The Newport Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal

A Collection of Photographs

Tony Clayton

This collection of pages shows pictures taken on the Newport Branch starting in the late 1970's, with others taken more recently. The great majority are images scanned from slides, and are available on application to me in far greater resolution.

When I lived in Wellington I could see the guillotine superstructures of Hadley Park and Turnip Locks on the Trench Arm of the Shrewsbury Canal from an upstairs window of our home near Wrekin College, where I taught between 1969 and 1978. Fairly early on during my time there I realised that parts of the local canals were disappearing rapidly. Bridges which were present one day had gone when I passed by a few weeks later. A particular case in point was Rodington Lift Bridge at the eastern end of Rodington Embankment, and Rodington Aqueduct itself.

Because of this I determined to make a photographic record of the canal, along with the Shrewsbury Canal, before it was too late.

1 - Norbury Junction	2 - Newport (Forton & Norbury) Flight
3 - Forton Aqueduct	4 - The Newport Area
5 - Preston-Upon-The-Weald-Moors	6 - Wappenshall Junction

7 - Humber Arm

Other Canals

Shrewsbury Canal
Shropshire Union Index Page
West Midlands Index Page
Main Canal Index Page