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This is the lowest lock of a flight of five on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Stoke. I believe it was rebuilt here in the 1960s when the original line of the canal was moved to accommodate the new road system in the city. This lock has been fabricated out of concrete as opposed to the original which would have been made out of brick/stone.
©Andy Beecroft
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Stone- or tile-faced building with a decorative dome on Liverpool Road. Visible in a 1932 postcard of the street (http://www.thepotteries.org/postcards/stoke/5.htm )
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Dist:0.1km<br/>The trees help to contrast the old and the new.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Shops on Hartshill Road - the junction with Geen Street just visible at the right. Advert reads: Hercules The modern cycle
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.2km<br/>Dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter In Chains
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Previous Earthenware and China manufacturer at the Carlton Works, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent. Previously the company was named "Wiltshaw & Robinson" - in January 1958 the company was renamed "Carton Ware Ltd"
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.2km<br/>Fowlea Brook flows beside warehouses in this rather run-down area of Stoke. View from Liverpool Road near the Queensway roundabout
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Main entrance to the Spode Pottery Works on Church Street. Established in 1770, the pottery still occupies its original site. The factory chimney is visible behind
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The second of two central Stoke junctions upgraded from a conventional roundabout to a grade-separated interchange between 2004-2006.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Talbot Hotel is at the bottom of Trade Street, Church Street runs along the frontage. "A popular working-class activity, especially during the Wakes, was the game of 'prison bars'. It was played between two adult teams of eleven by the music of a flute or tin whistle and drum. The game entailed venturing from a den, and capturing opponents who would be taken into a 'prison' and held there until rescued by one of their team mates. It was not for the faint-hearted, and injuries were commonplace. It was played on fete days on the field - known as Prison Bar Meadow - attached to Norton Hall Farm, whilst a field behind Wedgwood's Etruria Works had been given in perpetuity to locals and that was christened Prison Bars Field. The Staffordshire Advertiser of August 10th 1850 records that during Stoke Wakes, prison-bar matches took place throughout the week on the race-course at Boothen. The men of Stoke parish beat those from Burslem parish, and all convened afterwards at the Talbot Inn, where the winners received half a sovereign each, and the losers a silk handkerchief each. There were also contests between factory teams from Stoke, Burslem, Hanley and Longton."
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.3km<br/>Fowlea Brook - is notably affected by pollution from the industrial areas through which it passes. It enters the city near Goldendale pools and is then culverted for most of its length through Longport and Etruria to Stoke, where it joins the River Trent. To the far left is the rear of the Stoke Civic Centre and to the right is the rear yard of Spode Pottery Works
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.3km<br/>Other than being of concrete this lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal looks very similar to the rest of the flight. It actually dates from the early 1970s since the original lock was south of here but this replacement was built to lower the canal so the new bridge linking with the Potteries "D" road could be built.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.3km<br/>A curiosity of the City of Stoke on Trent is that the main shopping centre is located in Hanley, leaving the centre of Stoke on Trent itself as little more than a suburb. This is Church Street with the Wheatsheaf, a Wetherspoon's pub on the right proclaiming its inclusion in the 2012 Good Beer Guide.
©Stephen McKay
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