Within this post are several panoramic images that have been taken along Birmingham’s canal network. Birmingham’s Canal is the longest in Europe and offers a range of sights. The first picture was taken a stone’s throw from the National Indoor Arena and shows both industry, residence and leisure. When I took these photos I was [...]
Birmingham Panoramics
For around two years while I was living in Birmingham I worked in the Mailbox but lived in the Jewellery Quarter. So everyday, providing the canal path wasn’t covered in snow or ice, I would walk along the canal to work. The nicer part of the canal is definitely this area called Gas Street Basin. [...]
The canal network around Birmingham has some quite attractive parts but for this post I really wanted to take some panoramics of the less attractive parts. This part of the canal runs just below the Jewellery Quarter and shows what the canal used to look like. If you walk to the left there’s the more [...]
Below are two completely different images from a small section of Birmingham’s canal network. The first image is very close to the Flapper pub and is surrounded by residential tower blocks but the second image is taken from the bridge that connects Brindleyplace to the International Convention Centre. I never really enjoyed living in Birmingham [...]
One of my favourite parts of the West Midlands is Lichfield. Birmingham itself is a pretty grim place, at least when compared to cities like Edinburgh, but Lichfield is a picturesque city right at the far end of Birmingham. The highlight of Lichfield is most definitely Lichfield Cathedral. It’s absolutely stunning inside. The first cathedral [...]
