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 ...
Anderton Boat Lift, Northwich
The Anderton Boat Lift is a two caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in north-west England. It provides a 50-foot (15.2 m) vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River ...
Anderton Canal Carriers Wharf, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph shows two important sites on the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. In the centre is the Anderton Canal Company's warehouse and boat repair yard and beyond Burgess & Leigh's Middleport ...
Anderton Canal Co. Wharf, Navigation Road, Middleport
This photograph was taken just off the southern end of Navigation Road in Middleport. This was at the northern end of the half mile Burslem Branch Canal which came off the Trent & Mersey Canal. The branch ...
Anderton canal wharves, Middleport
The camera is looking northwards along the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. The buildings on the right belonged to the Anderton Canal Company who were one of the three main carriers serving the Potteries ...
Anderton Carrying Company - document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In the spring of 1838, James Macintyre, Agent for the Anderton Carrying Company, wrote this confident letter to Staffordshire's pottery manufacturers to celebrate his canal company's success.
He announced ...
Arthur Wood's canalside factory, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view south along the canal. Westport Lake is off to the right, on the left is the rear of Wood's pottery. the buildings have all been cleared and the are now used for light industry and food ...
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 ...
Boathorse Lane Valley and Line Houses, Tunstall
The view in a northerly direction from Hollywall Lane towards Line Houses. The Harecastle railway tunnels run beneath the fields in the foreground and a ventilator shaft can be seen in the left centre. ...
British Waterways Depot, Burslem Branch Canal, Burslem
British Waterways was the authority responsible for maintaining the majority of canals in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1962 it became the Canal & River Trust in 2012. This depot was at the far end of ...
Burgess & Leigh, Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent
Burgess & Leigh built the Middleport Pottery alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in 1888-89 and it is the only complete working Victorian pottery left in Stoke-on-Trent (2o18). Traditional pottery works ...
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 ...
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 ...
Copeland House, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent.
A view west along Copeland Street from near Glebe Street. On the right are houses numbered 3 to 7. Number 5 was Copeland House. Copeland House was built by the Copeland pottery firm as a residence for ...
Doulton Sanitary Ware Pottery, Fenton
This photograph shows the Doulton Sanitary Potteries works which fronted into the Trent & Mersey Canal. The photograph was taken from the Whieldon Road bridge over the canal, looking southwards. The ...
Doulton's sanitary ware pottery, Fenton
Doulton's Sanitary ware works alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal and Whieldon Road was originally the Colonial Pottery belonging to Winkle & Wood, producing a wide range of earthenware. This photograph ...
Dunn & Bennett's Dalehall canal side works, Middleport
the photograph shows the back of Dunn & Bennett's Dalehall Works on the Trent & Mersey canal in Middleport.
Dunn & Bennett started producing earthenware and ironstone in Burslem in the 1870s. The Dalehall ...
Eastwood Works, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
This is the Eastwood pottery works in Stoke-on-Trent which was owned by J. & G. Meakin.
The company was well known for its ironstone china and white granite ware, much of which was sold in America ...