Horninglow Wharf, Burton upon Trent
Warehouses at Horninglow Wharf on the Trent and Mersey Canal. Built as a salt warehouse for the North Staffordshire Railway.
Horse drawn narrowboat, Caldon Canal
A working narrowboat being pulled along by a horse and driver, on the Caldon Canal between Consall Forge and Froghall.
Horseley Bridge & Thomas Piggott Ltd., Tipton
An aerial view of the Horseley Bridge & Thomas Piggott Ltd. factory, Horseley Heath, Tipton, looking east. The road crossing the canal branch in the foreground is Horseley Road. The factory has been ...
House at Crowgutter, Consall
This house stood on the site of Crowgutter Mill on the Caldon Canal. The wooden crane is a relic of the canal. Crwogutter Mill had been a flint mill but was disused by 1900.
Photograph from the B. ...
Howson's Pottery on the Caldon Canal, Hanley
This photograph shows the rear of G. Howson's Eastwood pottery works on the Caldon Canal. George Howson's produced sanitary ware in Hanley between 1867 and 1966, when then factory was sold to Armitage ...
Hyde Lock, near Kinver
Hyde Lock near Kinver, number 12 on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772.
Inland Navigation - Pamphlet
This pamphlet, entitled Inland Navigation, outlines the contribution of the Trent and Mersey Canal to the relief of the poor in Stoke-on-Trent.
Should the canal be exempt from payment?
Often when ...
It's A Pretty Thing - Stoke-on-Trent! Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial landscape taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This image, with its damning caption, is one of many where Blake is critical of the conditions created in the city by the pottery industry.
Note: ...
J J West, Crate makers, Navigation Road, Middleport
J J West & Sons were crate makers for the pottery industry, operating a crate yard in Navigation Road alongside the short Burslem Branch Canal. This was a short (1/2 mile) branch coming off the Trent ...
James Brindley
James Brindley (1716-1772) was a civil engineer and was a pioneering builder of canals. His engineering works include the Bridgewater Canal which links Manchester and Liverpool, the Trent and Mersey ...
Jesse Shirley's Bone and Flint Mill, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking from the Lower Bedford Street bridge along the Trent & Mersey canal towards Etruscan Bone & Flint Mill. The canal bends left, to the right is a small canal basin for the mill. The mill was built ...
Johnson's Imperial Pottery and the Caldon Canal, Hanley
Looking west along the Caldon Canal with Johnson Brothers' Imperial Pottery on the left hand side. The Eastwood earthenware works is on the other side. In the distance is Lichfield Street bridge. Charles ...
Joule's Ale Stores, Stone
Joule's brewery's Newcastle Street Ale Stores and bottling plant, facing the Trent and Mersey Canal. Built in 1881.
Francis Joule came into possession of the White House Inn and brewhouse at Stone ...
Junction of the Caldon and Trent & Mersey Canals at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the junction of the Trent & Mersey Canal (to the right) with the Caldon Canal (left) at Etruria.
On the right is the summit lock (lock 40) of the Trent & Mersey Canal, which at ...
Junction of Trent and Mersey and Newcastle under Lyme Canals, Stoke upon Trent
This photograph, taken from Glebe Street bridge, shows the junction of the Newcastle under Lyme Canal (left) with the Trent and Mersey Canal. The camera is looking towards Etruria; the gas holders in ...
Kinfare Bridge
Kinfare Bridge is number 29 on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772. It has a separate tunnel for the towpath and has been widened ...
Kingsley - Bridge at Froghall: sepia drawing
'Bridge at Frogall Chain near Kingsley, Staffordshire,' showing a substantial bridge [over a canal.]'J. C. Buckler.'
Kingsley Banks. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Kingsley Banks and a narrow boat on the Caldon Canal at Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.