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A
site not very often seen these days. A horse drawn barge is demonstrated
by volunteer's from the Black Country museum. |
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| Right:Lord
Wards canal leading under canal street bridge and onto the Lime kilns where
the canal comes to an abrupt end. |
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| Lord Wards Arm was
built to service the Dudley Lime kilns and was completed in 1840. This canal
along with the Dudley Tunnel Branch Canal surround what is now the Black
Country Living Museum. The kiln site still exists today (seen above
left) and can be accessed via the museum.The Lord Wards canal originally
extended about half a mile where it used to meet the Birmingham Old Main
Line. It is now cut off where it meets the Birmingham New Road. In between
these this canal and the Dudley Tunnel Branch lies a boat dock with several
original buildings made up of old boat timbers. This typical boatyard like
many others on the Black country canals is capable of drawing three boats
out of the water sideways. They are also fully equipped to build or repair
boats of iron or composite construction. |
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Above. "Cactus"
- A Fellows Morton and Clayton vessel complete with its load of stone
sits moored up at the Museum steel works.
Right. The Dudley Tunnel Branch
canal with the Dudley northern portal in the background. From here electric
tug boats tow touring barges through the tunnel as well as carry out tourist
trips to the Lime Caverns . These are operated by the Dudley
Canal Trust. |
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| Above: The northern
Dudley Tunnel portal leading into Castle Hill the 1842 Lime caverns. Right
: The rolling Mill now part of the museum. A couple of butty's can be seen
in the distance. |
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nearby Park
Head Locks or the Stourbridge
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