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One of the historic cranes placed on the former Cambrian Wharf in Birmingham near Cambridge Street is down and surrounded by heras fencing. It was put in this place mounted on a small raised bank near the present basin there. This 1960's redevelopment that involved the creation of the basin and moorings on the former Newhall Branch (BCN) as well as the Pub, now called the Flapper. It is one of two cranes kept to preserve the memory of the former carriers wharves placed there.

Whether it fell down or was taken down is not clear

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It has been fenced off for a long time, presumably because someone thought it was unsafe.

It needed attention.

Sadly that attention didn't happen.

It collapsed and major cast iron parts broken, possibly not repairable, to be lost for ever.

Was the someone Birmingham City Council or CRT?

I don't know.

But it is wilful neglect.

James

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On ‎16‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 09:56, Heartland said:

One of the historic cranes placed on the former Cambrian Wharf in Birmingham near Cambridge Street is down and surrounded by heras fencing. It was put in this place mounted on a small raised bank near the present basin there. This 1960's redevelopment that involved the creation of the basin and moorings on the former Newhall Branch (BCN) as well as the Pub, now called the Flapper. It is one of two cranes kept to preserve the memory of the former carriers wharves placed there.

Whether it fell down or was taken down is not clear

By co-incidence this is probably the first picture of a canal that I ever took, during a school photography club trip into Birmingham in about 1972. 

 

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