[Default] On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:20:35 +0100, Andrew Case
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips
and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last of their
cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::

>Terry Streeter  writes
>>Day 16 - Sunday July 16th - Birmingham to Hopwood
>
>> through Broad Street Tunnel (which is actually a bridge!).
>Indeed. I have never been able to understand why it has a sign calling 
>it a tunnel. 

When there was the chapel(?) on the "other" side of the bridge to Gas
Street Basin (now demolished) it was a hell of a lot longer than most
bridges on the canal system (apart perhaps from Armitage ex-tunnel on
the T&M) and probably justified the title of tunnel.

Brian L Dominic

Web Sites:

Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk

Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk 

(Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005)


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