A little bit of a story related to that part of the canal.
On the 2nd July, 1927 a Olive Gordon Turner aged 18 years was walking along the towpath with her boyfriend when they met up with a James Joseph Power who lived in Heath Green Road.
Power had previously been a policeman and he allegedly arrested the couple for trespass but said he was willing to let them go for a payment.
Cut along story short it ended up with him striking the boyfriend and abducting Olive. The next morning she was found drowned in that canal.
Following his trial he was convicted and executed at Winson Green Prison on 31st January, 1928 by Pierrepoint the hangman.
Was more than stinky for Olive Gordon Turner