SHARDLOW Inland Port | Calendar 2023 Shar dlow InlandPort Port
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January 2023 Shar dlow Inland
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
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New Year’s Day
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New Years Bank Holiday
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23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 1 2 3 4 5
February 2023 dlow InlandSharPort
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
30 31 1 2 3 4 SUNDAY
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Valentine’s Day
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27 28 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
March 2023 dlow InlandShar Port
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
27 28 1 2 3 4 SUNDAY
5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Mother’s Day
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 1 2
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April 2023 Shar dlow Inland
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
27 28 29 30 31 1 SUNDAY
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Good Friday Easter Sunday
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Easter Monday
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24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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May 2023 dlow InlandSharPort
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May Day 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 1 23 4
Spring Bank Holiday
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
29 30 31 1 2 3 SUNDAY
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5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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Father’s Day
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26 27 28 29 30 1 2
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July 2023 Shar dlow Inland
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
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10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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August 2023 dlow InlandSharPort
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
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August Bank Holiday
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September 2023 dlow InlandShar Port
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Shardlow Inland Port Festival
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18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 1
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October 2023 dlow InlandSharPort
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
25 26 27 28 29 30 SUNDAY
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9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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Halloween
November 2023 dlow InlandSharPort
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
30 31 1 2 3 4 SUNDAY
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Guy Fawkes Night
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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27 28 29 30 1 2 3
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December 2023 Shar dlow Inland
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2023
27 28 29 30 1 2 SUNDAY
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Christmas Day Boxing Day
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JANUARY Credits: SharOCTOBERPort
Place: JD Narrowboats aka Dobsons Boatyard. Place: The Great Wharf
Located on The Great Wharf, during the mid 1970’s MAY
Dobson was a leading producer of sailing dinghies. Place: The Lock Keepers Cottage at Shardlow Lock Photo: Brian Corbett. OGA Trustee Maritime
JD operate from the same Wharf today where steel number 2 on the Trent & Mersey Canal. Heritage Trust (MHT)
narrowboats are now built.
Photo: Anne Williams UK Heritage Harbour Initiative Lead
Photo: Angie Abblett
JUNE Place: London Wharf looking towards Warehouse A aka
FEBRUARY Place: “Porters Bridge” number 1 on the Trent and Shardlow Heritage Centre.
Place: Trent and Mersey Canal from Shardlow looking Mersey Canal also known as “Flint Bridge” built 1816.
towards Bridge Number 1. Photo: Sophie Blake
Photo: Sally Bennie
Photo: Peter Trevor Goodwin Place: Derwent Mouth Lock number 1. The River Trent
JULY and River Derwent merge below the lock.
Place: Swans on the Trent and Mersey Canal, Shardlow. Place: Soresby’s Wharf and Dockyard with original canal
Photo: Jane Simmons basin, now private dwellings. Photo: Julie Taylor
Place: St James Church, Shardlow. Built in1838 with land Photo: The Towpath Rat Place: Narrowboat moored up on Cowlishaw’s Coal
donated by both the Burgin and Sutton families. Wharf outside Humphrey Moore’s original brewery, later a
AUGUST maltings (now a house).
Photo: Fiona Cox Place: Warehouse B on London Wharf, Shardlow.
Originally built 1780 today know as The Clock Warehouse. Photo: Anne Williams
Place: Sheep in a frosty field, Shardlow.
Photo: Angie Abblett Photo: Katie Davies NOVEMBER
Place: Towpath at Shardlow looking down the Trent
MARCH SEPTEMBER - SHARDLOW FESTIVAL & Mersey Canal, where once Soresby’s Wharf ran into
Place: Locally known as “The Old Mortuary”, Place: “Outram” the electric boat gliding along the Canal Cowlishaw’s Coal Wharf along the towpath.
Wilne Lane. participating in the 1st Shardlow Festival 2022. Courtesy of
Derby & Sandiacre Canal Trust. Photo: Sophie Blake
Photo: Carol Wesley
Photo: Jan Warsop DECEMBER
Place: Original “Mile Marker” on the Trent and Mersey Place: London Road looking towards The Navigation Inn,
Canal, this is over 200 years old and is Grade ll listed. Place: Towpath, Old Iron Warehouse (left), small wooden built in 1788 and formerly the home of Thomas Sutton
These markers run the length of the canal all the way to bridge over entrance to a basin now filled in next to the who also had a butchers shop there. Broughton House in
Preston Brook. Long Warehouse and Nos 2 Store. Display of working the distance, also built by the Sutton family.
historic narrowboats.
Photo: Sue Hampson Photo: Jennifer Ball
Photo: Jan Warsop
Place: Secret Doorway in the garden wall to the towpath FRONT COVER
of “The Lady in Gray” originally “Shardlow Lodge”. Place: The Boathouse hosting “Black Pig” Morris Dancers Place: Wilne Lane bridge number 2 looking over the Trent
at the 2022 Festival. & Mersey canal at trading boats at the Festival 2022.
Photo: Anon
Photo: Carol Wesley Photo: Georgina Hampson
APRIL
Place: Approaching the Flood Gates in Shardlow, the Place: Millfields, site of the original granary (left) to a long dlow Inland
boat is passing what was originally “Gainsborough Wharf ” lost steam mill for grain, festooned with Festival bunting.
which was built by the Gainsborough Boat Co. 2023
Photo: Sally Bennie
Photo: Mark Dunn
Place: Flower planter blooming outside Warehouse A the
first salt warehouse to be built, now known as Shardlow
Heritage Centre.
Photo: The Towpath Rat