Warwick bar

[Vivienne14]

Work has started on Warwick bar. This may be one development to flag up and watch as there seems to have been some concern over its sale. Some background info to the Bar below. Viv.

From birmingham.gov.uk
Warwick Bar Conservation Area was designated in 1987 and extended in May 2000. It lies to the east of the city centre.

The conservation area contains the most complete canalside quarter in Birmingham. Its significance derives from a concentration of surviving canal structures, including basins, locks and wharves, together with a wide range of historic canal related warehousing and works.

The area reflects the importance of the canal system in the growth and development of Birmingham trade and industry from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century and the city history as a focus of the waterways

 

[guilbert53]

Of course this area is very near the site of the huge HS2 station which will be built in Eastside.

So the Warwick Bar site is quite valuable, and has huge potential for the future.

Warwick Bar web site here

https://www.warwickbar.co.uk/

Council web site and maps here

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/warwickbarca
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[Heartland]

The term Warwick Bar refers to the junction of two canal systems, like Worcester Bar at Gas Street, where separate tolls became chargeable. Every Canal relied on tolls for finance, and all forms of goods and minerals carried by boat was subject to a specified charge Warwick Bar was placed at the junction between the Birmingham Canal and the Warwick & Birmingham Canal. The Warwick & Birmingham Canal was first opened from the BCN and towards Knowle in 1796, with the rest opening four years later to Warwick. Another canal the Warwick & Napton was also finished in 1800 and these two linked waterways enabled boats to travel between Birmingham and the Oxford Canal at Napton. Wharves were built at the Junction on raised up land above the natural level of the River Rea whose brick aqueduct carries the canal channel over the river below. From the aqueduct the canal is still on an embankment to cross over the mill stream that served a water mill (Heath Mill). Various industrial premises came to be built along this stretch. The stop lock and lock cottage were built when the Birmingham & Warwick Junction canal was opened to link this waterway with the Tame Valley Canal in 1844.