Canal arm to Hockley Port in Birmingham
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Canal arm to Hockley Port in Birmingham
Image: © Roger Kidd Taken: 26 Aug 2010
This was the Birmingham Heath Branch (Soho Branch), off the current Soho Loop, built in 1801 to Matthew Bolton's Soho Works, which made fine jewellery till it closed in 1863. The arm now only leads as far as the private residential moorings at the Hockley Port Interchange Basin. See Captain Ahab's article here: http://captainahabswaterytales.blogspot.com/2011/11/birmingham-heath-branch-hockley-port.html The Soho Loop is a remnant of the original contour hugging Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line from Wolverhampton, engineered by Brindley, 1768-1772. It was superseded by Thomas Telford's new main line, mainly between 1824 and 1827. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_Loop
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Image Location
Latitude
52.491421
Longitude
-1.928084