Yesterday it was the open day for the Coombeswood Canal Trip.
It was a nice event that took place in Hawne Basin. This is now at the furthest navigable point on the Dudley number two canal. Of course it used to continue through the long closed Lapal tunnel through to the Worcester and Birmingham canal at Selly Oak.
We didn't get chance to take any photographs at the event, due to the proximity of water to my phone :-) however we did enjoy a lovely boat trip along this section of canal. We hadn't yet walked this part of the BCN so enjoyed discovering the Gosty Hill tunnel.
It's a very small portal and won't have much room for the helmsman when navigating through it.
It reminded us a lot of the Dudley tunnel just further up the network.
Of course there is no towpath through it, so we had to walk over the top. The route was not difficult to follow but what we then found really surprised us. Take a look at the next picture.
That really is a vent for the tunnel, which takes up virtually the whole of the front garden of a house. It struck us as rather odd that a house would be built so close to the vent. I took another photograph to show that although they have tried to disguise the vent with a tree it is the dominating feature and only a few feet from the front door.
I wonder if the owners are canal fans?
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