Shaun shows you how to make a curry on the cut as we take a narrowboat journey through Wolverhampton. We start our canal journey on the southern end of the Shropshire Union Canal, taking a starboard turn onto the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal for a short distance, before taking a port turn on to the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line and tackling to 21 Wolverhampton locks. After a night in Wolverhampton, we head towards Tipton and moor at the Black Country Museum, close to the Dudley Tunnel where the canal scenes from Peaky Blinders are filmed.
Carved through cuttings and riding embankments, we are uncovering the hidden secrets of the Shropshire Union Canal by narrowboat. We leave Norbury Junction, the old Newport Branch stretching out towards Shrewsbury. On our way south we pass through Gnosall, Wheaton Aston and Brewood, uncovering the hidden secrets along the canal including the Belvide Reservoir and an abandoned second-world-war airfield near Little Onn. We moor at Three-Mile Post, almost at the end of the canal and make plans for where we go next.
Our emergency procedure kicks in as we lose a man overboard! Dillon jumps off the boat, so a dog rescue on the freezing Shropshire Union Canal is needed. We leave our mooring just south of Market Drayton and tackle the Tyrley Locks, which come with a fierce warning from other boaters. We check out the history of Tyrley and links with the chocolate maker, Cadbury. We pass through the longest canal cutting on the network, Woodseaves Cutting, with its high bridges before emerging at Knighton Foods factory, where Colin rediscovers the chocolate-making history. After passing Shebdon Embankment and wharf we moor up for the night. The next morning we make our way through Grub Street Cutting and che
Don't crash your narrowboat into canal locks - here's why! If you crash your narrowboat into canal locks it pretty much destroys your blacking paintwork! We set off from Nantwich on the Shropshire Union Canal and stop off at Hack Green to visit the secret nuclear bunker, so secret in fact that they won't let us in (it was closed) 😂 (Watch out for fuel boat Halsall!) We carry on to Audlem where the by-washes between the lock pounds are pretty fierce. So fierce that they smash narrowboat Silver Fox into the sides of the lock entrances, damaging the paintwork and making Shaun swear! After a few days in Audlem, we move on, through the Adderley Locks and towards Market Drayton where it's third t
