Post 3000

When i started this blog many years ago, post 3000 seemed so far away but here it is, and it is Curdworth Tunnel.

Approaching a milestone

Well, if you travel the canals you will reach and pass many milestones. However, this blog is reaching a big milestone this week (tomorrow in fact), 3000 posts! So, this week we will not feature any one waterway as a theme but instead will feature some interesting photos we may have missed earlier, and do a bit of reminicing.

Starting with a narrowboat about to pass below Brace Factory Bridge, the feature on the waterway network closest to where i live!

Boats on the canal (406)

At Cambrian Wharf.

Viewing Farmer's Bridge Lock 1

Overhead view of the lock.

Boats on the canal (405)

At Cambrian Wharf.

Across Farmer's Bridge

Crossing the bridge.

Cambrian Wharf

This week we are at the Birmingham end of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal around Cambrian Wharf.

Pubs (58) : The Flapper

In Birmingham.

Farmer's Bridge

The bridge that gives the lock flight it's name.

Farmer's Bridge Lock 1

Top lock of the Farmer's Bridge flight.

To the end

We return to the Birmingham and Fazeley, now close to the city end of the canal.

Farmer's Bridge Lock 1 again

Another look at this lock, the last (or first depending on your direction) lock of the canal.

Farmer's Bridge Lock 2

Please close the lock gates after use!

Farmer's Bridge Lock 3

Another lock in central Birmingham.

Saturday Bridge

In the distance that icon of Birmingham, the Post Office Tower, which this canal passes underneath (more or less!)

Farmer's Bridge Lock 4

Lock gate at Lock 4 of the Farmer's Bridge lock flight.

Birmingham and Fazeley

We return to the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal's Farmer's Bridge lock flight, as we approach the Birmingham end of the canal.

Pubs (55) : Tyburn House

In Erdington.

Butlers Bridge and tag

The side of the bridge has been enlivened by local artists.

Forming ice

Cold enough for ice to form on the cut.