Pioneering English telegraph engineer and electrician, and an investigator into spiritualism.
Caleb Wright
Factory owner and Liberal Member of Parliament, was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire.
Cambro
Three-wheeled, single-seat cyclecar made in 1920–1921 by the Central Aircraft Company of Northolt, Middlesex. It was one of the cheapest cars on the market.
Cannel
Type of bituminous coal.
Caphouse Colliery
Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Careening
Method of exposing the hull of a ship for cleaning or repair by laying it on its side.
Chaddock Pit
Pit sunk in about 1820 by the Bridgewater Trustees that was connected to the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin by an underground canal.
Chanters Colliery
Former colliery in Hindsford, Atherton where coal was mined from 1854 until 1966.
Chapman
An itinerant peddler or hawker.
Cistercian ware
Type of earthenware pottery manufactured in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.