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The Dudley Canal extension through the Lappal tunnel was opened in early 1798, and with progress being made on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, the Company obtained a third act of Parliament on 21 June 1799, which allowed it to raise more money, and included a diversion of the route further to the east near Lapworth, so that the length of the connecting link to the Warwick and Birmingham was only about.
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The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal was conceived as part of a network of canals which would allow coal from the Dudley Canal and the Stourbridge Canal to reach Oxford and London, without having to use the Birmingham canals, the management of which was seen as high-handed.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, coal and limestone were worked only on a modest scale for local consumption, but during the Industrial Revolution by the opening of canals, such as the Birmingham Canal Navigations, Stourbridge Canal and the Dudley Canal ( the Dudley Canal Line No 1 and the Dudley Tunnel ) opened up the mineral wealth of the area to exploitation.
From the roundabout with the A461 ( for Dudley ) at Great Bridge, it overlaps the A461 ( to Walsall ), crosses the Tame Valley Canal, meets the A4037 at a roundabout and goes under the Midland Metro near Wednesbury Parkway station.
* Dudley Canal
Visitors to the museum may also take a narrowboat trip on the adjacent Dudley Canal, into the Dudley Tunnel.
* Dudley Canal
** Dudley Canal Line No 1 ( see also Dudley Tunnel )
** Dudley Canal Line No 2 ( about half dewatered ; see also Lapal Tunnel ; Netherton Reservoir )
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He was also working on the Dudley Canal's extension, and another four canal schemes at the same time, and was the first great tunnel engineer.
When the Cabinet met on 16 February 1867, Disraeli voiced his support for some extension of the suffrage, providing statistics amassed by Robert Dudley Baxter, showing that 330, 000 people would be given the vote and all except 60, 000 would be granted extra votes.
A proposed extension of the Midland Metro line, which would run from Wednesbury to Brierley Hill via Dudley, would re-instate a tram service through the town centre, and is currently awaiting approval.
Ten years later an extension of the lease was granted to Thomas Dudley and Robert Wrotte.
It was named Shawmut Avenue, as an extension of that road from Dudley Square.
The initial portion of the line, which ran from Dover ( now East Berkeley ) Street to Dudley Square opened in 1901, while the extension south to Forest Hills was completed by 1909.
Herbert Dudley also lobbied for the extension of the tramline to Maroubra Junction in 1912, where he had built Dudley's Emporium which has just recently been redeveloped.
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Tracks 9 through 16 are orchestral, composed by Anne Dudley and performed by the Pro Arte Orchestra Of London.
To account for such oddities and evidence that she was ill, it was suggested in 1956 by Ian Aird, a professor of medicine, that Amy Dudley might have suffered from breast cancer, which through metastatic cancerous deposits in the spine, could have caused her neck to break under only limited strain, such as a short fall or even just coming down the stairs.
Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right ( a parody of old-time melodrama ), Peabody & Sherman ( a dog and his pet boy traveling through time ), and Fractured Fairy Tales ( classic fairy tales retold in comic fashion ), among others.
Charlton High Schoolers ( ninth grade through twelfth grade ) attend Shepherd Hill Regional High School in Dudley.
Arthur Bach ( Dudley Moore ) is a spoiled alcoholic from New York City who likes to be driven in his chauffeured limousine through Central Park.
Dudley consolidated his power through institutional manoeuvres and by January 1550 was in effect the new regent.
On 21 May 1553 Guildford Dudley, Northumberland's second youngest son, married Lady Jane Grey, the fervently Protestant daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and, through her mother Frances Brandon, a grandniece of Henry VIII.
In the early 14th century they became the lords of Dudley Castle, from whom Guildford descended through his paternal grandfather.
While Mysterio was Cruiserweight Champion, Spike Dudley turned heel after plowing Mysterio through a table and joined the other Dudleys before winning the Cruiserweight Title from Mysterio on the July 29 episode of SmackDown !.
From Line 1 in Wednesbury, the Brierley Hill Extension ( WBHE ) would follow the disused South Staffordshire Line, through Sandwell to the vicinity of the former Dudley Town station, then on-street into Dudley town centre.
Trams had their running through Cape Hill and then diverged to either take the route towards Dudley via the High Street or towards Bearwood, via Waterloo Road and Bearwood Road, terminating near the site of Bearwood Bus Station and Kings Head Public House.
Dudley, U. S. Army troops made the people, young and old, walk through winter-flooded rivers, mountain passes and narrow canyon trails to get to the Indian Agency at San Carlos, away.
The river continues to gather strength from Clent streams as it flows through Halesowen, before turning westwards through the southern part of the Black Country, staying within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.
It winds its way up through Langley and around the southern and eastern edges of Oldbury town centre, surfacing due south of Sandwell and Dudley railway station, from which point it remains mainly on the surface and is easily traced.
Captain Alfred C. Haynes and his flight crew, First Officer William Records, and Second Officer Dudley Dvorak, flight engineer, felt a jolt go through the aircraft.
It led to Dudley Boyz coming out to deliver a 3-D on Flair through the table but Jonathan Coachman ran down to stop them and was hit with a 3D on the table by Dudley Boyz.
The barony of Dudley, which could pass through female lines, was inherited by the late Baron's nephew Ferdinando Dudley Lea ( see the Baron Dudley for later history of this title ).
Also through his mother, Holmes was descended from Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife, Anne Bradstreet ( daughter of Thomas Dudley ), the first published American poet.
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While in London he stayed at the palace of Lord Dudley, on Arlington Street where he entertained his new friends ; he was received by the ministers, ambassadors and municipal officials of King George IV, and was generally feted by English nobility, attending concerts and pheasant hunts, and visiting public works ( such as the Tamisa tunnel which was then under construction and, ironically, collapsed after his visit ).
There are many canals in and around Dudley, the main one being the Dudley Canal-most of which passes beneath Dudley in a tunnel which lacks a towpath and is therefore accessible only by boat.
* Dudley Tunnel, a canal tunnel
This is the most recent canal tunnel to be built in the UK since canal excavation in Dudley, West Midlands.
At 3, 076 yards ( 2, 813m ) long it is the third-longest navigable canal tunnel on the UK canal network after Standedge Tunnel and Dudley Tunnel ( and the ninth-longest canal tunnel in the world ).
Dudley Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Dudley Canal Line No 1, England.
However, since the Dudley Tunnel is not continuous this status is sometimes questioned: ( the main tunnel is, Lord Ward's tunnel is and Castle Mill basin is ).
The tunnel was reopened in 1973, as a result of restoration, which had been a collaboration between local volunteers ( originally the Dudley Canal Tunnel Preservation Society, later the Dudley Canal Trust ), and the local authority, Dudley Borough Council.
A private Act of Parliament to construct the tunnel and associated canal, later to be known as the Dudley Canal Line No. 1, was passed in 1776.
However Lord Dudley and Ward started building a canal and tunnel, in 1775, to link his Tipton Colliery and his lime works to the Birmingham Canal Navigations, at Tipton, on the 473 ft Wolverhampton Level.
He later agreed to sell the canal and tunnel to the Dudley Canal Company.
Dudley Ward Way is a road tunnel through the south-eastern part of the Rock of Gibraltar.
To commemorate Brian Navarro, who was killed following a rockfall at the approach road to the tunnel, a plaque was placed at the site and the section of road, from the Admiralty Tunnel entrance in Sandy Bay to Dudley Ward Way's northern
Part of the Seven Sisters tunnel complex ; This cave is in Castle Hill, just behind Dudley Castle.
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