Lock and industrial buildings near Saltley, Birmingham
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Lock and industrial buildings near Saltley, Birmingham
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 21 Aug 2012
Grand Union Canal, looking north towards Salford Junction. This was formerly the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal, opened in 1844 to avoid the more heavily locked route through the city. Behind the unsightly galvanised corrugated iron fence and wall on the right by the lock is a car breaker's yard. Travelling south, the flight of five Garrison Locks allows a rise of 34ft 5in (10·3 metres). Lock No 62 is the second one up in the flight. Wikipedia describes how it was on this 2·5 mile link canal sometimes called the Saltley Cut: "... was reviled as the filthiest place on the whole canal system, with gas works, a power station, railway works and a chemical works all generating or receiving cargoes, and discharging waste into the canal ..."
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Image Location
Latitude
52.48588
Longitude
-1.863092