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Finally made it to the walk the Bowline at #Bowling Harbour West #Dunbartonshire that links the Forth and Clyde canal to the wider National Cycle Network via a disused railway viaduct
#towpathtrails #railwaywalking
A brief break from #coal and the rusty remains of safety gates and sluices for #FerrousFriday at #Stockingfield #canal junction erected in 1942 to prevent the flooding of the streets below in the event bomb damage to the aqueducts during the war #towpathtrails #explore
A chain marker for #FerrousFriday #Netherton #canal tunnel #BCN #BlackCountry longest (functioning) in the #WestMidlands 2768m and widest in UK 5.2m
#canalheritage #industrialheritage #towpathtrails #explore
A little potter on the #canal at #Kidderminster and the stunning Grade II listed #chimney (and corner of the steam engine house) Slingfield carpet mill at Weavers Wharf now repurposed.
#industrialheritage #towpathtrails #explore
From Smotherfly opencast and into #Pinxton #Derbyshire along what remains of the #canal arm, must be 20 years since my last visit. The #bing, trackbed of mineral railway, the wharf still remain and a short stretch still in water.
#coal #miningheritage #towpathtrails #explore
Last Midlands wander, the #Litchfield #Canal abandoned 1955, active restoration is underway, explored the planned new route at #Sandfields and the old where only the pumping station and brewery malting (repurposed) survive
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The #Essington Collieries were served by the now abandoned #Wyrley and Essington #canal. The route is preserved through #Bloxwich. Traces remain including buildings and sections in water.
#coal #industrialheritage #towpathtrails #explore
More from Steve and the abandoned Dudley No 2 #canal and the restoration plans. Between the A456 and A458 at #Leasowes #BlackCountry
#canalheritage #towpathtrails #explore
The location of the eastern (left) portal of the #Lapal canal tunnel on the long abandoned #Dudley No 2 #canal now grassy public open space and the western end (right). Pics courtesy of Steve who went hunting the grid references.
#canalheritage #landscape #explore #towpathtrails
1/2 Last holiday wander south of the border and tracing the abandoned but preserved route of #Dudley No 2 #canal 12 miles built to by pass #Birmingham carrying #coal from the #BlackCountry to #London Pictures from #SellyOak to #WeoleyCastle
#canalheritage #explore #towpathtrails
Final stop on the Dudley No 2 Canal, Hawne Basin, named after one of the earliest #coal pits (closed 1883) in the area Old Hawne Colliery. The pit head was originally linked to the basin via a horse drawn Waggonway, it also served the tube works. #towpathtrails #canalheritage
Old #waste tips from the #Combeswood Tube Works, #Halesown on the banks of the Dudley No. 2 #Canal peeking through the underground #towpathtrails #explore
First #WestMidlands wander along the Coombeswood stretch of the Dudley #Canal (No 2) #Halesowen and the #abandoned and evocative retaining walls and trans-shipment strutures of the old tube works #towpathtrails #industrialarchaeology #canalheritage #explore
Commemorative sign #Coombeswood Tube Works #Halesowen #BlackCountry back story for #AllMetalMonday produced iron & steel tubes. Founded 1860 Abraham Barnsley, 1903 Lloyd & Stewart, 1967 British Steel Corporation, 1988 Corus, closed 96 #industrialheritage #towpathtrails #explore
A random pic for the last of the #WestMidlands #exploring. Overlooking the #Birmingham and Fazeley #canal at Ashton #industriallandscape #towpathtrails
The 90m high Red House #GlassCone #Wordsley #Dudley built late 18th C operational until 1936. Grade II listed. A point of interest along the #Sourbridge #Canal and #GlassQuarter #HeritageTrail seeπ
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Truncated cone of New Dial #Glassworks viewed from the #Stourbridge #Canal Town Arm, one of two built in late 18th C now occupied by Plowden & Thompson since 1922 producing industrial glassware inc. catsβ eyes #industrialarchaeology #industriallandscape #towpathtrails #explore
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