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Another big week on the cut. The Black Country Living Museum is a great day out. (Reminded us of Sovereign Hill.) but a different era, actually it spans a number of eras. The only thing they couldn't recreate was the pollution, according to one of the guides during the industrial revolution you would never see the sun due to the smoke from all industry burning coal.  Must have stunk and caused alot of health problems. When leaving Birmingham we travelled through another long tunnel.  (The Netherton Tunnel 3Km's long).  And passed many more disused canals which have been blocked off and often built over. This took us onto the Dudley canal and a heap of locks,  From Dudley to the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal we did 31 locks and they were all against us, we were pretty tired when we arrived at Kinver.  (Bugger cooking, we had tea at the pub).  At the start of the locks we met a family where the young fella was showing some interest i...

We decided to stop a couple of miles short of the city of Wolverhampton at a little village called Brewood.  The holiday rules paid off again we didn't go to the canalside pub, we walked into the village and found the locals pub.  They had their Thursday night special on, two steaks and a bottle of wine for 20 quid. They weren't the biggest steaks we've ever seen but it was a good meal.  The moorings at Brewood are very picturesque and quiet. Friday (lock day) we headed for Birmingham and hit the twenty one.  That's 21 locks in 2 miles, all one after the other without a mooring.  With 8 to go we were looking forward to the end, a young local fella on his push bike said he would give us a hand on the lock.  We chatted with him while we locked and he decided to give us a hand with the rest.  It was much appreciated.  Turns out both his grandparents were born on boats. It was a long haul through the industrial areas, there were many closed off ...