Nutbrook Canal
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The Nutbrook Canal was a canal in England which ran between Shipley in Derbyshire and the Erewash Canal, joining it near Trowell. It was built to serve the collieries at Shipley and West Hallam, and w
Parts of the canal still have water in 2006
This is Old Furnace Lock the third on the canal near to Ilkeston. It has lost its gates but the valve gear can be seen in this image in 2006.
Shipley Hall
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Shipley Hall was a country estate in Shipley, Derbyshire near Heanor and Ilkeston which now forms a Country Park.
Nutbrook Canal
…branch canal from the main line along the Nutbrook Valley. The first moves to build a canal were made in 1791, when Edward Miller Mundy, the owner of Shipley Hall, and Sir Henry Hunloke of Wingerworth, owner of the West Hallam collieries, investigated the possibility of building a canal without an act of Parliament…
Shipley Hall in the 1890s
Derby Lodge
Shipley Hall's foundations are marked out on Shipley Hill