 It ran to some coal shafts.Housing had been built along its eastern edge by 1938, with the construction of Myrtle Terrace, and by 1967, over half of it had been filled in, and the far end was occupied by houses on Bartlett Close, although the middle section had been used to lengthen the gardens on Myrtle Terrace.Four more locks followed, after which there was a basin on the south bank which served the Wednesbury Oak Iron Works.