Latest Red Wheel Sites
| Location | Date Unveiled | Inscription | Red Wheel Image |
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| Claverton Pumping Station | 12/09/2012 |
Unique water-powered pump, designed by John Rennie and inaugurated 1813, to raise water 15m from the Rive Avon to the Kennet & Avon Canal |
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| Gloucester Docks | 09/09/2012 |
Britain's best preserved 19th century inland port, accessible from the Severn estuary since 1827 via the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal |
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| Lune Aqueduct, Lancaster | 06/09/2012 |
The largest all-masonry aqueduct in Britain, designed by John Rennie and opened in 1797 for the Lancaster Canal Navigation |
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| Redruth and Chasewater Railway | 01/08/2012 |
The former workshop of a 1.22m(4ft) gauge mineral railway, the first true railway in Cornwall 1824-1915 |
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| Iron Trunk Aqueduct, Wolverton | 22/07/2012 |
Oldest broad canal iron trough aqueduct; opened 1811 as the fourth attempt by the Grand Junction Canal to cross the River Great Ouse |
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| Salomons Motor Stables, Tunbridge Wells | 28/05/2012 |
Very early purpose-built garages designed by the motoring pioneer Sir David Salomons |
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| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | 28/05/2012 |
Opened in 1805 as the tallest navigable aqueduct in the world (also in Welsh) |
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| Gas Street Basin, Birmingham | 23/05/2012 |
From 1795-1815, transhipment point between Birmingham Canal Navigations and Worcester & Birmingham Canal across 'The Worcester Bar' |
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| Edstone Aqueduct, Stratford on Avon | 22/05/2012 |
Opened 1816 for the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. At 145m, this cast iron aqueduct is the longest canal aqueduct in England |
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| GWR Road Motor Services, Helston to The Lizard | 09/05/2012 |
The Lizard to Helston Station bus service inaugurated in August 1903 was the first railway-operated motor bus service in the UK |
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