Monday 23 June Wolverhampton Boat Club to Compton
Tuesday 24 June up the Wolverhampton 21 locks with Mike and Wendy
Wednesday 25 June Wolverhampton to The Black Country Museum
This sunny morning we motored steadily the six or so miles from Wolverhampton top lock to our usual moorings at The Black Country Museum. We saw lots of trains, a couple of Narrowboats, plus lots of lilies and weed: John needed to stop and reverse the engine to clear the propeller quite a few times. We passed lots of new housing developments, especially near Bilston.
Once winded and moored behind the museum’s Bottle & Glass pub, we had a walk round once the boat was sorted out, sealing the stern gland with grease, removing the shiny brass tiller, erecting the pramtop at the back and making the boat secure.
Once Liana’s brother David arrived, we enjoyed our 4pm trip on the Dudley Canal Trust tunnel trip boat, with the talk given by David’s son Ted, who now works for the DCT.
Later we had a lovely bbq and evening meal at David and Ashleigh’s house, where we left our car, before David returned us to Annie.
Thursday 26 June at The Black Country Museum
Friday 27 June at The Black Country Museum
After a rainy night, the clouds cleared and we entered the museum on the stroke of 10am. We admired all the shops at the bottom of the hill near the boat dock, and chatted to the shopkeepers before the crowds arrived. It was lovely. We watched the brick making demonstration on the way uphill for a coffee and cake in the new to us cafe up the hill.
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