Red Wheel Sites

A complete inland port, developed on the banks of the River Severn following the arrival in 1771 of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

Operational 1916-19. The most complete former Royal Flying Corps aerodrome, part of London's air defence against attacks by German airships and bombers.

The world's first preserved railway

Summit of the 30 lock Tardebigge fight - the longest in the UK. From 1810-1814, site of an experimental man-powered boat lift

An archetypal 'hub' station, opened 1952, designed by Tilling Group architect HA Starkey for the Western National Omnibus Co.

A comprehensive boatyard facility, developed from the 1790s and later home of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company's fleet

One of only two working transporter bridges in Britain and the largest of its kind in the world.

'THE WHITE HOUSE'

CRAIGMILLAR

1936 roadhouse in an International /

Modern style, to which motorists drove

for food and drink, billards and skittles

Part of a 12.5 mile network of horse drawn tramways, designed and built by Benjamin Outram, linking Ticknall with the Ashby Canal

Opened 1722. Scotland's earliest railway, built to carry coal on wooden rails, using gravity and horse power. Fought accross in the Battle of Prestonpans 1745