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Digbeth Branch Canal

Martyn

Martyn

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As I live in tier 4 and can't go anywhere at the moment, I've spent the day putting together a set of photographs I took a while ago walking along the Digbeth Branch Canal. Less than a mile long it's perfect for your daily exercise and full of historical / industrial interest. I hope you like it. The link to You Tube is:
 
A great video Martin. Thanks for posting. For many of us, this will be the first time we’ve seen some parts of the canal. Really enjoyed that.

Viv.
 
Martyn said:
As I live in tier 4 and can't go anywhere at the moment, I've spent the day putting together a set of photographs I took a while ago walking along the Digbeth Branch Canal. Less than a mile long it's perfect for your daily exercise and full of historical / industrial interest. I hope you like it. The link to You Tube is:
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Great pics along with a brilliant presentation. Love the song.
 
Video above dates from 2021. There is now the massive HS2 construction and partly built Curzon Street station here. I wonder if this area will be cleaned up? There’s still plenty of Victorian and Edwardian factories to see, but I think there will be development if/when HS2 is operational.
 
For info on the Ashted Pumping Station associated with the Branch see…

Pedrocut

Thread 'Ashted Pumping Station.'

Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society (Transactions 2010 page 115) report excavations around Ashted Pumping Station…

“It was found that the flight of locks on the Digbeth Branch Canal lost water especially after the Warwick and Birmingham Canal joined it near its terminus in 1796. Therefore the company decided to build a pumping station at Ashted to keep their water in the system (Broadbridge 1974).

The pumping station (SMR no 20646-MBM2300) recirculated water up the flight of six locks on the Digbeth Branch Canal. It pumped from a well connected to the Bottom Pound, the...
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Stokkie said:
Video above dates from 2021. There is now the massive HS2 construction and partly built Curzon Street station here. I wonder if this area will be cleaned up? There’s still plenty of Victorian and Edwardian factories to see, but I think there will be development if/when HS2 is operational.
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A number of the factories' architecture shows their ancestry as schools, churches or chapels.
 
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