BCN Marathon Challenge 2013: Smethwick bottom lock on the BCN Old Main Line, close to Smethwick Junction. The "New Navigation Inn", a Banks's pub, has seen better times. There used to be two parallel sets of locks, built by John Smeaton in 1786 to cope with the amount of traffic, the duplicate locks were removed in the 1960s.. Birmingham Canal Navigation, United Kingdom, on 25 May 2013 at 09:02, image #90

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BCN Marathon Challenge 2013: Smethwick bottom lock on the BCN Old Main Line, close to Smethwick Junction. The "New Navigation Inn", a Banks's pub, has seen better times. There used to be two parallel sets of locks, built by John Smeaton in 1786 to cope with the amount of traffic, the duplicate locks were removed in the 1960s.. Birmingham Canal Navigation, United Kingdom, on 25 May 2013 at 09:02, image #90

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