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The Bonded Warehouse arm was shortened by a direct hit during the War and you can still see the damage to the left hand wall in the picture. Large crack in the brickwork. (or you could when I worked there earlier this century.)

Saltley, now filled in.

We all knew about soliton waves back in the 70s. Hammer down towards Broad Street Tunnel/Gas St Basin, chuck back and wait for the screams from upset boaters. Of course when you pootled into the basin hardly moving and looking innocent.

There are lots of them ib Belgium near Charleroix and on the Roubaix Canal. All hydraulic I think. Cons are that the pistons must move together or the system jams and cannot be easily fixed, but the ones I have encountered have all been very efficient, although Bridge Keeper operated from slightly remote cabins.

Don't remember the Urinal but looks like Gas Street. Birmingham.

I was moored below the top lock for quite some time 30+ years ago.

Top of Curdworth flight.

High flying vehicles have made a mess of the Cast Iron and the buddleia is already causing problems. No one seems to give a monkeys about it. It will probably collapse before anything is done with/to it.

Looks like Curdworth to me.

The upper of Ian Moss' photos looks rather like Beckets Park in Northampton just below the lock.

Looks like Brian Collings in the hold of "Sculptor".

If it is Glascote, I spent some time moored in the disused dry dock then alongside the end wall. What is in this picture, houses and a wooden fence was a factory, (I think Reliant) and I used to park our car there. On the day the wall was to be demolished I got off the boat, took the car keys out of my pocket, dropped them onto my foot and kicked them into the canal! After borrowing my wife's car keys and moving the car to a safer parking space I found the Seasearcher magnet from the engine hole and searched for the keys. Among a million or so welding rod stubs I managed to find them. Must have been late 80s but would have to find the logbook to be certain. The dry dock would have been behind the bush in the right hand corner.

Nebulae was motorised but is currently a working butty again.

I can confirm the boat as being Linda/Victoria, just before it moved back to moor on the Bar when the ATV car park was being developed.

I have been through all 39 pages again and cannot actually find the stop gate originally shown as Mancrop at all, so have no idea where you have put it. In doing my search I have had a rethink about100036E as I think it might be connected with 100053E and 100054E back in England, 1000657 which are on the Rhine near Boppard. 100056E is the Rhine Gorge Traffic Indicator at St Goar. 100063E is the Furth Aqueduct on the Main near Nurnberg. 100065E is the Manpowered Crane at Trier on the Mosel. We think 100067E is the Rhine at Koblenz and 100070E is the other end of the Rhine Gorge control building at Oberwesel. (Umlauts sadly missing in several places!) Back in England, 100657E is Hulme Lock on the Bridgewater and I think 1000658E might be its replacement down to the Ship Canal.