Tipton's own Riviera ...

The Birmingham Canal arrived in Tipton in 1770 and over the next 50 years the town became the centre of a dense network with over 13 miles of navigable waterways within its boundaries. This led to Tipton being known as the ‘Venice of the Midlands’. At the nearest point to Dudley on the original Birmingham canal, warehouses and wharves sprung up and became known as Dudley's port; later becoming Dudley Port.

(Courtesy of Tipton Civic Society).