Bradley Branch
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The Bradley Branch or Bradley Locks Branch was a short canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands, England. Completed in 1849, it included nine locks, and had a number of basins wh
Lock No. 1 lies beneath the West Midlands Metro
The upper 6 locks of the Bradley Branch, around 1890, showing the locks and lagoons
Lock No. 2, the only other visible lock of the original nine
Birchills Junction
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Birchills Junction is the canal junction at the northern limit of what is now called the Walsall Canal where it meets the Wyrley and Essington Canal main line, near Walsall, West Midlands, England. It
Bradley Branch
…and links between the two canal systems included the Walsall Extension Canal, which ran northwards from Walsall to meet the Wyrley and Essington at Birchills Junction. A private canal, to Bradley Marr works, left the Wednesbury Oak Loop and descended through a staircase of two locks, although it did not reach either…
Birchills Junction with the Walsall Canal passing through the bridge to the right.