Description: The photographer described this feature as being the 'overflow from Greasley Arm, Nottingham Canal', the Greasley Arm being a branch off the canal that served Digby and New London Collieries. However, the flow of water is from the Gilt Brook, the canal having long since disappeared hereabouts due to opencasting for coal. Likewise, the brook itself has been diverted and realigned so the exact relationship (if any) between the structure depicted here and the canal is unclear. Can anyone elucidate?
The Nottingham Canal extended from the River Trent at Nottingham in a generally north-westerly direction for 14.7 miles (23.6 kilometres) via Lenton, Radford, Wollaton, Trowell, Cossall, and Awsworth to Langley Mill where it connected with the Cromford and Erewash Canals. Its main purpose was the movement of coal from mines in the Erewash Valley to Nottingham. Opened in 1796, it was later acquired by the Great Northern Railway but, apart from the Nottingham-Lenton section (which was transferred to the Trent Navigation Company and, via its link with the Beeston Canal, remains in use today), it was abandoned in 1936.