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Has anyone any information, please, about Henry Bradford, credited with surveying a line from Coventry to Tamworth in 1766, supposedly a fore-runner to the Coventry Canal? Is he, for instance, the Quaker timber merchant (b.1698) from whom, apparently, Birmingham's 'Bradford Street' is named? I ask, because the Coventry promoters seem to have taken things ahead with their canal very fast. Although Jim Shead's website claims that Brindley surveyed for them in January 1767, Josiah Wedgwood - rather closer to the action - notes in March 1767 that when the Coventry men asked James Brindley for a survey, he had told them they were 'too precipitate' but that he would 'look over the country in a year or two if he could.' In the event, by November 1767 the Coventry contingent were petitioning Parliament for a Bill on the basis that they had ' a survey lately taken.' So might it have been Henry Bradford's line that they meant? Of course, this question may be one to which there's just no clear answer.
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Hello folks, I am looking for your supprot in understanding the aqueduct that carries the Coventry Canal over the River Tame just south of Tamworth. Built by Thomas Sheasby it was the final link that opened the full extent of the Coventry Canal in 1790 after a long construction period dating back to 1768 when ithe Coventry Canal Company secured its first Act of Parliament. I have been researching the aqueduct - volunteering with CRT - to write up as full as historic picture as I can. I'd love to hear from anyone who has any information, knowledge or interest in this significant piece of heritage. Yours hopefully, Lucky Lowe
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