IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Downing Street, SMETHWICK, B66 2PA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Downing Street, B66 2PA by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (94 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Downing Street
Industrial units in Downing Street, Handsworth.
Image: © Peter Mackenzie
Taken: 12 May 2017
0.04 miles
2
Part demolished works, Downing Street, Birmingham
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 15 Jun 2011
0.10 miles
3
Tramway offices and power station, Smethwick
Apparently the pub-like building in the foreground was offices for the tram company and the larger building beyond was the power station generating electricity for the trams. It is now owned by a window company. This information came from our guide on a walking tour of the canals from New Smethwick Pumping Station to the Boulton & Watt engine foundations in Bridge Street. Some of the educational material passed around at the latter site included one of my Geograph images.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 14 Sep 2019
0.10 miles
4
Smethwick Locks branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations
A short stretch between the junction with the New Main Line canal (at the bridge in the distance) and the road bridge that carries Bridge Street North.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.11 miles
6
Woodford Iron Works Basin Bridge
Birmingham Old Main Line Canal.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 Jul 2021
0.11 miles
7
The New Navigation, Smethwick
I used to collect pallets of flour from a small business near here and I sometimes took a camera out in the lorry with me. This was taken seven years ago and the place hasn't changed much in the meantime, apart from the lower windows being boarded up. The name refers to Thomas Telford's canal, which replaced James Brindley's earlier Birminghmam - Wolverhampton main line in 1829.
Image: © John Winder
Taken: 22 Jun 2007
0.11 miles
8
The New Navigation
This former Banks' pub is still occupied on the first floor
Image: © planetearthisblue
Taken: 21 Jul 2012
0.12 miles
9
Smethwick Junction, showing towpath bridge over entrance to former arm
Image: © John Brightley
Taken: 18 Jun 2010
0.12 miles
10
Birmingham Canal Navigations at Smethwick Junction
Looking from Telford's new (1824-1838) main line, north-west along Brindley's old (1768-1772) meandering main line. Four hundred metres ahead are the three Smethwick Locks. There were originally six, but in 1789-90 John Smeaton and James Bough lowered the summit level by eighteen feet (5·5 metres) so three of the locks were abandoned.
Off to the left, Telford's new line is much straighter and wider and shorter, utilising deep cuttings and embankments, and only using three locks (at Tipton Green).
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 26 Aug 2010
0.12 miles