A life ashore

One thing that comes into the canalside scene oddly enough are houses and these were built very much as place ashore for the better off canal boat users thus having moorings who worked taking goods to Runcorn enroute for the Port of Liverpool from the Potteries bringing chemicals on the return while others would either make their way across the Shropshire Union canal near Audlem or towards Wolverhampton and the Black Country, the larger very industrialized conurbation in the south of our county.

Canals were like motorways in the nineteen sixties and seventies and the internet is today, the conduit of the economy

While peaceful, some modern development has started to encroach this area while the properties themselves have gained things such as solar panels and grown skylights for loftspace converted into bedrooms.

This having spoken to long established residents would be no bad thing as they recall sharing in these that were only designed with two bedrooms which got more awkward as children grew up.