Sheet Stores Basin (Wyvern Marine)
Introduction
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Sheet Stores Basin (Wyvern Marine)
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 1 Jan 2018
The basin started life in 1840 when it was built by the Midland Counties Railway as a transfer point for coal from the Erewash Canal onto the railway for onward transit. By the 1850s the coal traffic had decreased and it was developed as a central manufacturing and storage base for the tarpaulins used on railway trucks, from which the name Sheet Stores evolved. It now provides a small set of moorings and also a boatbuilding yard.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.88417
Longitude
-1.278915