Got Sir Ironside from Country Wide Cruisers at Brewood in Shropshire

Motoring down the Shropshire Union Canal

We went through our first lock, which lowered us by about 6 inches to join the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal

Our first big lock

Stopped in Tettenhall for the night

Some more locks

Approaching Bratch locks

Bratch lock, a double lock

with a bridge over the top of the second one

Trying to find a parking space for the night

Stopped at Ashwood for the night

Woke up to Balloons overhead

passing the Junction with the Stourbridge Canal

Cruising through some pleasant scenery

More locks – more walking

Entering Kidderminster

Through Kidderminster

Leaving Kidderminster – more locks

And on into Stourport

Through the docks at Stourport

And on to the River Severn

Big manned locks on the river

Moving down the river

Approaching Worcester

Waiting to get off the river

Through Worcester

Leaving Worcester behind

Stop at Tibberton for the night – a long day, and the pub didn't have any food!

The first of many locks today

Lock after lock after lock

Halfway

Yet more locks

And it was raining

Finally the last of 30 locks in two and a quarter miles

Stopped at Alvechruch

A long stretch without locks as we approached Birmingham

We moored in Gas Street Basin

Gas Street Basin

Learner driver!

Leaving Birmingham

Where the original Brindley canal rejoins the later Telford canal

Through Dudley

A few locks on the outskirts

last lock of the day

Stop for the night in Dudley

Leaving Dudley

Approaching Wolverhampton

Approaching Wolverhampton

Stop in the centre of Wolverhampton

Leaving Wolverhampton down a flight of locks

Rejoing the Staffs and Worcs Canal to complete the Stourport ring

Final overnight stop, back on the Shropshire Union Canal

A short trip back to Brewood and hand back the boat

Stourport Ring complete – 120 Locks, 95 Miles