Talk:Birmingham Canal Navigations
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[edit] Soho Branch Loop
Is the short length of canal seen in this Google Maps aerial photo the remains of the Soho Manufactory branch? BCCWebTeam (talk) 14:14, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- It is named on the Historical Map of the Birmingham Canals, Richard Dean, M. & M. Baldwin, 1989, ISBN 0-947712-08-9, as the Soho Branch, opened 1801 and closed in 1909. It was longer than presently shown, apparenty going beyond the railway and as far as Park Road to a point labelled as Soho Wharf. Its layout should be easily verifyable from Ordnance Survey maps held in Birmingham Cenral Library, although the actual name is likely to be harder to demonstrate. As I recall this would have been towards, but not right up to, the buildings of the Manufactory. Oosoom Talk 15:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- This 1890 Ordnance Survey map on British History Online shows what Oosoom says. - Erebus555 (talk) 16:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
