Newport Canal

`Buildings

: June 1985

: March 1976

: OCCUPIED BY T.H. BURGESS

: TELFORD LOCH HOUSE

: Loading grain at Canal basin, Newport, using a hand operated crane. Now at Blists Hill Open Air Museum Date unknown- probably early 20th century

Canal

: Aerial View of work at Forton March 2016

: From Peter Brown’s collection. Designated as RCHS – Boyes/Newport Branch 1 – from Br 1(70533)

: Surveyed and drawn by David Adams, Cartographer 2002

: Looking SW towards Newport from grid ref SJ 6451776

: Looking NE towards Newport from grid ref SJ 6451776

: June 1985

: View of canal at Newport. This canal linked the Shropshire network to the canal at Norbury Junction in 1835 and was owned by Shropshire Union Railway & Canal Company (later LMS). The canal was abandoned c.1944. In 1967 Newport Council purchased the part that was within the town’s boundary and it is now maintained as a town amenity.

: View showing people on the bank. 1900 – 20

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: From towpath under Bridge 3 looking towards Bridge 4

: Bridge No. 6 on Newport Canal

: For more information go to: http://archives.snct.co.uk/default.aspx?moid=246

: From Peter Brown’s collection. Designated as: RCHS – Boyes (June 1970)/Newport Branch 3 – from L4 towards L3 & Br 2 (70540).jpg

: From Peter Brown’s collection. Designated as: RCHS – Boyes (June 1970)/Newport Branch 2 – Br 2 (70534)

Locks

: Lock 2, Norbury March 1965

: Lock 20 Newport Shropshire c1900

: Taken after the lock had been converted to a dry dock but before the building which now encloses it was built. S&N News Autumn 2007

: SUCS work party

: Lock 21

: Taken from Staff Bridge

: March 1976

: March 1976

: March 1976

: March 1976

: March 1976

: 1978.

: 1976

: Date:Ê1962 Description: The Newport branch of the Shropshire Union Canal started at Norbury Junction with a flight of seventeen locks. The Newport branch of the canal was little used after 1920 and closed by Act of Parliament in 1944. It has since been backfilled, but evidence of the locks remains. The photograph was taken from under the bridge at Oulton.

: 2009

: 2009

: Stafforshire Past Track 1962/1963

: 2009

: Meadow bridge in distance

: 60M NE of end of canal

: 60M NE of end of canal

: From the collection of A W Gregory

: From Peter Brown’s collection. Designated as: RCHS – Boyes (June 1970)/Newport Branch 4 – L4 lower gate (70535).jpg

: From Peter Brown’s collection: designated as RCHS – Boyes (June 1970)/Newport Branch 5 – L4 (70541).jpg

: From Peter Brown’s collection. Designated as: RCHS – Boyes (June 1970)/Newport Branch 6 – L5 from Br 3 (70536).jpg

: Lock 20, Newport

: Lock 20,Newport 2011

: Lock 20, Newport

: Lock 20, Newport 2009

: Lock 20, Newport 2010

: Lock 20, Newport 2010

: Lock 20 & Town Bridge, Newport, 2009

: Lock 20, Newport, 2012

: Newport Children

: Newport Lock No.20

: Newport Lock recess

: Newport Lock Work Party

: Newport Lock – What it could look like

: Ticket House Lock 2007

: Ticket House Lock

: Ticket House Lock

: Edgemond Lock No.23 c 1950

: S&N SUCS work party removing paddle gear August 1967

: S&N SUCS work party removing paddle gear July 1967

: S&N 1st pound, Norbury March 1965

: Postcard

: June 1985

: Tickethouse Lock, June 1985

: June 1985

Miscellaneous

: Cutting through embankment Norbury 1967

: Horse-drawn narrowboats on Norbury to Shrewsbury canal. Identified by John Harvey at taken at Broomfield in c.1925

Wharfs

: Original lent by Mal Edwards MBE

: Original lent by Mal Edwards MBE

: Freeman Jones, taken about 1950 alongside 9 Water Lane and looking down towards the Newport Basin and Wharf.

: From Peter Brown’s collection. Designated as: RCHS – Shearing Collection/Norbury 1-7-73

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: From Peter Brown’s collection. Designated as: RCHS Collection – B&LJ/Newport wharf early C20

: From Peter Brown’s collection, designated as: RCHS – Boyes/BLJC 10 – Norbury Junction (70525)

: Newport canal basin and wharf with warehouse to the right (now in Blists Hill Museum);showing a horse drawn narrowboat: – a Thomas Clayton company boat ‘The Medina’- with Mr Howard shafting the boat out of Newport wharf. Note the steam of a meal being cooked on the range in the barge. This is a gas tar coal boat coming back to Oldbury from Shrewsbury gas works. Information and image courtesy of The Black Country Museum. (www.bclm.co.uk) c.1890-1910

: Newport canal basin and wharf with warehouse to the right (now in Blists Hill Museum);showing a horse drawn narrowboat: – a Thomas Clayton company boat ‘The Medina’- with Mr Howard shafting the boat out of Newport wharf. Note the steam of a meal being cooked on the range in the barge. This is a gas tar coal boat coming back to Oldbury from Shrewsbury gas works. Information and image courtesy of The Black Country Museum. (www.bclm.co.uk) c.1890-1910