The basin was stanked off and filled in in the 1970's when the gas
pipeline was laid, latter modification of the towpath with the bridge
build effectivly "lost" the ebtrance. Good idea to reinstate.



--- In CanalScapeBCN@..., "brendamward"
<boundarypost@...> wrote:
>
> Hay Basin, Wolverhampton
>
>
> I have heard from Annette Grant that there are plans to reopen and
> restore Hay Basin, Wolverhampton. The basin was located at the top
> of the Wolverhampton flight, in the grassed area on the left hand
> side of the canal looking from the top lock towards Broad Street.
> Originally known as Albert Basin, it was one of the first
> railway/canal interchange basins to be opened on the BCN, being
built
> by the Company for the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway in 1850-51.
> It was later used by the LNWR. By the 1930s the basin had finished
> as a trading wharf and was a backwater where boats would moor while
> waiting to load. Gradually silting up it became too shallow to
use.
> In the first half of the 1970s the entrance bridge was removed and
> over a couple of years the basin and its surroundings were built up
> with earth removed from the ring road works and the whole area
> landscaped.
>
>
> British Waterways and Wolverhampton Borough Council are considering
> restoring the basin to make more moorings in Wolverhampton. This
> would be an excellent idea, as there is currently a lack of good
> moorings in the city, and one which we should support.
>
>
> According to Annette, groundwork investigations are to be carried
out
> in the next few days. Does anyone have detailed information about
> exactly when the Basin was filled in and with what material ?
>
>
> Phil Clayton, Chairman. BCNSociety.
>