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​Have these pics from Feb 2015, the sign as seen on the non painted building
 

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Is that the building that used to be the Opposite Lock / Factory clubs back in the 70's?
They were definitely somewhere in that area.
 
A view of the building from the Keith Berry collection. Did the tunnel to the right give access to Holliday Street? Viv..

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If you walked up that ramp as has been said you would be in Gas Street, this is a Google view of where you would be.
 

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Right got it - thanks Ell and Phil. Looks very cleaned up in Ell's photo. The square recess high up on the bridge with a shrub growing out of it must have been a fire hose access then - in Ell's photo its painted red. Viv.
 
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A view of the building from the Keith Berry collection. Did the tunnel to the right give access to Holliday Street? Viv..

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This tunnel went under Gas St. I managed to get through it when I was a kid, it was just a short section into a factory that at the time was cutting marble slabs. The guy took showed us round to look at the machinery.
 
Vivienne14 said:
Right got it - thanks Ell and Phil. Looks very cleaned up in Ell's photo. The square recess high up on the bridge with a shrub growing out of it must have been a fire hose access then - in Ell's photo its painted red. Viv.
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You might sometimes find litter when you head up to the footbridge that crosses the Worcester Bar.



One of my earliest photos of the footbridge

 
Thanks Ell, great photos again. Some very good Berry images in post #773. Like the little 'Butty' in the last photo of the link like a dinghy without sails. Been trying to think of occasions when one was needed- assume maybe it was used if the larger narrow boat didn't moor alongside a bank/pontoon/canal side. Viv.
 
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It's really striking when you compare the Keith Berry canal scenes with Ell's modern views of the neat and tidy canal side of today. I've been looking at the modern-day neat brick repairs to the bridge and tunnel onto Gas Street, the glossy painted ironwork and the general condition of the canal side buildings. In the past the canals would never have been so polished and pretty. They would have been dirty, smoky, run-down places. No trendy loft apartments but lines of dark and dank warehouses. Think it's ironic that the functional and scruffy buildings of the past have become desirable places to live today. I'm fully in favour of what's been done to keep the canals viable and alive. At the same time it's worth remembering the challenging conditions in which people living and working on canals in the past had to put up with. Viv.
 
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Under the Holliday Street aqueduct



View from Gas Street




View from the Mailbox. The aqueduct runs along towards Gas Street Basin.

 
Interesting views Ell of the canals we wouldn't normally see. Glad they kept the section of the canal at the back of the old ATV studios. It looks like it's been made into a place to relax with seating around it. (Or maybe it's a smoking area for office workers?!). Makes me wonder if any unused parts of the canal could be turned into outdoor lido's. Viv.
 
ATV was never there Viv. Was a new building in the 1990s when Central moved in.

ATV would have been on what is now the Arena Central redevelopment land.


If ITV News Central did outside weather forecasts at the studio, they might have filmed out there in the past.
 
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ATV was never there Viv. Was a new building in the 1990s when Central moved in.

ATV would have been on what is now the Arena Central redevelopment land.


If ITV News Central did outside weather forecasts at the studio, they might have filmed out there in the past.
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In 1960's BBC had a studio that was on Broad Street near to Gas Street.
 
Panoramic taken on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal, near the Cross City Line. South of the Edgbaston Tunnel. The old wall below Hallfield School is to the left. Church Road is above the tunnels in Edgbaston.

 
46 Gas Street - the former Gas Street Basin offices of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Company is being converted into a French restaurant called Bistrot Pierre.


Photos from Sunday 10th April 2016

Seen from Gas Street Basin





View on Gas Street

 
Canal towpath resurfacing works seen at Kings Norton Junction last weekend.

The towpath on the Stratford-on-Avon Canal was closed (the towpath on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal was open)





 
Nice photo's shame you also have those b......'s with the spray cans. Mind you some are very good but there are better places for them.
Cheers Tim
 
Thanks Tim.

I think the guillotine lock was recently restored / repainted. The graffiti vandals keep coming back, even on the railway!
 
I think the pathways might be being covered in that fixed gravel stuff. If so, think it's a great solution, lower maintenance, non-slip, fits in and looks good. Viv.
 
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