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<cite>An Address to the Public in Answer to the Case of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company</cite> - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
exhibition Controversial Proposals The Trent and Mersey Canal Company has recently issued controversial proposals to build a reservoir and...
<cite>At the Roe-Buck in Newcastle</cite> - Minutes of a Meeting to discuss the building of new branch canals. From the Enoch Wood scrapbook.
At the Roe-Buck in Newcastle a group of prominent men have gathered to discuss the plans for new branch canals connecting Hanley, Shelton, Burslem ...
<cite>Comparative Calculations</cite> - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During 1796, a fierce debate was raging in Stoke-on-Trent over controversial proposals to build a new canal. The new canal promised to link Ashb...
<cite>Extracts from an Act of Parliament of the Sixth Year of the Reign of George the Third</cite> - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
When a committee of manufacturers in Stoke, Burslem and Wolstanton put their weight behind a scheme to build a new canal, they published a series o...
<cite>Proposed Commercial Canal</cite> - Declaration from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
exhibition A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views. At th...
<cite>Proposed Grand Commercial Canal</cite> - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print. They believe that they have been cast as supporter...
<cite>Proposed Grand Commercial Canal</cite> - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print. They believe that they have been cast as supporter...
<cite>The Intended Commercial Canal</cite> - Minutes of a meeting at the White Hart and Star Inn, Uttoxeter. From the Enoch Wood scrapbook
exhibition An ambitious new project has begun in Staffordshire - outlined at a meeting at the White Hart and Star Inn, Uttoxeter. A transport revo...
Great Beauty and Great Riches - A pamphlet concerning the proposed Grand Commercial Canal, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
exhibition A frustrating meeting has taken place at the Star and White Hart Inn, Uttoxeter. Supporters of a scheme to build a new canal in Staffordshire ha...
Meeting to discuss a new canal from the Trent to the Mersey
document A meeting to discussed a proposed new canal linking the Trent and Mersey has been rescheduled. It will now take place at midday on 1 June 1796, ...
What now for the Grand Commercial Canal? A document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During 1796, supporters of a scheme to build a new super canal in Staffordshire locked horns with the established businessmen of the Trent and Mers...



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