An Address to the Public in Answer to the Case of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Controversial Proposals
The Trent and Mersey Canal Company has recently issued controversial proposals to build a reservoir and extend a branch canal to Leek.
This pamphlet, sent to Enoch Wood's ...
At the Roe-Buck in Newcastle - Minutes of a Meeting to discuss the building of new branch canals. From the Enoch Wood scrapbook.
At the Roe-Buck in Newcastle a group of prominent men have gathered to discuss the plans for new branch canals connecting Hanley, Shelton, Burslem and Lane End.
The men include local pottery manufacturers ...
Comparative Calculations - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During 1796, a fierce debate was raging in Stoke-on-Trent over controversial proposals to build a new canal.
The new canal promised to link Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire with the Cheshire Canal ...
Extracts from an Act of Parliament of the Sixth Year of the Reign of George the Third - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
When a committee of manufacturers in Stoke, Burslem and Wolstanton put their weight behind a scheme to build a new canal, they published a series of legal extracts 'so that all may know the law' and 'that ...
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 ...
Meeting to discuss a new canal from the Trent to the Mersey
A meeting to discussed a proposed new canal linking the Trent and Mersey has been rescheduled.
It will now take place at midday on 1 June 1796, at the Roebuck in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
This notice ...
Proposed Commercial Canal - Declaration from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views.
At this time, the committee were taking on a weighty opponent, ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
The Intended Commercial Canal - Minutes of a meeting at the White Hart and Star Inn, Uttoxeter. From the Enoch Wood scrapbook
An ambitious new project has begun in Staffordshire - outlined at a meeting at the White Hart and Star Inn, Uttoxeter.
A transport revolution
A proposed new canal promises to transform the transport ...
What now for the Grand Commercial Canal? A document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During 1796, supporters of a scheme to build a new super canal in Staffordshire locked horns with the established businessmen of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company.
The new canal
The new canal was ...