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Canals 1981 - BCN


A cheap off-season hire of Brummagem Boats' "Kleo" took in as much of the BCN as we could manage. Netherton Tunnel was closed and Dudley Tunnel too small, so we went the long way round to Kidderminster and back, followed by a trip right to the end of the Ridgeacre Branch, now severed by the Black Country Route at Swan Village.

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The north end of Dudley Tunnel (Netherton was shut and we were too tall for Dudley)

November 7, 1981



Passing the site of the Black Country Museum

November 7, 1981



Maggie Triumphant

November 7, 1981



The Bratch

November 8, 1981



The Bratch

November 8, 1981



The Bratch

November 8, 1981



The end of the Ridgeacre Branch (before the Black Country Route cut it off)

November 11, 1981



The top lock of Farmer's Bridge

November 12, 1981



Our 200th lock in a week!

November 12, 1981

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth