Caldon Canal at Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
The lower lock (of five) on the Caldon Canal at Stockton Brook. These locks lift the canal to its summit level. The lock overflow is at the left edge of the photograph and Stockton Brook waterworks is ...
Caldon Canal from Bedford Street bridge, Hanley
Looking south along the Caldon Canal from the bridge at Bedford Street. On the left is the edge of large Bedford earthenware works operated by Ridgways. The tall building in the centre of the photograph ...
Caldon Canal from near Botteslow Street bridge, Hanley
The camera is looking east from the Caldon Canal towpath near Botteslow Street road bridge. The row of buildings on the left are the rear of Elijah Cotton's Nelson Pottery works. On the right was the ...
Caldon Canal in Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent
The bridge carries the original North Staffordshire Railway Stoke to Leek and Biddulph Valley lines over the Caldon Canal near Abbey Hulton. The line has been dismantled and is now a footpath and cycleway. ...
Caldon Canal in Hanley Park
Hanley Park opened in 1897, covering nearly 65 acres (25 hectares) and was designed by Thomas Mawson who also laid out Burslem Park. He laid the park out on what was known as "Stoke Fields", an area ...
Caldon Canal near Lichfield Street, Stoke-on-Trent
This picture shows the Caldon Canal running past a pottery factory near Lichfield Street in Stoke-on-Trent. Canals were a very important means of transporting raw materials and finished ceramic products: ...
Caldon Canal near Pyenest Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Taken from close to the Stoke Road (A5006) bridge, the camera is looking west along the Caldon Canal. In the distance is one of the now demolished gas holders of the Etruria Gas Works on Etruscan Street. ...
Caldon Canal, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This narrow boat on the Caldon Canal near Etruria would have been used to transport coal. The canal system in the Potteries was once the main source of transport for large quantities of heavy goods.
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Caldon Canal, near Lichfield Street, Stoke-on-Trent
A potbank alongside the Caldon Canal.
Canal at Great Haywood. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood, Staffordshire.
Canal bridge at Ivy House Road, Hanley
A wooden lift bridge over the Caldon Canal in Hanley. Lift bridges were counter-weighted and usually operated manually or by using a windlass. This bridge has been replaced by a permanent structure.
Canal cottage on Stanley Road, Stockton Brook
A local stone cottage on the north side of the Caldon Canal on Stanley Road in Stockton Brook. The canal and Top Lock (number 9) is just off the left hand edge of the photograph. External stone steps ...
Canal lift bridge, Ivy House Road, Hanley
This lift or draw bridge (number 11) carries Ivy House Road over the Caldon Canal. Over the bridge to the left, and alongside the canal, was J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery. Demolished in 2005, the land ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Consall Forge. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Caldon Canal at Consall Forge, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall Mill Bridge. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of Consall Mill Bridge spanning the Caldon Canal at Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.