Steve took me to a wonderful living museum. The Black Country Museum. The black country is an area in England that doesn't have a clean line showing where it is. It was an area that had a lot of coal and also different kinds of manufacture factories. The name stuck because of the clouds of smoke made things look quite black. Historically it is considered very industrial and poor area.
The museum had a bunch of different buildings all found in the area. They were deconstructed and rebuilt on the museum's site. This is a picture of the machine that pulled the elevator up and down from the mine.
It's hard to see but there is a tall metal structure that was the elevator....or at least the structure that held the pulleys. In the building to the right is where the machine in the first picture was housed.
A closer view.
A bit about the area.
Down by the docks.
Italy is famous for it's canals but it is actually this region that has the most in the world (says Steve). The canals were the way the region was able to transport all their coal and steel works.
A shop yard by the docks.
We took a spin on the canal boat.
This is looking up. These holes were made not only for ventilation but to also track where the canals were. The white calcium deposits that you see are sooooo slimy!
Right before you go in.....
These canals are very small, underground and about an hour long.... don't go if your claustrophobic.
The canals are so narrow that the way they moved the boats were for people to lay down where you enter and use their legs to push. Those guys musta had big legs.
Now we're in the town. Some of the work animals.
In the bar. Where I experienced "Dandelion Burdock". Interesting and it grows on you.
For all the people needing help with conversions.
In school.
I was a top student!
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