Walsall basin is deep - official

[Mad Harold]

On 27/11/2020 at 11:05, Tracy D'arth said:

 

 

Is it time that boaters took command of our own canals?  

Yeah, come the revolution Comrade......

😞😰😄

[IanD]

On 02/03/2021 at 16:20, Heartland said:

Deep water buoy for an excavated basin, that is probably a first, but there is a very good reason for a deep water sign on the Walsall Arm, which passed beside limeworks and the bed of the canal is deep on parts and used to have signs where the limeworks once were.

 

The lime extraction ceased in the 19th Century but the problems of subsidence continued to occur. Subsidence in parts of the BCN is not uncommon, especially where there were coal mines. Assuming the 4ft rule is not always the best

 

 

 

IIRC many years ago a friend of my BIL on a boating holiday fell in and drowned in one of the deep/subsided canals somewhere in the Midlands... 😞

Edited October 27, 2021 by IanD