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Dog roses, yellow iris and white-and-yellow lilies on the Rushall Canal .
The banks have been built up because coal-mining subsidence has affected the surrounding
area. Indeed, a pair of 1948 semi-detached houses were braced together after they settled.
Plenty of anglers can be found here and there is a large rust-coloured silhouette of one next
to Walsall Wood Bridge, which takes the A461 over. Also adjacent is the site of the Eutopia
brickworks, bricks from which were used for building up embankments.
Industrial premises with security fencing frequently stand by the canal but reedmace and
broom soften the views and clumps of trefoil brighten up the stonework on the towpath side.
Bream, carp, perch, roach and crayfish are in the water, while herons, swans and kingfishers
also frequent it and flocks of noisy gulls wheel nearby. Minor bridges include the low Hol-
landers Bridge.
A sharp turn takes the canal westwards, away from industrial Aldridge, which was occu-
pied in the Stone Age, as shown by flint finds. Although the church of St Mary the Virgin
is 19th century, it has a 14th century tower. The commercial sites include Anchor Brook In-
dustrial Park. Aldridge was chosen as the site of Duckham's refinery and also had a cement
works. Cement made here was retrieved from a sunken barge to repair sunken canal banks.
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