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Here the canal broadens out to full two-way width and moves further away from the overflow culvert. Rising on the left is potentially a new housing development where once stood the large Co-op bakery with its impressive waterside buildings, now sadly demolished in the name of progress!

Views to the right overlook the wooded hillside where once ran a branch line as part of the Shelton Bar steel foundry. Further on past the upper east end of the culvert, paths lead up to Grange Park.

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Connecting Burslem
From Clay to Pottery
The Burslem Bakery
NB Elizabeth lies in the bed of the breached canal
The Branch Canal Breach
Junction of Burslem Branch Canal with the Trent & Mersey, 1961. Copyright Online Transport Archive/JG Parkinson. Used by permission
What was the Burslem Branch Canal?
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