CRT Ellesmere Canal Depot

[Heartland]

I was organiser for the Railway & Canal Historical Society Weekend at Wrexham, and on Friday May 4th, arranged a visit to the CRT depot  at Ellesmere. The staff there were most helpful taking our party around the depot, which is an "Alladin's Cave" of canal history. It was particularly impressive to find a team of dedicated and keen staff who have to deal with the diverse issues of maintaining the canal and responding to the operational issues associated with what is a very busy waterway.  

[Heartland]

To add to these comments, working smithies on the waterway are getting less common.  This is a view at Ellesmere. Others I have come across included Worksop on the Chesterfield Canal. I gather the one at Worksop has been gone for some twenty years....

 

Edited May 11, 2018 by Heartland