It was a good mooring last night, the outside seating at the pub was busy until mid evening which just left two ladies on the table closest to us to constantly chatter loudly until closing time, not sure how they managed to drink their wine.
I did hear some voices around 3am. but all was fine. Here are the moorings, we were on the left hand side next to the pub.
I always like to take a photo passing under this stainless steel arch bridge, I am not sure if it has a practical purpose or just an art work, if it is just art then its one of the best I have seen on the system, this is a more distant view.
We managed to get all the way to the Community Moorings by the junction without fouling the prop and then just passed the moorings we picked it all up in the last 200 yards.
At Horseley Field Junction we turned to the left towards Birmingham. The going was much easier now with deeper water and we made much better progress. It wasn’t long before we passed the old rail interchange yard with its overhead traveling crane, I am quite surprised that it is still surviving but sadly slowly decaying. What history is being lost.
I think CRT must have been cutting the weed down the Bradley Arm as there was an awful lot of it floating on the surface slowly making its way towards Wolverhampton We were soon at Coseley tunnel, CRT have the headroom down as a couple of meters on their information boards, I wonder where they bought their tape measures.
Leaving this tunnel is one of the few places that I have stoned and when you look back its ideal for the little angles, with nice low walls to hide behind so you can’t photograph them and a good escape route it the hill if required.
As we approached Factory Junction I had to hold back as there was a boat coming round from the old main line, the first we have seen today, at the junction just before we turned to the right I could see another working their way up Factory locks, it was a hire boat and they passed us just after we had moored up John the Looks moorings outside the health centre. There is no shade here but with zero footfall we can have all the hatches wide open.
Our journey to date on Google Maps
Todays Journey
6¼ miles, no locks in 2¾ hours.
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