tarboat's photos with the keyword: trent & mersey canal

Motor boat with butty in tow approaching the locks at Malkin's Bank on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

Flat caps are prominent as 'Spey No.88' passes the Anderton boatlift on the Trent & Mersey Canal with two dodgy characters on the counter. The exhaust from the Bolinder engine provides the obligatory blue haze over proceedings. The paint job is new and thanks to Tony Lewery who came out of retirement to make the old girl look good again. He last painted the Spey in 1976.

Ghosts of the canal past on the end wall of the warehouses and stables at Longport Wharf. The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was formed in 1846 and leased by the London and North Western Railway from 1847. The railway company finally bought it in 1922. The Trent and Mersey Canal was actually owned by a rival company - the North Staffordshire Railway.