IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
London Street, SMETHWICK, B66 2SH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to London Street, B66 2SH by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (41 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
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Canal feeder towards Engine Arm, 1987
The last part of the route from Rotton Park Reservoir above ground. Whether the culverted section onwards survives is unclear - there was no discernible flow, yet it was in good water.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 26 May 1987
0.14 miles
4
Bridge over canal junction
Used to lead to a wharf for French Walls (Muntz's Metal Works).
Image: © Andrew Abbott
Taken: 13 Sep 2022
0.16 miles
5
Entrance to the Cape Arm
On the Birmingham Canal Navigation.
Image: © Andrew Abbott
Taken: 13 Sep 2022
0.16 miles
6
Birmingham New Main Line Canal
At Cape Arm Bridge.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 Jul 2021
0.17 miles
7
Entrance to the former Cape Arm
On the south side of the BCN's New Main Line.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 4 Sep 2012
0.17 miles
8
Roving bridge over the entrance to Cape Arm
On the south side of the BCN's New Main Line. Cape Arm was created from a loop of the Old Main Line.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 4 Sep 2012
0.17 miles
9
Cape Arm junction, Birmingham Canal Main Line
The Cape Arm was part of the original Birmingham Canal which became a subsidiary loop when Telford's New Main Line was cut in the 1830's. It had its own branch from the centre of the loop which extended as far south as Grove Lane, and served many different factories.
It leaves the New Main Line under the bridge on the right (which is actually a tunnel without a towpath under a canal feeder which runs along the embankment above).
Most unusually, a considerable length of this disused and inaccessible arm is still in water. It can be seen on current aerial photos on Google and Multimap, and can also be seen from Cranford Street bridge, though it cannot be accessed as it does not have a towpath. I assume that it is still used as a source of cooling water by the factories which still line its banks.
The Cranford St end of the Cape Arm was also used as a set for a brief scene in the film 'Take Me High' (1973) in which Cliff Richard arrives at a factory in a hovercraft.
The second bridge which can just be seen in the photograph is the entrance to a former basin which is shown on the OS 1890 map serving the Imperial Wire Mills.
Image: © John Brightley
Taken: 18 Jun 2010
0.17 miles
10
Three towpath bridges on the New Main Line
The one the photographer is standing on, and the one across the canal cross the wiggly old main line. The one ahead of the photographer [where the parapet rises again] crosses the entrance to Muntz Basin.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 10 May 2022
0.17 miles