On the Old Main Line, just east of the Chemical Arm, is another angled wharf entrance, now bricked up. Accompanying the towpath bridge is a pipe also straddling the entrance. To deter people from taking the obvious challenge of walking along the pipe, arrays of spikes have been placed at each end.
The more upright of the spikes have been "decorated" with empty drinks containers, mostly beer cans. Well, they're just inviting it, aren't they? Of course, this involves a certain amount of shimmying up the pipe, so perhaps the spikes aren't the deterrent originally planned.
When I took this photo in April the far spikes hadn't been "finished". Have they been now?
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It was still a work in progress in May:
http://captainahabswaterytales.blogspot.com/2011/07/stratford-2011-camp-hill-to-tipton.html
Actually, this arch was the northern end of the Oldbury Loop - completely vanished.
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