Last night we ate at Bistrot Pierre and had a window table overlooking the canal. They were filming Peaky Blinders on the canal between us and Broad Street Tunnel. They had extended the length of the tunnel with scaffolding towards Old Turn and then shut the canal off with a blackout sheet. We couldn’t see the filming and action but we could see the steerer of the day boat they were using getting a bit irate every time the film crew’s boat hit the elm.
BBC Birmingham has put some video on their Facebook page
We didn’t lose anything off the boat last night and set off about 10 this morning, this time carrying on round the Oozells St. Loop and out onto the main line at Ladywood Junction to head north.
At Icknield Square Junction we turned left to go round the loop. The old buildings just inside the loop on the left are still standing and a contrast to the new development on the square. It looks almost a subterranean world.
The development on the island is still ongoing and all the open space has now been consumed.
Where ever we go around the Birmingham area we come across these canoe things. Kings Norton Junction, Soho Loop, Oozells Loop, B&F.
Construction work has taken off on the north side of the island, I wonder if anyone has ever moored on the mooring rings they installed along here .
I also noticed these old buildings at the back of the square, I have no idea if they are still used or are listed.
A good blast on the horn and straight across to the Soho loop. Its hard to believe how close you are to the City going round these loops, lets hope Birmingham keeps its green spaces.
Back on the main line and past the first of the toll islands, this was the most overgrown one we passed.
By now those few spots of rain had gone and we were in bright sunshine and that continued for the rest of the day. With the good light I even managed a photo inside Galton Tunnel with its concrete lining.
At Dudley Port Junction it was hard left again and down under Tividale Aqueduct, for once I didn’t get a blade full, into Netherton tunnel and 800 Meters from the far end a boat entered coming the other way, the only boat we have seen moving since we set off this morning.
Once clear of the tunnel we winded at the junction and reversed back to moor against the park with the geese, we like to moor the other side between the visitor centre and the junction but there was a boat already there . Just at the end of the moorings between them and the tunnel is this notice, so it looks like boats on the moorings are outside the area.
By the time we had finished our lunch the boat moored on the other side had departed, so we moved across and moored in the spot they vacated near Windmill End Junction.
Todays journey.
10 miles with no locks in 3¼ hours
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