Canal, Wolverhampton.

On Saturday 31st January 1970, one of the most vilely cold days I can ever remember, I set out to walk along the canal from Wolverhampton into the centre of Birmingham. I was repeating an expedition I had made some six weeks earlier. On that occasion I had packed it in at Smethwick. This time, even though I was wearing an ex-army greatcoat, I was so cold that I gave up at Dudley Port. I had to wait shivering on the platform of Tipton Station for about 45 minutes for the train that would take me on the first leg of the trip home to Bristol. I had taken a few photos along the way. I see that on some occasion long ago, when I was nearer to the event than I am now, I marked the grid reference of this photograph on the back of the original print. SO925981 would be somewhere around Monmore Green. I am inclined to doubt this now and would place the pic somewhere around Lanesfield. Perhaps someone can put me right.