Thanks Si, I took that with an old mobile phone one morning whilst cycling over there.

A good picture

This stretch of canal looks beautiful and peaceful now but in the 1940s and 50s it was an hive of activity during the summer months, for this is where I and many others from Pleck Road and surrounding area learned to swim. The narrow part leading to the mill was were the young learner swimmers learned their first strokes. The grassed area on the left was always stacked with coal. The bridge on the right was the entrance to Parkes coal wharf - we used to dive off that bridge and off the lock gate which is out of view in the photo. There was no grass on the towpath in those days, so if you fell while in your swimming trunks arms and legs became badly grazed from the cinder/gravel/dirt path. From lock to lock the distance was not as great as the photo seems to suggest - I know because I and others swam from lock to lock quite often when only fourteen or fifteen years old. The old flour mill, the canal, indeed the whole area hold many memories for me.

Morgan's been here a few times! Lol

A view from the South Staffordshire Railway Walk in Wombourne, The sun is rising and slightly to the right of the sun on the hill on the horizon, one tree stands higher than the rest. This is a plastic tree in fact a telephone mast in disguise.

Wolverhampton's bottom lock near Aldersley Junction, At the very end of the Birmingham Mainline Canal.