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IoE Number:
217363
Location:
KINGS NORTON GUILLOTINE STOP LOCK EAST OF JUNCTION OF STRATFORD ON AVON CANAL WITH THE WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL, LIFFORD LANE B30
BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
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Date listed:
08 July 1982
Date of last amendment:
08 July 1982
Grade
II*
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LIFFORD LANE
1.
5104 Kings Norton B30
Kings Norton Guillotine
stop look east of
junction of Stratford on
Avon Canal with the
Worcester and Birmingham
Canal
SP 07 NE 17/2
II*
2.
Circa 1794-1802. Brick lined stone dressed stop lock with cast iron guillotine
gate framework. Winched counterweight chain mechanism to guillotine gate which
runs in slightly raked cast iron girder frame, the chain passing through a block
on the gate and up over 2 wheels carried on one side out and down to winch and on
the other out over a wheel supported by an elegant cast iron column before sinking
with counterweight into post.