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The Lifford Curve public house was located on Fordhouse Lane. The name of the pub was taken from the nearby curve in the Camp Hill line .The building was badly damaged by a fire in May 2010. [ 107 ] The pub was later demolished and the site sold for redevelopment.
The west gate of the lock The east gate of the lock. Kings Norton Stop Lock (grid reference) is a Grade II* listed building at Kings Norton Junction on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal near its junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
The water of the two canal companies was kept apart by the nearby Lifford Lane guillotine stop lock, consisting of two wooden gates which moved vertically in iron frames. Now that both canals are managed by British Waterways , both gates are kept open, [ 5 ] and have been since nationalisation of the canals in 1948.
A substantial paper mill was built by James Baldwin & Sons Ltd in the 1860s on Lifford Lane, which was operational until 1967. Part of the mill building still exists as the Lakeside Centre. [20] Kings Norton is home to the world-famous glass manufacturers Triplex (now part of Pilkington).
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Lifford Lane guillotine stop lock on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, 200 metres from Kings Norton Junction, Birmingham. These gates are made of wooden boards and date from 1814. A guillotine lock is a type of canal lock.
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England portal; King's Norton and Northfield Urban District was a local government administrative district in north Worcestershire, England, from 1898 until 1911. [5] Much of its area was afterwards absorbed into the neighbouring Borough of Birmingham, under the Greater Birmingham Scheme, and now constitutes most of the city's southern and southwestern suburban environs.