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Newhall Street, BIRMINGHAM, B3 1JX

This lock is partly constructed under the bridge which carries Newhall Street. The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal joins the Coventry Canal at Fazeley Junction, about fifteen miles away. It has thirty-eight locks, including the Farmer's Bridge flight, the Aston flight, the Minworth flight and the Curdworth flight. The Farmer's Bridge flight of thirteen locks drops the water level by 81 feet (about 25 metres). Here the locks are descending by tall modern office blocks and apartments, all part of the city centre's major regeneration begun in the 1980s. Interesting information regarding this development is available on the BCN Society website here http://www.bcn-society.co.uk/BCNS_Photo_Gallery9.php#Photographs%20From%20the%20Recent%20Past . It is noticeable that in the newest Nicholson's Guides to the Waterways, the top nine locks are placed on a reduced OS 1:25000 map very inaccurately. Lock nine is NOT by the railway bridge next to lock 13!

Bar / Restaurant shrouded by BT Tower and other tall buildings

This looks like a 1960s slab-and-podium office block, but whatever its previous life, if it had one, it is now flats, Millennium Apartments.

This lock is constructed under the bridge which carries Newhall Street. The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal joins the Coventry Canal at Fazeley Junction, about fifteen miles away. It has thirty-eight locks, including the Farmer's Bridge flight, the Aston flight, the Minworth flight and the Curdworth flight. The Farmer's Bridge flight of thirteen locks drops the water level by 81 feet (about 25 metres). Here the locks are descending by tall modern office blocks, all part of the city centre's major regeneration begun in the 1980s. Interesting information regarding this development is available on the BCN Society website here http://www.bcn-society.co.uk/BCNS_Photo_Gallery9.php#Photographs%20From%20the%20Recent%20Past . It is noticeable that in the newest Nicholson's Guides to the Waterways, the top nine locks are placed on a reduced OS 1:25000 map very inaccurately. Lock nine is NOT by the railway bridge next to lock 13!

Photographed from alongside the Farmer's Bridge flight of locks with Newhall Street crossing in the middle distance. The Birmingham Museum of Science & Industry was to the left.

The locks are on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal in Birmingham city centre, they are part of the Farmer's Bridge Lock Flight, which comprises 13 locks and a rise of 81 feet. Farmer's Bridge Lock No 9 is underneath the Newhall Street Bridge.

An OS cutmark on the wall of a former factory/works building, which faces onto the towpath of the canal. Originally levelled, probably in 1956, at 123.862m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.