Description:This scene is much changed today. The picture was taken by the staircase lock (where one lock goes directly into the next lock) on the Caldon Canal.
The canal swings around to the left and meets the Trent & Mersey Canal at the Summit Lock.
The steel works have long since disappeared, and the large brick wall has also gone and the area landscaped and opened to the public. Just behind the wall once stood the area first ever hospital. Later, it was moved about 300 yards away to the bottom of Clough Street, about middle right in the pictre. Later still it was moved to its present site at Hartshill.
Tha Caldon Canal had a lucky reprieve. In the early 1960s it was closed and a sign posted here telling boaters that it was no longer possible to navigate it. But pressure from boaters managed to get the waterway repaired and maintained.
Today it is very popular with boaters, walkers and cyclists who make the 17 mile trip to Froghall Basin in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
File name: Trent Mersey Canal & Shelton Bar c1970