After a short wait for a south bound boat to make its appearance, you have to peer down the tunnel to see if another boat is in there already by spotting its flood light, we ventured in.
but we made it through. Gek walked over the track the horses would have taken when this was a commercial waterway. Horses were used to move the barges prior to the invention of engines. Hence the track by the canal, even though the bridges. The barges were poled through the tunnel in those days, or may be the crew walked the roof to move the barge along, as they did in Dudley.
happy 70th birthday David -- keep up the brilliant work! best regards to Gek too...from DK
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