Canal Scene, Kidsgrove
A working narrowboat on the Trent and Mersey Canal leaving the Harecastle Tunnel and heading north at Kidsgrove. The narrowboat belongs to the North Staffordshire Railway Engineers Dept. with the name ...
Canal Scene, Meaford, Stone
A working narrowboat on the Trent and Mersey Canal travelling north towards a bridge near Meaford, Stone.
Canal scene, Willenhall
A photograph of a canal scene taken by Harold Cartwright of Willenhall. It was probably taken somewhere near Willenhall or elsewhere in South Staffordshire.
Canal Strip map, Tamworth
Henry Bradford’s plan of 1758 to make the Tame navigable from Tamworth to Burton by building a series of canals met opposition from landowners. Tamworth was finally linked to the canal network in the ...
Canal view, Aston-By-Stone
The Trent and Mersey Canal near the bridge at Aston-by-Stone, with a canal boat with cargo of wood being towed by horse.
Canal ware painter, Shebdon
Canal ware artist and sign writer Martin 'Bunny' Bunford of Shebdon, near High Offley pictured painting a Buckby can as his dog looks on.
Photographer: Lionel Holland of the StaffordshireNewsletter....
Canal Warehouses, Leek
Former warehouses adjacent to the site of the Leek Canal basin, filled in in 1958. The canal would have been where the parked car and lorry are standing.
Image copyright Warrington Museum & Art Gallery....
Canal wharf buildings, Cheddleton
Wharf buildings on the Caldon Canal at 10, Cheadle Road, Cheddleton.
Canals and war, Tamworth
In 1798 Rev Francis Blick, noted in the parish register the startling sight of 12,000 soldiers passing through Tamworth on canal barges en route to supress a rebellion in Ireland.
Canalware Buckby Can
A 3 gallon Buckby can used to hold fresh water on narrowboats for drinking. It has been painted with traditional 'roses and castles' decoration by Lisa Jenkins of Norbury Junction, Staffordshire.
The ...
Canalware dipper
This type of dipper was used on narrowboats to take water from the canal for cleaning puposes, and for the watering of animals.
Painted in traditional 'roses and castles' decoration by Lisa Jenkins ...
Cannock Extension Canal, near Hednesford
A narrow boat and crew on the Birmingham Canal Navigation, Cannock Extension near Hawks Green. The canal served the nearby East Cannock and LIttleworth collieries for the the transportation of coal.
Postcard ...
Case of the Company of Proprietors of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Canals were among the most impressive - not to mention controversial - engineering enterprises of the 18th century.
In this pamphlet, the Trent and Mersey Canal Company outline their case for creating ...
Castro’s Restaurant, Cheddleton
Castro’s Mexican Restaurant, Cheadle Road, Cheddleton. It stood adjacent to the Caldon Canal on what was the canal wharf servicing the flint mill. It was closed by owner Jamie Bateman in 2020 after almost ...
Cheddleton Lock and Wharf
Cheddleton Lock and Wharf on the Caldon Canal, looking towards the road bridge. The building with the tall chimney beyond the bridge was a silk mill.
Cheddleton Wharf
Cheddleton Wharf on the Caldon Canal. The Flint Mills can be seen beyond the bridge, to the right.
The boat moored to the left bank may have been used for breaking the winter ice on the canal.
Cheddleton Wharf and paper mills
Boats on the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton Wharf.
Cheddleton. Photographed by William Blake.
Canal view including Cheddleton Wharf, Staffordshire.
This view includes a lock, overhead warehouse and bridge situated on the Caldon Canal at Leek Road.