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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 9:53:57 GMT
Morning, can any of you experienced boaters advise as to a safe mooring close to the Wolverhampton locks please?I’m heading out of Birmingham and don’t fancy tackling the locks after the 14 mile journey to get there on the same day.
Ta muchly.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 9:59:23 GMT
I moored just above the flight, seemed safe enough. Not sure I'd leave the boat unattended there for any long period of time though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 10:16:35 GMT
Just before the top of the flight is the offside mooring with no access to towpath or road once moored and noisy but was fine for a night, service yard opposite also if you need water.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 14, 2020 10:17:27 GMT
I don’t really like mooring at the top. There are vaguely secure moorings outside the services just before the last bridge, but you are in a concrete cutting with noisy traffic above. You can also moor in the gardens right at the top lock. Like anywhere, it is probably OK but the gardens do tend to attract the local drunks. Alternatively you could moor at Tipton.
Not much help but good moorings about 3 locks up from the bottom in the long pound, or opposite Oxley Marine Services / by Autherley Jn
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 14, 2020 10:18:23 GMT
ps I’d recommend taking the old mainline out of Brum. much more interesting and fairly deep these days.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 10:19:23 GMT
There was tents with people living in them at the top last time I went though, that's why I opted for the offside secure mooring.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 10:37:11 GMT
ps I’d recommend taking the old mainline out of Brum. much more interesting and fairly deep these days. Is this the one that goes through Oldbury and Dudley? Or just the bit that runs parallel with the new stretch? With 6 locks on it. |
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 14, 2020 10:47:22 GMT
ps I’d recommend taking the old mainline out of Brum. much more interesting and fairly deep these days. Is this the one that goes through Oldbury and Dudley? Or just the bit that runs parallel with the new stretch? With 6 locks on it. The bit that runs parallel (more or less) with the new mainline and joins up at Tipton Factory Jn. You go up 3 Smethwick locks instead of up 3 Tipton locks, so no additional locks. Mooring in Tipton can either be at the museum, or a bit further on towards factory jn on or opposite the “John the lock” moorings ie just past the health centre. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 10:54:27 GMT
Thanks I’ll try that way 👍
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 11:24:06 GMT
Echo what Telemakus says, I did a small bit of the new line and it bored the crap out of me, straighter than the m1.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 16:24:53 GMT
Well I’m moored up at the top lock of the Wolverhampton flight after leaving Brum centre this morning. I followed the old canal and was pleasantly surprised how clear the canal was, shoals of fish and some really big carp swimming about. I stopped at a bridge in Bilston on the way through to call at midland stair parts to pick up a 3 metre mopstick bannister to use as a boat pole £18 instead of stupid chandlery prices, well I am a Yorkshireman 😂.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 18:31:29 GMT
To top the evening off I took the dogs for a walk down the flight and somebody had left the paddles open on the third lock and the first and second pounds were empty so I’ve just spent the last 2 hours refilling them. There was a boat moored up in the second pound with a nasty list 😂 nobody was on it tho it was all locked up.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 17, 2020 18:45:45 GMT
There was tents with people living in them at the top last time I went though, that's why I opted for the offside secure mooring. To be honest, I've never had a problem with the homeless people who live by the canals. They might try to cadge a few coins or a can of beer but generally they seem to have had the stuffing knocked out of them too much for them to be aggressive. Personally I think the level of homelessness in the UK is an outrage for a supposedly civilised country in the 21st century. |
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 17, 2020 19:28:43 GMT
There was tents with people living in them at the top last time I went though, that's why I opted for the offside secure mooring. To be honest, I've never had a problem with the homeless people who live by the canals. They might try to cadge a few coins or a can of beer but generally they seem to have had the stuffing knocked out of them too much for them to be aggressive. Personally I think the level of homelessness in the UK is an outrage for a supposedly civilised country in the 21st century. I agree but it would be wrong to equate the local drunks hanging out in the park with homelessness. There are plenty of drunks who aren’t homeless. Quite a few on here, for example. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 19:38:42 GMT
There was tents with people living in them at the top last time I went though, that's why I opted for the offside secure mooring. To be honest, I've never had a problem with the homeless people who live by the canals. They might try to cadge a few coins or a can of beer but generally they seem to have had the stuffing knocked out of them too much for them to be aggressive. Personally I think the level of homelessness in the UK is an outrage for a supposedly civilised country in the 21st century. Utterly agree. But homelessness seems to be cyclical (the individuals constantly changing) and not an easy fix ... doesn't mean more can and should be done but not always easy to know what. Equally does homelessness encourage addiction problems or vice versa ... not a simple answer. Rog |
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