Birmingham|UK|A City with more canals than Venice (my photos)

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Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · May 19, 2012

Birmingham in the UK is a city of officially 1 million people, and is one of the largest (if the largest) cities in the UK outside of London. Now like any other city Birmingham is rich with history and culture, and Birmingham's canal network is a huge part of the cities history. With the local council constantly using the catchphrase that the city has more canals than Venice, which it does. I wanted to show you what the canals are really like in Birmingham and how different they are compared to other canal cities. I went on a barge trip around the City a few months back and here are some of the pictures I took.

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Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #2 · May 19, 2012

There will be more to come

benbobjr

· #3 · May 19, 2012

I shall look forward to seeing them. Some great photos there!

Chadoh25

· #4 · May 19, 2012

Great photos!

EuxTex

· #5 · May 19, 2012 (Edited)

Brummyboy92 said:
Birmingham in the UK is a city of officially 1 million people, and is one of the largest (if the largest) cities in the UK outside of London. Now like any other city Birmingham is rich with history and culture, and Birmingham's canal network is a huge part of the cities history. With the local council constantly using the catchphrase that the city has more canals than Venice, which it does. I wanted to show you what the canals are really like in Birmingham and how different they are compared to other canal cities. I went on a barge trip around the City a few months back and here are some of the pictures I took.

I've also heard Birmingham, UK described as the Venice of England. Now I know why.

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Ecological

· #6 · May 19, 2012

Fantastic Pictures Brummy.

It's nice to see other shot's which don't reflect the big shiny buildings and the true grit of this industrial powerhouse.

The reason's the canals were built in the first place.

Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #7 · May 19, 2012

Cheers everyone, and yes Eco, I want to show people that it may not be as pretty as Venice or Amsterdam, however it was a fantastic experience that realy gave me a chance to explore our diverse canal network, and it gets me excitied due to the shear amount of potential the canals have.

More to come...

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ill tonkso

· #8 · May 19, 2012

Fantastic photos mate, I love Canals. Always wanted to do the BCN's. I have only ever done the Kennet and Avon (but never through Bath or Bristol

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Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #9 · May 20, 2012

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mikey23

· #10 · May 22, 2012

Brummyboy (and anyone else interested in canals), BBC4 had a program on last night which walked the Birmingham - Worcester canal. Some nice aerial shots and telling of the area's history.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0110ghh/

Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #11 · May 22, 2012

I missed it Mikey, however I will deffinatly give that a watch

I thought more people would be more interested in this lol.

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Johnoo1

· #12 · May 22, 2012

Birmingham - a place I would never bother with - until now (well apart from a Black Sabbath gig)

sherbornewharf

· #13 · May 23, 2012

Thanks for photographs!

Hi guys,

Thanks so much for posting all these beautiful photographs of the Birmingham canals. I work for Sherborne Wharf and we run all the canal boat trips across the city. We will be featuring this blog on our Facebook page (/sherbornewharf), so look out for it and please share more photographs with us as you take them. We are currently looking for a new cover photo for our page so if you have any ideas just submit them on Facebook!

Thanks again,

Jodie - Sherborne Wharf

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Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #14 · May 24, 2012

Smaller update before my final set of pictures.

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Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #15 · May 28, 2012

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Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #16 · May 28, 2012

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Brummyboy92

Discussion Starter · #17 · May 28, 2012

This pleb tryed to jump the canal and failed.

This pleaset woman did this

Thats all folks.

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Linguine

· #18 · May 28, 2012

nice shots of the Birmingham canals...:cheers:

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