A new bit and old memories

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:41

The industrial wasteland continues for a bit

However, the canal leaves Stoke behind and the views gradually improve! The new bit of canal after Stoke Bottom Lock is pretty sterile, but serves its purpose. The new roads and intersections are indifferent to the canal below.

Osborn Bridge and the new section

An appropriate name for a plumber?

Another bottle kiln after Bridge 113 - and the workings beside it

Leaving Stoke gradually behind, we pass the final landmarks, remembered from our previous trips.

A50 Bridge 109 and incinerator beyond

Opposite is Stoke City's Britannia Stadium - marked by this way marker

Now we were into "countrified" wasteland

We have been travelling on these trains rather a lot recently!

Fields before Trentham (one of the "six towns")

Trentham Lock

And so we arrived at the Wedgwood Factory before Burlaston

There is a visitor centre and museum - worth a visit apparently, although we managed it many years ago! The road to the factory crosses Old Road Bridge, leading to a railway crossing.

Old Road Bridge 104

After the bridge are visitor moorings at Brook House, where we joined the line of boats behind Gypsy Rover.

Visitor moorings

Trent and Mersey Canal, Westport Lake to Brook House - 4 hours 34 minutes, 7.99 miles, 6 locks