The Black Country Museum

Inside the Museum area there are several canal basins with preserved working boats (there are no modern type narrowboats) and recreations of canal loading sheds, storage barns and other canalside paraphernalia including this boat repair yard.

The inner basin is set out as a timber loading facility.

Another view of the narrowboats which are resident at the Museum.

The access to the basins is through this cast iron lifting bridge. It is manually operated.

Elsewhere the Museum is served by a working trolleybus route - there are currently three buses working, all Sunbeams, one from each of the Walsall, Woverhampton and Derby systems. Derby 237 is a Sunbeam F4 with Roe bodywork which was built in 1960. It was retired from active service in 1968 when the Derby system closed.

Here 237 passes the cast iron houses - you'll have to visit the Museum to find out more about these, at the start of its half-mile journey down to the village ............

........... and returns past the drift mine exhibit.

The village terminus is next to the tram depot.

Leaving the Museum, we headed off towards our real goal of the northern stretches of the BCN so retraced our steps (?) through Coseley Tunnel, passing under the Bilston Road section of the Birmingham Metro Line 1. OK, it's not a canal picture, but I was standing on a canal bridge - so there!