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Canals of Birmingham

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Hi Redken

It's a stretch of th B'ham Fazeley canal between Lower Loveday St and Newtown Row.
The tall building on the right behind the cyclists is the rear of Turners Bros in Cliveland St.

Dave.
 
I can remember that canal 'traffic island' quite well, Broad St in the background.

Not sure is the island is still there?
 
redken said:
Thanks Dave...Here is another one for you.View attachment 76993
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Thats my picture, I took that in the early 1980s.

It is part of a series of pictures I took round the ICC and NIA and Brindley Place area during the 1980s when they were redeveloping the site.

Where did you get it from, though I did post it on this web site a couple of years ago.

Here is a link to the topic on this web site where I posted all my pictures, though all the pictures have gone after the web site "crash" of a few months ago.

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=29123

Yes the roundabout is still there, here is the same view I took last yearView attachment 76996

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/images2/userpics/10322/Canal.jpg
 
To me Gas Street basin (before it was 'tarted up') epitomizes the Birmingham canal system and a painting probably does it more justice than a photo (purely a personal opinion). I painted this, one of a series of Birmingham Canal paintings in 1980, it is now in Denver Colorado. Eric
Gas_St_Basin_(2).jpg
 
Hi Guibert.
Thanks for letting me know about my last post picture.
I ment to post one of mine in b&w.
I tagged your pic some time ago for nastalgia, it reminded me of maybe being there some time in my life.
Guibert, I never tag pics from posties to repost, then claiming the shot to be mine... as I have not with your shot.
Because of that I decided to leave it. I have credited it to you since reading your post.
I will remove it and from now on will take greater care with what I post on this forum.
regards
redken
 
redken said:
Hi Guibert.
Thanks for letting me know about my last post picture. I meant to post one of mine in b&w.
I tagged your pic some time ago for nastalgia, it reminded me of maybe being there some time in my life.
Guibert, I never tag pics from posties to repost, then claiming the shot to be mine... as I have not with your shot.
Because of that I decided to leave it. I have credited it to you since reading your post.
I will remove it and from now on will take greater care with what I post on this forum.
regards redken
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Thanks for that.

No problem with you posting it, but nice to have a credit.

Trouble is with the internet nowadays it is so easy to "borrow" someones picture and pass it off as your own (not that I am insinuating you would do that).

Thanks again for the credit.
 
Morturn, Here is another, this is Cambriam Wharf, also 1980, not far from Gas St Basin, just a short walk under Broad Street tunnel. Have not been there for many years but have been informed it has changed very little. Eric
Cambrian_wharf_1980.jpg
 
Morturn, this one, also painted 1980, is some where in the vicinity of Newhall Street. Better not put anymore on, don't wish to hog the thread. Eric
Birminghan_canal_nr_Newhall_St.JPG
 
Eric, they are stunning, I know that canal quite well, and have seen the changes over the years.

In the vicinity of your first picture of the bridge at Gas Street basin in 1966 someone took a photo of me sitting at the helm of a barge. The Bolinder engine chugging away. We were delivering it to Tardebigg dry dock; there were not many canal boats on the cut then.

I would love to see a few more if you could please.
 
Morturn, Gas St basin again but looking in opposite direction and from a high vantage point (canal bridge) once again painted in 1980. EricGas_St_basin.JPG
 
Morturn, this is just below Lancaster Street, you can just see the twin spires of St Chads on the left. I do have one or two more but the gallery who bought them also bought the copyrght so I cannot display them. I do have a pen and ink drawing of Gas St basin and thats it. EricBham_canalnr_Lancaster_St_001.JPG
 
Well those were a pleasure to look at Eric, was the GasStreet pen and ink prior to the brick foot bridge?
 
These are lovely pieces of your work Eric. I do enjoy industrial scenes, especially canals, as you get to see a view of a place not normally seen. They're so interesting and a wonderful record of these places. Thank you for posting them. Viv.
 
Morturn, Here is an example of my pen work, based on one of my Gas St basin watercolours, this is a recent work and was framed and donated as a raffle prize at our Saint Georges 'meet' at the Bull. EricGas_St_basin_001~0.JPG
 
Excellent drawing, wish I could have made the St Georges daymeet, I would have bought a few dozen tickets to try to win that one.

That's just where I moored that barge, The Adder all thoseyears ago.

The arm on the left used to go under Gas Street and came outinto a stone masons factory, they used to cut marble into slabs. We were shown aroundthe factory by one of the workmen when we were kids.

It's something people dare not do now, yet for us as kids,it was really interesting.
 
One of the things I enjoy most about Birmingham is the canals. I haven't got to explore that much of the network so far but it is just so pretty and peaceful to walk along by the water in the middle of a large city and watch the colourful narrow-boats going by. So much more enjoyable that having a large (and in the case of Dublin, dirty) river running through the city.
 
Cycled from Chester Rd to Broad St and back today, first time, never new about all the locks near to town.
 
Would any member who has the wherewithall to do so please tell me if a canal loop or mainline canal ever went anywhere near to St. Bartholomews Church by Jennens Row.
 
Saint Bartholomews..jpeg 1937.
The reason I asked the question in #388 was because in an envelope of Broad Street pics I found this one of Saint Barthomews Church in Masshouse Lane. I looked at Masshouse Lane and there was indeed a St. Barthomews in that location. The reason for it being in the Broad Street envelope must be that the canal as pointed out by Dek was linked up to the one off Broad Street.
The text with the picture reads- This Church was demolished in 1943.
 
View attachment 785271958.
Jean, re. your #358, the Flapper & Firkin, formerly The Longboat now occupies this site near Cambridge Street.
 
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