Old Haunts Re-Visited

Au Revoir Birmingham, une ville merveilleuse mais il faut que notre voyage continue! Un francais est arrive chez nous et il avait nous assister aux ecluses ( apres il a arrive a comprendre comment ca marche....) et maintenant, aux annees passe!




 Ok, so it's goodbye to Birmingham, fantastic place but we're cruising so off we go again! Aided and abetted by some manic Frenchman who spent a week trying to work out how locks work, we were heading back in time....

And so here we are, forty years on just exactly where we started from , outside the Netherton Tunnel.This is where our first narrow boat was moored and travelled no further, sinking to a watery end after we had spent our first two married years together, aww!
Il y a 40ans depuis nous etions ici avec notre premiere peniche, notre petite maison pendant deux ans quand nous etions les jeunes maries! le bateau a reste sans voyager, et finalement elle a coule..... 

 At last we are cruising through the Netherton Tunnel!!

And it's very pretty the other side on  the Staffs and Worcester Canal. This is the Red Cone Kiln, used in the making of Stuart Crystal which originates in Stourbridge.

An interesting museum (free! ) and no escaping the old canal boat thing.

Made from glass, of course, the blowing curtains represent the family life  enjoyed by the workers in the glass factory.

Now a craft and education centre, this window was produced by local school children working with an artist in residence at the Red Cone Glass Kiln.