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Pocklington history posters

View our collection of posters designed to help tell Pocklington Canal's story - past, present and future.

Discover the history of the Pocklington Canal through a series of posters, originally created for an exhibition, but now free to download. 

The Earl of Egremont John Lucas

Going nowhere: Early proposals
Plan of the upper section ofthe proposed canal

Grand designs: A new canal for Pocklington
A rare surviving fly tool from Kent Guildhall Museum Rochester

Work begins: The canal’s construction
The Walsh familys chair and jug Sheila Nix MBE

Life on the waterways: The watermen
Ordnance Survey map detail of Canal Head surveyed 1851 National Library of Scotland

Trading places: Canal Head
The Lock House from the north-east before restoration 1977 Richard Walton

Mark Swann: The first lock keeper

Local men and boys swimming at Silburn Lock c1915 Sheila Nix MBE

Cautionary tales from the canal
Photograph of a lighter above Cottingwith Lock c 1910 Sydney Harold Smith

Going off the rails: railway ownership
Earliest photograph of the lock-keepers house Sheila Nix MBE

The railway years: the lock keepers
Abandoned flat at Silburn Lock 1970s Richard Walton

Last orders: the end of the working canal
A derelict Thornton Lock 1969

The wilderness years: the uncertain future of the canal
Cottingwith Lock September 1969 PCAS

The Canal Society: The formation of PCAS
new lock gates at Thornton Lock in summer 2017

Meet the Canal & River Trust
The New Horizons leaving Melbourne Arm moorings

Meet the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society
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Last date edited: 16 June 2022