Star City

Yesterday late afternoon the share boat that we assisted earlier moored behind us and were away at about 8am this morning down the flight so we knew most would be against us.
Last night we moored  just to the west of Walsall Road bridge on the same side as the services, there is room for at least 4 narrowboats along here, we normally moor at the top of the locks opposite the services as that is also a mooring but its on the lock moorings.
It was about ten when we set of in bright sun shine for a change, I only took one photo, this in the towpath right in front of the top lock cottages. I guess whatever it was is no longer used.

We had just done a couple of locks when a CRT chap turned up to check the levels in the flight, The first few were fine, 6-9” down off weir but it was a bit short further down so he went to the top to let water down. however we were clear of the low pound before the water arrived, we nicked a bit from the pound above. Things went well until lock 12 where we couldn’t close the bottom nearside gate, something bouncy on the cill and too far down for me to reach so it was a call to CRT for help. I must say they were on the ball. After speaking to a chap I was on hold for quite some time while he contacted the region for them to send someone out so that he could tell me what the wait would be. About 5 minutes later a young lady called to say he was on his way and 15 minutes later he was getting out of his truck. A quick chat and he agreed with me, probably a tyre on the cill, Out came his rake with about a 20 foot handle and up came a tyre. Job done. We were stuck for about three quarters of an hour which was good going, just time for lunch. Once we were off again it was down through lock 13 and along to Salford Junction, a slow right hander up to Star City for the night.

Today’s Journey

3¼ miles, 13 locks in 3¾ hours