Aston & B'ham City Canals c1980 Photo Gallery by Keith Berry at pbase.com

Aston & B'ham City Canals c1980

I came across several rolls of 35mm black and white negatives that I had not seen for many years.
A few of these pictures were printed at the time and some of the prints were scanned and added
into my album of Old Birmingham pictures, but I have just run all of these negatives through a
video slide duplicator attached to my Olympus C-750 digital camera and to my eye they possess
more clarity than the prints that had been digitised by a flatbed scanner. What do you think?

Aston Canal	Aston Canal	Aston Canal	Aston Canal
Aston Canal	Aston Canal	Aston Canal	Aston Canal
Aston Canal	Aston Canal	Aston Canal	Aston Canal
Aston Canal	Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal
Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal
Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal	Birmingham City Canal
Birmingham City Canal	Mandy & Co.	Butty

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john mclaren		11-Jan-2012 01:00
brilliant,,i remember all of Birmingham canals you have they are ladywood near st vincent st and near city center were sea life center is now,thanks for keeping my memories on film,, John Mclaren.ladywood,

Keith Christie		23-Feb-2010 20:04
Keith can I say how nostalgic it is to see your pictures of the Birmingham canal system that are all of a similar standard of your sets around the streets of Birmingham. Are you sure that you don't have a similar set of forgotten pictures of other parts of the the Birmingham Canal Navigations, like Birmingham itself the changes that have and are taking place to the canals are as drastic and it is only when one sees such a collection does it impact on what have and are losing of our heritage. Please search your archives.

Jenny Nicol		08-Mar-2006 00:26
Keith, I think the clarity of the photos in black and white are excellent. I don't think many of us North Birmingham people saw the canals as they are shown here...just a glimpse in between buildings on a bus route in the Birmingham for me. I especially liked Salford Bridge in the early l950's before Spaghetti was built. The bridge was very nice looking and I often saw the horses pulling the barges along the tow path. Wonderful to be able to see what was behind the building where the canal was. Fine photos all. Thanks for them.

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