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Shelton Lock
Shelton Lock is a small suburb located between Chellaston and Allenton to the south of Derby, England.
The area gets its name from the lock on the Derby Canal that once ran through the area. The only traces of the canal's existence are seen in the form of a road bridge, the lock stones, and a cycle path which covers it. The canal was shut in the 1960s. However, there are plans to redig the canal.
Merrill College is the local secondary school which was located on Jubilee Road but this has now been demolished - the "new" Merrill College is in Allenton (the old Thomas Moore school); the area also has an infant and junior school. Chellaston Road is the main road through the area, where a lot of inter-war private housing can be found.
The Sinfin Avenue estate was built in the 1970s, and includes a number of Council and Private houses. To the rear of estate are fields and woodland, which are part of Sinfin Moor — as well as the disused railway which goes towards Chellaston. Significant areas of these fields and woodland have now been built on forming the Bonny Prince housing estate.
A spur of the M64 motorway was planned to pass through this area towards the Rolls-Royce works; this was never built, the mainline instead being constructed as the A50 road; Shelton Lock is connected to this by way of the A514.
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- 1930s: The towpath to adventure
- Allenton: The changing face of Allenton
- Baseball: Grandfather was a baseball catcher
- Busy life and times of man who lived through two world wars
- Christmas truce when old Waxie helped us meet football heroes
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- Derby's lost cinemas were centre of our world in the 40s and 50s
- Derby Arboretum Bowls Club: Arboretum Bowls Club decides to jack it in after a run of 144 years
- Derby canal
- Dramatic moments before Cavendish Bridge collapsed
- Felix Bus Services: Caring Felix buses dropped dad at door
- Fire Service: Fighting fires at British Celanese
- Mozley, Bert - Derby Lad and England Footballer
- Our little caravan of love at Shelton Lock
- Post Office: Easy rider Mick recalls his GPO Bantam days
- Post Office: Who needs mobiles and e-mails when you’ve got a Bantam?
- RAF: Discipline and respect in RAF
- Repton through the eyes of a "village urchin"
- The taxi business that Jack built in a car park hut
- Ticklecock Fair was notorious in 30s - and not for its rides
- Trolleybus era comes to an end September 9 1967
- Twin brothers who both overcame 11-plus failure
- Wartime memories of St James's School, Derby
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