Description

SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL
SO 99 SE
Birmingham Level, Tipton
4/6 Bottom lock and attached
cantilever footbridge,
Factory Locks (approx 50m
north of Furnace Parade)

GV II

One of flight of three locks and attached footbridge. Circa 1829. Engineer
Thomas Telford. Brick with sandstone kerbs to lock chambers, now partly
replaced by concrete. Cast-iron sluice gear at upper side. Single gates.
Across the lower end of the lock chamber is a cast-iron footbridge cantilevered
from the southern bank, so allowing a tow rope to pass through the gap between
it and the northern bank. The sides are each cast in one piece, with a handrail
curving up from a flat deck, and are pierced to form a cross-braced pattern.
This flight of locks raises Telford's New Main Line, on the Birmingham Level,
up to the 473 feet Wolverhampton Level.

Listing NGR: SO9529192622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626588

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)