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Duddeston Mill Trad Estate, Duddeston Mill Road, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1AP

On the Grand Union Canal (Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal) in Birmingham.

Grand Union Canal looking towards Bordesley Junction. 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. Behind the unsightly galvanised corrugated iron fence by the lock is a car breaker's yard.

Grand Union Canal, looking north towards Salford Junction. Behind the unsightly galvanised corrugated iron fence on the right 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.

Garrison Fourth Lock. Industry lines the canal and graffiti are rife.

Grand Union Canal, looking south towards Bordesley Junction Junction. Behind the unsightly galvanised corrugated iron fence on the left is a car breaker's yard. Industrial buildings on the left have their frontage in Adderley Road, and include the Saltley Industrial Centre. 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. Lock No 61 can be seen about 150 metres ahead.

Grand Union Canal, looking north towards Salford Junction. Behind the unsightly galvanised corrugated iron fence on the right is a car breaker's yard. Travelling south towards Bordesley Junction, 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.

This is looking north towards Salford Junction on a wet day! Behind the unsightly galvanised corrugated iron fence and wall on the right by the lock is a car breaker's yard. The businesses by the canal on the right have frontages in Adderley Road (The Adderley Trading Estate). 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.

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 ..."