Boatyard on or near the Caldon Canal

[Shropshire Landlubber]

Can anyone advise on a boatyard on or near the Caldon Canal, Staffordshire, where I might get a GRP 28 foot cruiser out of the water for a survey and onward road transport.  Also, any recommendation for a surveyor in that area would be helpful please.  Many thanks

[Arthur Marshall]

Stoke Boats are about an hour's cruise from the bottom of the Caldon. They've got a slipway. The Stoke Boat Club are on the Caldon, they may be able to help.

[Shropshire Landlubber]

Thank you very much - I've also been pointed at Etruria Marina, is this the same place?

 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

10 minutes ago, Shropshire Landlubber said:

Thank you very much - I've also been pointed at Etruria Marina, is this the same place?

 

No. Stoke Boats are at Longport. Etruria Marina is at Etruria (surprise!). The marina has a slipway, but I've no idea about other facilities.

[Shropshire Landlubber]

Just googled and discoverd that they're not the same place, but Stoke Boats looks more like what I might need, thank you Arthur

Thank you Jen

Who would think that there is a place actually called Etruria in England -  Not being local to the area I assumed it was a business name, hence the geographical confusion, it being so close to Stoke on Trent and all that !

[Mac of Cygnet]

1 hour ago, Shropshire Landlubber said:

Just googled and discoverd that they're not the same place, but Stoke Boats looks more like what I might need, thank you Arthur

Thank you Jen

Who would think that there is a place actually called Etruria in England -  Not being local to the area I assumed it was a business name, hence the geographical confusion, it being so close to Stoke on Trent and all that !

 

Not only that, but:

 

 

[Tonka]

2 hours ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

 

Not only that, but:

 

 

Isn't Eturia one of the 6 towns that make up Stoke on Trent

[Jen-in-Wellies]

4 hours ago, Shropshire Landlubber said:

Who would think that there is a place actually called Etruria in England -  Not being local to the area I assumed it was a business name, hence the geographical confusion, it being so close to Stoke on Trent and all that !

You're right. Named by Josiah Wedgwood for his pottery, where some of the designs were based on Etruscan styles. Nearly all gone now. Being beside the new canal was important, as it reduced breakages of finished pots being transported. Wedgwood was one of the leading people behind the building of the T&M canal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruria_Works

 

[IanD]

"Stoke-on-Trent" is a relatively modern name for the conglomeration of the six towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Fenton, Hanley, Longton and Stoke -- "The Potteries" -- after they were unwillingly unified into a city in 1910. Etruria was in Hanley.

 

https://www.thepotteries.org/six_towns/index.htm

https://www.thepotteries.org/six_towns/hanley.htm

Edited April 19 by IanD

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

You're right. Named by Josiah Wedgwood for his pottery, where some of the designs were based on Etruscan styles. Nearly all gone now. Being beside the new canal was important, as it reduced breakages of finished pots being transported. Wedgwood was one of the leading people behind the building of the T&M canal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruria_Works

 

and I think this little circular building is all that remains of the factories and estate. 
 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

3 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

and I think this little circular building is all that remains of the factories and estate.

That's the one.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Quick Google throws up some images of what it may have looked like

 

 

 

Samuel Smiles book on Wedgewood is a good read.  
 

I vaguely remember the story of Wedgewood having his leg cut off at the age of 37(?), he’d put it off for years but eventually accepted it had to come off. 
 

and didn’t he copy a piece of Etruscan pottery so exactly that it was impossible to tell the difference between the two?

 

 

[jam]

Artists impression of what it looked like. As was said above the Roundhouse still exists although the canal bank is now a lot higher.

[JoeC]

The canal bank may be higher but also the ground and the round building have sunk over the years. I can't remember by how much but a guide I was talking to in the Etruria Industrial Museum did tell me and I was amazed by how much. Same for the Etruria Industrial Museum itself - sunken by 1.5 metres (I think) due to mining in the area. You can see bricked up windows in the boiler room that used to be well and truly above ground level.