Birmingham Canal Navigations Through Time

The Birmingham canals truly got underway following an advertisement in Birmingham''s Aris''s Gazette of 26 January 1767. The plan was to take a waterway from Wolverhampton to Birmingham with a branch to Lord Dudley''s coal mines near Wednesbury, and this canal network continued to grow extensively until the 1860s. With the decline in the demand for coal after the Second World War, the BCN lost six...