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.
The Butterley Company was an English manufacturing firm founded as Benjamin Outram and Company in 1790. Its subsidiaries existed until 2009.
Blast furnace from 1790 exposed through building demolition in 1986
1833 Butterley 'A' frame engine at Pinchbeck, believed to be the oldest 'A' frame engine still in situ
Butterley Company plate in St Pancras station