The
Shardlow Heritage Centre is not just about the relationship between the town
and the Trent and Mersey canal or in fact the River Trent, but an interesting
look at an area that has a little over 1,000 souls and an astonishingly high
number of officially listed buildings - over fifty heritage sites in such a small
area and a few quirky items of note as well! Like 
Shardlow
once had the highest single acreage of horticultural glass, until WWII, when
German bombers mistook them for the roof of the Rolls Royce works, not a million
miles away and flattened the area; and the Witch Oak that stands on an island
on top of millions of tonnes of valuable gravel, that was given a wide birth
by the gravel pit owners when a bulldozer driver unearthed two skeletons very
close by, that had no hands or heads - presumed witches.
The
18th century canal port has survived and changed, with many of the old warehouses
changing use, like the oldest of the salt warehouse that houses the Shardlow
Heritage Centre, another salt warehouse that has been converted into three cottages.
Other warehouses have become dwellings, workshops and even a pub. As if there
weren't enough of them in the village! 
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