Mitch
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BLACK COUNTRY LIVING MUSEUMany body going to the show here 20th 21st june?
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Les
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No as I am at Canford Arena that weekend. 
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made-in-england
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Nope HMS Sultan Summer steam show and Brickworks 
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Wilescoman_123
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i shall be there exhibiting come say hello ! really looking foward to it !
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Mitch
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ill be there to exiberting nice to have a show in this part of the country
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steamyjim
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I shall be exhibiting on the Saturday
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Mitch
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only saturday?
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Poparod
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I will be there Sat and Sunday with wilescoman.
should be a good weekend.
looking forward to the fish and chips
see you there.
Rod
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Mitch
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me twoalthow there is usualy a very long line for the fish and chips 
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Mitch
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quick question to those who am going is ther a dress code i.e proid cloths?
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Poparod
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| mitodie wrote: | | quick question to those who am going is ther a dress code i.e proid cloths? |
sorry its late in the day we wore normal everyday cloths last year.
Rod
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steamyjim
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I am wearing a long sleeve shirt, black trousers, braces, waistcoat, pocket watch and a flat cap
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made-in-england
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so normall dress for jim then... 
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steamyjim
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| made-in-england wrote: | | so normall dress for jim then... |
If only
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Mitch
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| steamyjim wrote: | | I am wearing a long sleeve shirt, black trousers, braces, waistcoat, pocket watch and a flat cap |
same ere but my trousers are blue
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fcrammond
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I went for the Saturday only. A good day with most of the usual suspects present, and a new one Mitodie from Walsall. I was very brave and ran Emma/Milvus on the inky waters of the canal arm. She seems to have a magnetic attraction for water lilies so I spent a lot of time running from side to side via the bridge. Excellent exercise 
The Lord alone knows what lies beneath these waters but if she sinks I shall leave her in peace.
I even got SteamyJim to give a hand while I took photos
The place itself is well worth a visit especially for a boiler fanatic like myself. They even have a genuine haystack boiler which they reckon to be the oldest survivor.
meanwhile back in the Tramshed David Percival was demonstrating his latest Meccano Tour de Force
It does everthing the original did but you do need rather a lot of fingers.
Roll on next year.
Must buy a Weskit and a flat cap
Fred
For the benefit of our Colonial Friends I should point out that a Weskit (or waistcoat if you are posh) is what you would call a vest.
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logoman
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I love that first photo Fred, very still waters, lightly cut.
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fcrammond
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It's not so nice when you are balancing on the prow of the white striped narrowboat streeeetching out to a stalled boat with a fishing rod in one hand and inky blackness below. Still waters run deep and have many shopping trolleys within
fred
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Atticman
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Thanks for posting Fred, the water last time i was on the BCN was surprisingly clear, but was certainly both shopping trolley and rusty mattress spring positive 
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fcrammond
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I did notice that on my rather old Birmingham AtoZ the BCLM site was marked as "Sewage Works". It could explain the water quality
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steamyjim
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| fcrammond wrote: | | I did notice that on my rather old Birmingham AtoZ the BCLM site was marked as "Sewage Works". It could explain the water quality |
I was chatting to Len Crane who has been involved with the museum since the start and he was saying that everything from the limekilns backwards and down to the canal was a collection of various limekilns and a large majority of the rest of the site was a sewerage works
Great pictures Fred, thanks for the go with your boat
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fcrammond
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a sewerage works
Would that be the place that made the pipes?
Fred
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steamyjim
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| fcrammond wrote: | a sewerage works
Would that be the place that made the pipes?
Fred |
*Edit* Sewage
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Atticman
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Now when I was a very young boy I used often to go down the BCN, and I remember the water then was the most bizarre green imaginable, my Dad used to say this was down to the lime works, though maybe the sewage mixed in added to the aroma which also was rather bizarre!
Somewhere I think I may have pics (transparencies) of the canal colour.....
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fcrammond
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Lime plus sewage. Sounds pretty fertile to me. The green must have been algae. I bet the local fish were very fat.
Ah now, doesn't the BCLM do a rather good fish and chips?
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