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Revanth Place, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST1 4JD

Shelton New Road Bridge is No 3 across the Caldon Canal.

The derelict site by the Caldon Canal is between Bedford Street and Searle Street.

Looking south-east as the Caldon Canal meanders towards Hanley Park and Stockton Brook. Shelton New Road Bridge is No 3 across the Caldon Canal.

Shelton New Road Bridge is No 3 across the Caldon Canal, looking north-west towards the Beford Street Locks staircase.

Looking south-east as the Caldon Canal meanders towards Hanley Park and Stockton Brook. Shelton New Road Bridge is No 3 across the Caldon Canal.

These old canalside factories are by the Caldon Canal, and are accessed from Pyenest Street.

The derelict factories on the left are between Bedford Street and Searle Street. Looking south-east towards Shelton and Hanley Park.

In Hanley.

Shearer Street Bridge (No 3) is just out of sight round the bend. Many of the old factory buildings and workshops are being demolished in this area of Stoke, regeneration of the land being very extensive. I think the butty (unpowered narrowboat) is one of those which used to be worked between pottery workshops right into the 1990s and possibly even later. Image] The Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal opened in 1779. It runs eighteen miles from Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent, where it leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal. It terminates at Froghall about five miles south-east of Cheddleton. The canal has seventeen locks and the 69 metre long very low Froghall Tunnel, unusable by many narrowboats. The canal did originally continue through to Uttoxeter, but the section beyond Froghall was closed by the mid 1840s, much of its course being filled in to construct a railway.

Factories and workshops on the right are behind terraced housing in Pyenest Street. I think the two butties are those which used to be pushed around between workshops by the grey tug (then with a motor) with loads of pottery right up into 1990s, possibly even later. See also Image] The Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal opened in 1779. It runs eighteen miles from Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent, where it leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal. It terminates at Froghall about five miles south-east of Cheddleton. The canal has seventeen locks and the 69 metre long very low Froghall Tunnel, unusable by many narrowboats. The canal did originally continue through to Uttoxeter, but the section beyond Froghall was closed by the mid 1840s, much of its course being filled in to construct a railway.