Black Country Living Museum Sunday

 The morning started off chilly but when the sun broke through it warmed up.

We spent most of the day in and around the dock area today.

The museum was busy, BBC Radio WM were announcing that people could get in for free today if they bought a lottery ticket (so not quite free really) so the museum was very busy.

Charlie on Mothers's day carriage duties today, with a lovely spread of flowers on the back of the carriage

Chatting to a recent addition to the docks crew, I taught her all I know, in 5 minutes!

Who is that out on the main line?

Now you can see who it is

Views of the docks

Mother's Day pint of Banks's Mild in the Elephant & Castle

Keith

Black Country Living Museum

 A good day spent in the Black Country Living Museum today.

All quiet early in the morning

The canal basin

Still no crowds

Throughout the day we kept bumping into this young lady with her baby in a pram, and it didn't cry once!

The rears of some of the new street buildings

Workers Institue

Cherry blossom in the park

A view of the new industrial area from the park

The park being higher gives a good view over some of the new streets

More of some of the new streets from the park

Kettles boiling, teas up!

We share a portion of fish & chips & scraps from Hobbs & Sons, as a single portion is too much for either of us.

No Clippie Sarah on the bus today

The new entrance building form the museum site

Inside the motor museum

Inside the motor museum

Inside the motor museum

Inside the motor museum

Restoration work on an Austin A35 inside the motor museum

View of the museum site from the upper floor of the new entrance building

Keith

Nelson's Wharf to Black Country Living Museum

 A short run today into the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley where we will stay for the weekend and get to meet up with some more of our friends here that we didn't see today. They have been very busy building here since 2020, when Covid kicked off, lots of new building work completed, and still under construction. See captions for details.

¾ mile no locks in 25mins. what3words ///ranks.sake.link

Approaching Owen Street bridge

Tipton green

Entering the Dudley tunnel arm at Tipton junction

The Black Country Living Museum is in sight

Approaching the museum basin junction

Winding in the museum basin junction

Reversed back and moored near the Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust

One advantage of getting here early in the season and on a weekday is there are few visitors around to spoil photos, but it is school children day today

The new 'Elephant & Castle' pub from Wolverhampton

It looks really good

Inside looks good too

We just had to have a pint each of Banks's Mild

Some of the new 1940's/50's60's street still to be finished

The cream coloured cottages on the right are the iron cottages that have been moved from further up the site, the new building on the left still being worked on is the new industrial section

The new entrance building, with Jo chatting to Sarah

Sarah is on bus clippie duties today

The new entrance building as seen from the path from the new car park

The other end of the 1940's/50's60's street still under construction, but coming along nicely

Nice spot to just sit and contemplate

Dan the horse on carriage duties this afternoon

Keith

Windmill End to Neptune's Wharf, Tipton

 A chilly start to the day again, but an uneventful journey. Now moored at Neptune's wharf alongside the Black Country Family Practice, Tipton. We popped into Tipton before lunch, the Co-op is now a Poundland. 

5 miles 3 locks 1 tunnel in 2hrs. what3words ///picked.music.script

Netherton tunnel west portal

Tividale aqueduct, again

Dudley Port junction, again

Caggy's yard

Bottom Factory lock

Top factory lock

Factory junction

Now moored at Neptune's wharf alongside the Black Country Family Practice in Tipton

The Co-op in Tipton is now a Poundland, with Jo sneaking in my photo 😂

Keith