2008
SJ9001 : Aldersley Canal Junction, Wolverhampton
taken 16 years ago, near to Oxley, Wolverhampton, England
Aldersley Canal Junction, Wolverhampton
At the bottom of the "Wolverhampton 21" the Birmingham Canal Navigation reaches the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal here at Aldersley. The twenty-one locks up from here give a rise of 132 feet (forty metres) to the level which Thomas Telford maintained all the way to Birmingham when he straightened James Brindley's original (1769-1772) route between 1823 and 1838.
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