16 June
Up and about by 8am, cooked breakfast to tackle the
Wolverhampton 21 flight of locks, should take about 4 hours non stop. Leaving Junction you can tell you are near a
city, graffiti and some cool art.
Arrived at Wolverhampton Flight, the first lock at the bottom of the flight and a
fisherman said that canal is empty. Kids have dumped the water over night. So
it was. Vicki walked up several locks – all empty. Rang CRT and found that the
travelling community had dumped the whole flight during the night. Delays of 3 to 4 hours or
maybe all day.
Plans have changed
We had a team talk and have decided to approach Birmingham from another angle. Shall go down Staffordshire & Worcestershire on to the Severn and up the Avon doing the ring we would have done after Birmingham. Should take a fortnight.
So off we set dropping through locks, not climbing and
running through pleasant country side. Vicki drove into a couple of locks.
Vicki driving and even managed to stop and collect Pete
Bratch Locks
Went through Bratch locks which is a set of three and have an unusual layout. They are manned through summer and lock keeper explains how
they are not feed from canal as they have pounds beside that get pumped into them.
Even though they are stairs they get treated as 3 individual locks as they have
a short pound between them. Very impressive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratch
Tied up for the night at Wombourne Bridge where there is a
pub (just for a change) and a Sainsbury (need batteries for cricket tomorrow). The Waggoner’s &
Horse pub dinner was 2 for 10 pounds. Well worth it, we gave it an 8/10 for meal though
value should make it 9/10.
View of home for the night, taken from bridge after leaving pub,
doesn't get dark until 10pm and sunrise is 4am. Weird
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