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Merevale Road, ATHERSTONE, CV9 2PR

According to the Image the elegant station buildings were restored in 1985. Sadly since then they have slowly been allowed to deteriorate again.

Commemorating the restoration of Image buildings to something like their former glory. Sadly the sign, like the station buildings themselves seems to have been lacking tlc in more recent times and the good work is at risk of being reversed.

On the far right Atherstone station platforms may be seen. Between the canal and the railway in now residential development, but in 1944 a government instigated rail-served grain store was built here, one of several across the country. It may have still been there in 1964, just out of sight to the right. The boat is being cleaned as return to the hire base at Stretton Stop was only three locks away, plus the trivial ones at Hawkesbury Junction.

The side ponds are no longer in use on the Atherstone flight of locks. This one is by Lock No 4, looking north (downhill). There is a video on You-Tube showing one of the Atherstone sideponds being used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiOgADpax2M On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven lowers (or raises) the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790.

This is the Coventry Canal, looking south-south-east towards Lock No 4 in the Atherstone flight of eleven. Jo Turner adds:

Lock No 4, looking north-north-west (downhill). On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven locks lowers (or raises) the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790.

Lock No 4, looking north-north-west (downhill). On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven locks lowers (or raises) the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790. Jo Turner has written:

Lock No 4, looking north-north-west (downhill). On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven locks lowers (or raises) the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790. Jo Turner has written:

Looking down from lock 4 towards lock 5 on a sunny afternoon. There are 11 locks in the Atherstone flight but they are grouped closer together at the top. The lock surrounds are kept very tidy here.

Looking north-west towards Polesworth and Fazeley Junction. The flight of eleven Atherstone Locks on the Coventry Canal raises (or lowers) the water level by eighty feet (24·4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres).