Who is Brindley place named after?
James Brindley
Brindleyplace in Birmingham, at the heart of the canal network, is named after James Brindley and there are statues of him at Coventry Canal Basin and in the Etruria district of Stoke-on-Trent.
When did Brindley Place open?
The first part of the development to be completed was The Water’s Edge – a canalside scheme of shops, restaurants and bars. One Brindleyplace, a five-storey office building was opened in 1995.
Who built the first canal?
But the world’s first canal created purely for water transport is an incomparably more ambitious affair. Between about 520 and 510 BC the Persian emperor, Darius I, invests heavily in the economy of his newly conquered province of Egypt. He builds a canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea.
When were Birmingham canals built?
The period between the 1770s and the 1830s is often referred to as the Golden Age of British canals. The first canal to be built in the area was the Birmingham Canal, which was constructed from 1768 to 1772 under the supervision of James Brindley from what was then the edge of Birmingham.