Here I am Rune
Distance 0 miles
Total 791 Locks 35 Tunnels
Running total mileage 1210.4miles
Had one of our changes of plan today and decided to stay in
the Walsall Town arm for an extra day so that we would visit the fleshpots of
Walsall! Surprisingly it was quite an interesting day’s stay as I can’t say
that I’ve previously had a particularly rosy view of Walsall but, like a lot of
places, it does have some hidden (or in the case of the art gallery, not so
hidden) gems.
To start with the art gallery, of which Walsallians can be
rightly proud. Wandering around I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted with
paintings and sketches by the likes of Picasso, JMW Turner, Constable, Degas,
Whistler, Monet, Manet and Goya. The sculptures were by Jacob Epstein amongst
others. All in all it is quite an impressive display and the gallery itself is
situated in a pretty good location, right by the canal.
I followed this by a visit to the house where Jerome K
Jerome was born passing a former pub now a.. hem…Gentleman’s Club which still
bears the scars of being bombed by a Zeppelin in January 1916. The story of
this does show a small level of incompetent navigation by the Zeppelin pilots
since they thought that they were bombing Liverpool. Apparently the town war
memorial is built on the location that the bomb fell.
So after a day of art, literature and history tomorrow we
move on.
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| The Bomb damaged 'Gentlemen's Club' |
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| Birthplace of Jerome K Jerome |
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