IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Victoria Wharf, MARKET DRAYTON, TF9 4BH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Victoria Wharf, TF9 4BH by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (60 Images Found)
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Boats at Victoria Bridge
The sheds on the left are part of H Orwell & Son Coal & Log Merchant. The discarded bottle is typical of this busy stretch of the Shropshire Union not far north of Market Drayton
Image: © Espresso Addict
Taken: 8 Oct 2006
0.00 miles
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Autumn on the Shropshire Union Canal
View north west through Victoria Bridge on an October evening
Image: © Espresso Addict
Taken: 8 Oct 2006
0.00 miles
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Wall sign at Orwell's Boatyard near Market Drayton
The business by the Shropshire Union Canal at Victoria Wharf now operates as a boatyard, so the coal bunkers have been dismantled and removed.
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 21 Oct 2012
0.01 miles
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Canal at Victoria Bridge north of Market Drayton
Bridge No 65 across the Shropshire Union Canal carries Maer Lane. Beyond the bridge on the right there used to be a wharf used by a coal seller (H. Orwell and Son), but the premises is now more of a boat building/repair business.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 15 Sep 2015
0.02 miles
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Orwell's Boatyard near Market Drayton
Orwell's Boatyard ahead used to be just a coal and wood merchant. Victoria Bridge is No 65 across the Shropshire Union Canal, and carries Maer Lane.
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 21 Oct 2012
0.02 miles
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Canalside coal, Market Drayton, Shropshire
This firm has been around at Victoria Wharf for a long time, and I did once buy coal there in the early 1990s, when they had plenty in large bunkers separated by massive railway sleepers (from the local dismantled railway, no doubt). There isn't much coal about now, it seems, though there does appear to be some car scrappage, and they provide a chimney sweep service (according to their website). We came by twice this week and on both occasions the "closed" sign was up.
A new-ish well painted board on display to the north of the yard offers:
Orwell's Boatyard
DIESEL COAL GAS BLACKING PUMP-OUTS RE-PAINTING SIGN-WRITING
Servicing and Repairs, Chandlery.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 21 May 2009
0.02 miles
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Shropshire Union Canal
Looking north west from Victoria Bridge.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Jun 2019
0.02 miles
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Canal at Victoria Wharf near Market Drayton, Shropshire
Orwell's Boatyard ahead used to be just a coal and wood merchant. Victoria Bridge is No 65 across the Shropshire Union Canal, and carries Maer Lane.
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 21 Oct 2012
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