Thursday 24 May 2018

Peaky blinders

It was going to be a long day at the tiller so an early start at 07:00 would get us through the centre of Birmingham. A cold trip of 17 miles and just 3 locks would take us just over seven hours. 




Some class graffiti among the' kilroy woz ere's'


Lego giraffe in Brum.

Bev takes Klara into the first Factory lock.







Widening of the towpath at Edgbaston tunnel



We found a space at Dudley basin for the boats, some of the more industrial areas in the scenes below were in the Peaky blinder series. The Black Country living Museum is an open air living museum that tells the story of the world's first industrial landscape.


They do a nice glass of mild in the pub















No comments:

Sunshine and Ice

Stop planks at Aston lock. Canal is frozen solid with 3" thick ice.   During last weeks cold snap we had a little frost forming on the ...