The Grand Union Canal in England - Salford Junction to Aston Junction.

The Grand Union Canal seems to officially start at Salford Junction in Birmingham soon going through Garrison Locks Flight.

Generally speaking the Grand Union Canal photos below show the bridges and locks involved on the canal's route south looking from both directions. However each time we have visited Birmingham the smog and unhelpful sunshine angle has meant we only have photos from Salford Junction to Bordesley Junction from one direction i.e. as if heading north. Sadly one of the "features" in this part of Birmingham is the appalling amount of graffiti everywhere - just about anything flat has been scribbled and painted on by these morons. Whilst wandering along the towpath we stopped to talk to some people - they said that much of the crap had been cleaned up at considerable expense but the delinquents had re-covered it all with their mess within weeks. This is a real shame because some of the old bridges as well as many of the canal-side warehouses etc. have obviously got lovely brickwork and shapes.
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In our version of the Nicholson Waterways Guide the locks which make up the

Grand Union Canal Garrison Lock Flight

(photos above) are shown numbered in a 60's sequence however these canal locks are actually marked as we have shown i.e. no.1 no.2 etc. - the book's numbering is shown in ( )s