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Have made a number of trips on the Birmingham canals, a fascinating system. We passed through the M6 works in 1970 and workers had to move various bits of scaffolding for us! By the way the boat on Farmers Bridge flight looks like it is going down rather than up!
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The boat in the photo is going down, but I'm not sure that's the one dg's referring to... as it doesn't seem to have a group of drinking mates on it either.
I believe that the reason so many of the roads are built directly above the canal is because that was the only available land already in public ownership. |
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I love the last photo. At first glance it looked like an artists impression of a future development. Only a photograph on closer inspection.
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Will you be walking back down the canals to London? Would make an interesting blog series.
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Cliff Richard drove a hovercraft down one of these canals,
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Glad you've got over to Brum - you can obviously see a lot of money has been spent on the city centre and it's great that it still retains its industrial heart.
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Thanks for coming to Birmingham again - and making it as far as Brookvale Park via Aston Hall. Not many do... A minor point - there are 3 universities in Birmingham (Birmingham, Aston and Birmingham City. No West Bromwich Albion one as it's in Sandwell...[joke]). The one referred to in this blog is Aston (BCU is now nearly all by Curzon St & HS2), and I've no doubt that the one which considers itself both the biggest and the best (Birmingham) would be delighted if next time you walked from the Mailbox/Gas St Basin along the Worcester & Birmingham canal to their site and took as many lovely photos.... and caught the train back from the only University station in the land. (Btw the canal walk is even more rural and busier with users.) If you've done this previously then my apologies....
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I took my first degree at Aston University, at the other end of the Grand Union Canal from where I grew up. Glad you found so much of interest up there. Brum is a fabulous city.
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I've watched many features on the canal system there and enjoyed them greatly. Hopefully I can get there one day.
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Feeling safe on a canal walk is a subjective thing. The stretch under Spaghetti Junction is half-remote, with a long gloomy sliproad-topped tunnel which might put off some, but there were other walkers (and cyclists) around on my last visit and it felt safe enough.
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