Gas Street Basin (Birmingham)

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 water, canal basin
Gas Street was the first street in the city to have gas lighting.

Historically, Gas Street Basin was the meeting point of the Worcester & Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Canal Main Line. For the first 30 years a solid bar - the Worcester Bar - separated the two canals so that the Birmingham Canal Navigations would not lose water to the Worcester & Birmingham.

Cargoes had to be laboriously transhipped between boats on either side. The bar still exists today, with boats moored to both sides of it, but a narrow opening allows boats to navigate from one side to the other.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Street_Basin
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Coordinates:   52°28'38"N   1°54'34"W
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