After doing the eight Delpf locks yesterday before which we passed through the Merry Hill shopping centre where we stopped to eat lunch but managed to resist the call of the precinct in the  late afternoon we stopped on a small branch off the end of a feeder canal at the top of the Stourbridge flight which we thought would be a nice quiet place to spend the night but it turned out to be a very busy little corner with many dog walkers , fishermen and a meeting place for the local youth under the bridge but as it got dark they all  got bored and went home and although we were illuminated by flood lights from an adjacent industrial site it turned out to be ok  so this morning we reversed out and performed a ten point turn to entertain some of the local walkers and then went on to do the Stourbridge sixteen locks , tonight we are in Stourbridge  ready to explore the town tomorrow


A model display in the information centre at the end of Netherton tunnel which gives you some idea of the intensity of the industry that was once there but is now all park land and housing

half way down the Stourbridge flight there are two locks so near together they seem to be a staircase but in fact are worked as two separate locks but there is only a short distance between the two 

Nearly down the Stourbridge locks only  four more to go

                                Last night  moored up on the fens branch it looks peaceful now
                              just ahead of us is the limit of navigation where the weed starts