AMModels Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 Is there a definitive list of the districts within the BCN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 They changed with time as the system was merged and expanded. The lock cottages were numbered in district order and the maintenance boats were allocated to these districts. also. I know of an early list that was at Gloucester for the Mid 19th Century, and Roy Jamieson sent me a copy, that listed 6 districts. Generally there were 4 numbered districts, but became before the cottages were numbered in the present series. Ocker Hill for boat allocation was a separate district at one time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMModels Posted April 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Thanks for replying, sounds like its far more complicated than I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted May 1, 2018 Report Share Posted May 1, 2018 Yes the districts were 5 in the end No 5 included the Fradley, Ogley section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray T Posted May 1, 2018 Report Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) Does that include the length of the Birmingham - Fazeley Canal which joins the two sections of the Coventry Canal? Edited May 1, 2018 by Ray T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted May 1, 2018 Report Share Posted May 1, 2018 Yes, The cottage numbers are the clue 1-100 Birmingham District 100-149- Tipton/Wolverhampton 150-199- Dudley etc 200-249- Walsall 250 plus No 5 district- top end of B & F and part of W & E The district inspectors also came to have some large accommodation, that at Tipton, for example was a large building at the top of Factory- now demolished. These districts also changed with time, as previously stated, a factor in this regards was the merger with the W & E and the Dudley. There was also some reorganisation at times to save costs. References can be found in BCN company minutes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMModels Posted May 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2018 So would that list Walsall as District 4 at least for part of its life anyway? A friends dad lived in 204 Canalside Sneyd, were the cottages numbered in order from a certain point? Say from Horseley Fields for the W&E and onward Walsall/Daw End etc etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted May 3, 2018 Report Share Posted May 3, 2018 The cottages were initially numbered separately per district, then later the numbering sequence as a whole was adopted. There were also properties not numbered but recorded in a list. or lists. The numbering was sort of sequential as per location, but new cottages were added at the end. That is why the two cottages at Winson Green are not together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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