Event

Thursday
19th February
10 am – 3 pm

Email:
Tony Walker
or Phone
07708 320470

Cheshire Locks Workparty

The location will still be Lock 41.

Parking info – I have got permission from Jenna (the landlady of the Blue Bell) for us to use the pub car park for easy access to Lock 41. It can be accessed from the A50 through Kidsgrove. By Sat Nav use postcode ST7 1EG.

If you’re travelling from Crewe/Alsager, take the A50 (Liverpool Road West) to Kidsgrove until you get to Red Bull traffic lights at the crossroads with the A34. Carry on over the lights until you get to the next set of traffic lights at which point turn right into Hardingswood Road. After about 100 yards cross over the narrow canal bridge and turn immediately left. The entrance to the car park is on the right by the Blue Bell Inn.

If you’re travelling from Congleton, take the A34 through Scholar Green until you reach the Red Bull traffic lights, where you turn left onto the A50 (Liverpool Road East) and then follow the directions above.

We will meet as usual at 10-00 a.m. and work through until 3-00 p.m. If you are able to stay all day , please bring a packed lunch and a drink. Be sure to wear old clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty and marked with paint. Stout footwear is appropriate and bring along a waterproof in the event of rain.

Friday
20th February
7:45 for 8pm

Email:
David Clegg
or Phone
07429 151313

Talk at Red Bull

See Meetings page for venue details

The history and restoration
of the Caldon Canal
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Wedgwood & Brindley

A 1981 John Cunningham documentary
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Chalk and cheese (a celebration of James Brindley taken from the writings and correspondence of Josiah Wedgwood)

“Mr James Brindley. He made things happen – he made thoughts corporeal, he made things work. The only man I recall busier than myself in a physical way. Run ragged with demands on his time and skills to advance and maintain the explosion that was to pepper our towns with machinery, cut our countryside through with channels to feed our great manufactories with fuel and materials and take our products every which way to our cities and ports and so to the world. I knew him well for less than a decade – but look what he achieved and, even more, set in motion, in that time. This Age and Country are indebted for works that will be the most lasting Monuments to his Fame, and show to future Ages how much good may be done by one single Genius when happily employed upon works beneficial to Mankind.”      JOSIAH WEDGWOOD

Ray Johnson
(from Staffordshire film archive)

Contact David Clegg if you wish to join in with the pre-meeting meal.