Parker Branch Canal October 2023 The Parker Branch is little more than a long basin which left the Mainline  to the west at Bromford Junction serving the Oldbury Railway Carriage and Waggon Works. Entrance to the Parker Branch under L&NWR Railway 1956 - G Wyton Worcestershire Archive Inside the Parker Branch 1956 - G Wyton Worcestershire Archive The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memor ..read more

 Tame Valley Canal A handful of archive photos from the Tame Valley Canal Aqueduct over the River Tame carrying the Birmingham and Fazeley at Salford Junction - BCNS Archive The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory of these lost canals alive. These images are reproduced for ease of research are are not necessarily the property of this blog, and as such should not be used for commercial gain ..read more

Birmingham and Fazeley Salford to Fazeley  This page is to contain interesting images of the Birmingham and Fazeley between Salford Junction and Fazeley Junction. Coal Boat being strapped onto the Birmingham and Fazeley, probably carrying coal from the Amerton / Pooley area. The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory of these lost canals alive. These images are reproduced for ease of research a ..read more

 New Main Line Smethwick to Tipton This is a holding page to capture images of Telford's New Main Line from Smethwick Junction to Tipton. A Historical overview will be added later. New Main line at Smethwick Near Bromford Bridge  The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory of these lost canals alive. These images are reproduced for ease of research are are not necessarily the property of ..read more

 Netherton Tunnel and Branch This is holding post for photos of the Netherton Tunnel and its connecting branch Canal. I will add a historical commentary at a later date. BCNS Archive The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory of these lost canals alive. These images are reproduced for ease of research are are not necessarily the property of this blog, and as such should not be used for commerc ..read more

 New Main Line in Smethwick Area The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory of these lost canals alive. These images are reproduced for ease of research are are not necessarily the property of this blog, and as such should not be used for commercial gain without the explicit permission of the owner (whoever that may be ..read more

Brades and The Gower Branch The following three images were probably taken at Brades and show how a single handed boatman could move two narrowboats as a single entity, with the butty in front: Photographer unknown The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory of these lost canals alive. These images are reproduced for ease of research are are not necessarily the property of this blog, and as such s ..read more

Stourbridge Town Arm Whilst the majority of this arm was restored in the 1960's the final terminus beyond he Bonded Warehouse was lost to development. Entrance to the basin The Bonded Warehouse Stourbridge Goods Station in about 1970 before the side was redeveloped as the Mill Race Lane Trading Estate Stourbridge Gasworks from The Canal Basin The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory o ..read more

The Saltley Cut December 2022 Officially speaking the canal linking Salford Junction with Bordesley Junction is the Warwick and Birmingham Junction Canal, but to boaters of old it was simply The Saltley Cut, because it went through Saltley. Fair enough I think! My earliest memories of the Saltley Cut was using it to bypass Birmingham as we sneaked around the south east of the city without having to climb to the summit in the city centre, and ploughing through a series of utterly filthy locks pasted with oil and grot. To be fair to the canal, it did pass through the heart of the Birmingham gasw ..read more

Hawne Basin and Coombswood December 2022 The Coombswood area of the BCN on the Dudley No 2 Canal is far from lost, but it's certainly rarely travelled apart from the local boaters heading into Hawne Basin for moorings, diesel or blacking. Whilst it's not abandoned, the stretch south from Gosty Hill Tunnel is very atmospheric and justifies a page of its own, separating the images out from those covering the stretch of lost canal from Halesowen to the northern portal of the collapsed Lapal Tunnel. The following images include the Gosty Hill Tunnel, the remains of the Stewart and Lloyds Tube Work ..read more