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Today was the day for the Tame Valley Canal. Setting off from Tame Valley Junction we headed East, initially retracing our cruise from yesterday afternoon. We were filming again, all the way along the Tame Valley Canal, capturing everything going east. The canal consists of long straight sections connected by the occasional bend. It was one of the latest canals to be built to avoid the bottleneck of the Farmers Bridge 13 locks. 
Built with towpaths on both sides, and almost straight it must have seemed like a motorway to the early canal users. There are 13 locks at Perry Bar, sometimes known as the new 13, the old 13 being at Farmers Bridge. We had trouble with the water levels in some of the pounds being too low and having to let water down from above. Look how low we are in the lock, and the top gate is open so that’s how low the pound was. 
I was amused to see all the bollards at this lock – sometimes you can’t find one when you need one, then 11 come along at once. They were really there to keep road vehicles away from the lock, so it wasn’t British Waterways being extra helpful. We’re moored at Star City. tomorrow we head up the Garrison Locks, visit Typhoo (Digbeth) Basin, then up the Ashted Locks on a circular cruise, after our curly and straight days. Posted on Sunday, 9 September 2007 at 17:20 Comments (0) |
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