To Gas Street Basin

Up early left our over night mooring which was outside of an area call Minworth it wasn't long before our first of twenty seven locks approached

Minworth in the distance

Lock 1 done only another 26

We continued to Salford junction here we did a sharp left turn and on to the Worcester and Birmingham canal here the canal takes on amuch more industrial feel

Here also starts the Aston locks a flight of 11 locks as it was all of the locks were with us but still hard work,

Aston lock number 1

Once we completed this flight we had a little rest bite before the next flight of 13 locks appear these are called the Farners Bridge locks what's unique about these are that they are under buildings in the middle of Brum.

Soon all of the locks were completed and we then turned into gas street basin and found a mooring space and then went for a well deserved beer.Gas street basin has so changed from the last time we were here over 30 yrs ago, it is now a cosmopolitan area of bars and classy restaurants, although we didn't eat out as we had lamb chops already defrosting, which when we cooked them and ate them were very nice.

Gas Street Basin

 

 

Hopefully we are going to have a quiet night even though I doubt if Denise , bless her as she worked really hard today will need rocking. See you tomorrow.