21st April 2020
We tend to think of big yellow machines and people wearing hi-vis gear and hard hats doing work along the canal, but it was not always like that. This is a random selection going back in time.
Staveley Town Basin under construction in 2011.
Aldi supermarket site in Retford in 2006. Photo courtesy Bassetlaw Museum
Thorpe Top Treble Locks under restoration in 2002. Photo by John Nuttall
Station Road Bridge in Brimington under construction in 2000. Photo by Ian Preston
Stephenson Wharf under construction in 1993. Photo by Brian Limb
Preparation for the A619 Rother Way construction just above Tapton Lock in 1988. The piling is in the River Rother, the canal is on top of the bank on the left. Photo © John Lower
Dredging the River Idle in Retford under the Chesterfield Canal aqueduct in 1988.
Photo courtesy Bassetlaw Museum
The start of construction of the A61 Inner Relief Road through Chesterfield in the early 1980s.
Photo by Arthur Green
The construction of Sandy Lane Bridge in Worksop just below Stret Lock in the early 1980s.
Photo by Doug Leeming
Works by British Waterways on Misterton Low Lock in 1967. RCHS, Kenneth Gardiner Collection, 66227
Tree cutting next to the canal in Retford in 1934. Photo courtesy Bassetlaw Museum
Works at Inkerman Bridge in 1926. It is labelled “Photographed for Pirelli Co., Southampton.”
Photo courtesy Bassetlaw Museum
Woodcock’s Bridge in 1920. Note the workboat just beyond the bridge. Photo courtesy Bassetlaw Museum
Construction of the flour mill in Worksop 1906. Photo courtesy Bassetlaw Museum