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The Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust (LHCRT) are working on the reinstatement of a culvert and small aqueduct over Crane Brook which will link up with the aqueduct over the M6 Toll motorway. This will make part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal – now known as the Summerhill length of the Lichfield Canal – open as a Heritage Towpath Trail.
For more information about the Lichfield Canal visit my www.thehodgkinsons.org.uk/wyrley-walk5.htm web page.
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I believe the Titanic Ale went down well.
Trent & Mersey Canal, Westport Lake moorings, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffs,
12/07/2025
Here are some of the natural objects we’ve brought into the house recently. Read about it here:
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We enjoyed our coffee at the new coffee shop that sits directly on the towpath of Regent's Canal near the Whitmore Road bridge. It was so handy that I didn't notice its name. When I got home I did a web search and found out that it's simply called 'Towpath', and it's not just a coffee shop, it's a boutique eatery.
As the Potomac River floodwaters sweep around the bend, it piles debris up on the outside bank. This pile is approximately six feet deep on top of the towpath. The wall is still in good shape here, however.
Bridge 77 to Bridge 78
Dunstall Bridge
FAZELEY C.P.
BIRMINGHAM AND FAZELEY CANAL
Dunstall Bridge
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Canal bridge. Circa 1787. Red brick and stone coped parapet. Single segmental arch spanning the canal, plain parapet and end pilaster buttresses. The Fradley to Fazeley branch of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, which Dunstall Bridge serves, was opened in 1788; the contractor was John Pinkerton.
In June 1785 Thomas Sheasby was awarded the contract to connect the Coventry Canal to the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Although the canal reached the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at Fazeley, the final Parliament-approved stretch to the Trent and Mersey at Fradley was not finished until 1789.
The Trent and Mersey company, and the Birmingham and Fazeley company, anxious to allow through traffic between Birmingham and the Trent and Mersey Canal, gained permission to complete and operate the approved but unbuilt section from Fazeley to Fradley. The Birmingham and Fazeley worked north from Fazeley, and the Trent and Mersey worked south from Fradley. The full length from Coventry to Fradley was opened in 1789.
The Coventry Canal company later bought the northern section, nowadays sometimes referred to as Coventry Canal (detached portion), while the middle section remained under the ownership of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and thus some maps show this middle section as the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, but others describe the complete route as the Coventry Canal. The Canal and River Trust who manage the canal describe the whole route from Coventry to the Trent and Mersey Canal as the Coventry Canal.
The Coventry Canal bridge numberings do not resume until the Coventry Canal (detached portion) is reached at Whittington.