for some distance below the solitary nodding flower-heads.
Flowering between May and August, it can grow to a height ...
Narrow boat and crew, Hednesford
Narrow boat and crew on the Birmingham Canal Navigation, Cannock Extension near Hawks Green. The canal served the nearby collieries, East Cannock and LIttleworth for the transportation of coal.
Narrow Boat being drawn by a horse, Brewood area
Narrow Boat, Stoke Wharf.
During the 1960’s the use of inland waterways became a popular past time for pleasure seekers. The Trent & Mersey canal had ceased to be used by commercial traffic in the late 1940’s, and ...
Narrow Boats on the Caldon Canal, Denford
Ice-bound narrow boats on the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal, looking towards the Hazelhurst Turnover Bridge No. 3 . There are three moored working narrow boats two of which have gang planks to the tow ...
Newcastle Under-Lyme Canal in winter
The Newcastle-under-Lyme to Stoke canal photographed a few yards from Clayton Lane Bridge.The Newcastle canal was a 4 mile level canal from the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stoke to Newcastle-under-Lyme.The ...
Nodding Bur-Marigold or Bidens cernua
Nodding Bur-marigold is an annual found by ponds lakes and canals.
Flowering between July and October, it can grow to a height of 60cm.
This example was found growing at Alton in Staffordshire, ...
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 was closed ...
Norton Pool, Norton Canes
Now known as Chasewater, Norton Pool was formed in 1797 by damming two streams: the Crane Brook which flowed into the Tame, and another stream flowing into the Penk, to provide a feeder to the extended ...