Canal Walk; University to Stirchley

This walk heads south, from the University of Birmingham to Stirchley, along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The walk took me about an hour. This route is popular with cyclists and joggers so be prepared to move aside!

I joined the canal via a hole in a wall, near to University railway station (building on the left).

The canal towpath goes over a new bridge that was built as part of the new relief road work. The cross winds up here are quite powerful!!!

At the Selly Oak Railway Bridge, on the left hand side, a graffiti-ed wall can be seen. This is the start of a railway bridge - I'm not sure if it was ever used, but it would have taken the railway in the direction of Harborne.

Towards the end of the walk, you go past the back of the Cadbury factory! Sundays are Dairy Milk days ;-)

This was a really pleasant walk to do on my way home from work on a lazy sunny Sunday! The canal carries on from Stirchley towards King's Norton Junction, but I decided to leave the path here.

Birmingham in the 1300s

At the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, there is a new exhibition about Birmingham, called 'Birmingham: its people, its history'. I haven't yet been to it but I've been reading the blogs of a curator there (read parts one, two and three by following the links). Part of this gallery contains a model of Birmingham - the detail in it is amazing - and they have just published a video blog-fly through of the model. It is on youtube here, but I have also embedded it below.

Exploring Medieval Birmingham 1300

After seeing the video, I want to go visit the exhibition even more!