As the sign in Gosty Hill Tunnel said, Hawne Basin was just a mile further along the Dudley No. 2 Canal. Here we are emerging from the tunnel into a former steelworks.
Hawne Basin itself is accessed under a towpath bridge, guarded by a statue of a lad with a length of string round a bollard.
There's also a sign indicating that this is the end of the navigation, but we wanted to go right to the end of the canal. After all, according to Nicholson's, the natives are friendly.
Unfortunately the natives weren't friendly at all, insisting that we wind at the basin entrance and not proceed the furlong or so to the end. Not wanting to upset anyone we did as requested. This is as far as we got.
We didn't even go into the basin.
Another little bit to do another day.
3 comments:
So sad you caught them on an off day. We moored overnight there once and found them to be a great set of people. We talked to more people there in the first hour then in 6 months at a marina we stayed at one winter.
Richard
nb indigo dream
Yes, Richard, maybe it was just one person on an off day. We'll return!
It looks lovely, whatever, and what a grand way to enter the basin!
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