Power Loop Traditional Cache
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Another in our "Power" series of local caches, this time the loop is the circular route that we use to exercise Harvey our Geopup.
Bradley locks were built in two sections with the lower three opening in 1796 to serve coal mines around Bradley Hall and the upper six following in 1849 to complete the link to the Gospel Oak loop section of Brindley's original main line. The chambers of the bottom lock, in the shadow of a railway bridge, and its near neighbour are still largely extant over forty years after abandonment. As this lenght of time has seen closure of the GWR line, the pulling up of its tracks and its renaissance as the Midland Metro, perhaps there is some hope for the eventual restoration of the Bradley locks. Bradley Bridge on Gospel Oak Lane is bricked up but retains its hump. Some of the copings bear the name of J.WHITEHOUSE, BLOOMFIELD.
The third lock was immediately above the bridge and then the route of the canal follows the green strip between the houses. Undulations towards the top indicate where some of the higher six locks were while masonry marks the position of the top couple.
At the top of the former locks stands a large windblown horseshoe of public open space, usually inhabited by a man walking his dog and the inevitable Black Country 'osses, whence the visitor gets the archetypal Black Country vista of pylons, houses, piles of bricks and distant factories, in a area which was once dyked by canals. Brindley's original Birmingham Canal looped around roughly what is now the edge of the open land while a cut off, dating from the opening of the top section of Bradley Locks, headed north towards Batman's Hill and Bradley.
35mm container, please bring a pencil and replace carefully.
Great place to exercise your geopup
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FTF - The.Darlaston.Duo.s
STF - Greyboots
TTF - Ordos
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