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The Birmingham Canal Navigations Society was founded in 1968.
An estimated 500 boats attended the 1969 IWA National Rally in the centre of Birmingham.
IWA 1978 National Rally was intended to be held at Windmill End on the Dudley Canal but at short notice was switched to Titford Pools (see photograph) on another part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations> because of the Netherton Tunnel needed urgent repair works.
A Stoppage of several months during continued during 1979 at Netherton Tunnel which was still closed from the previous year.
Around 40.000 people and just under 500 boats attended the 1982 IWA National Rally at Titford on the Birmingham Canal Navigations. The "National" had been held here in 1978 and this is the first time it had returned to a previous venue.
In 1992 concerns were raised over the Birmingham Relief Road which threatened to cut off the Ridgacre Branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and about 50 boats took part in a Protest Criuse but the branch was closed in November.
The Inland Waterways Association National Campaign Festival was held Pelsall on the Birmingham Canal Navigations in 1994.
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