Canal Narrowboat - Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 52° 59.916 W 002° 11.291
30U E 554482 N 5872423
This street art depicts a canal narrowboat and is located at West End Village in Stoke.
Waymark Code: WMV67N
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/02/2017
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This optical illusion of a narrowboat being steered along a canal has been painted by Staffordshire artist Rob Pointon. (
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"Viewed from certain angles the boat looks as thought it is bobbing along the canal under the guidance of the helmsman while two swans paddle past. But if the viewer takes a closer look, the picture is skewed out of recognition.
The permanent pavement art has been installed in the grounds of the £18 million West End Village, sandwiched between London Road and Foden Street in Stoke, and built by Staffordshire Housing Association (SHA).
The best vantage point to see the narrowboat in 3D is from the bridge in Corporation Street, standing at the bridge's central decorative strut. A second 3D picture has been added to a wall, to show a canal bridge and water. In the background is the lower parts of a building, of which the top half is genuinely visible above the real bridge in Corporation Street where the Newcastle Branch Canal used to flow."
Sentinel Newspaper - 27 April 2011
The Newcastle-under-Lyme to Stoke canal was a 4 mile level canal from the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stoke to Newcastle-under-Lyme.
It was authorised by an Act of 1795 and completed in about 1800, part closed in 1921 and abandoned in 1935 - subsequently filled in. It was very little used, except by Spode, Minton and Wolfe whose pottery works were adjacent to it's Stoke terminal. As a dividend earner, it was a disastrous failure. (
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