Church Eaton to Gnosall (Shropshire Union Canal)

Bridge swopping tow path over

Leaving Cowley Tunnel

Going in Cowley Tunnel

We chugged off this morning, the sun was shining and it was nice and warm.  Up the canal to Gnosall, all 3 miles of it!  We went under the bridge that swops the tow path from one side to the other, this is to allow the horses which pulled the boats to cross over without swimming!! and through Cowley Tunnel , all 81 yds of it.   

Moored up at Gnosall just before Bridge 25.  

Chugging into Gnosall

Mooring at Gnosall

Canal at Gnosall

 Decided to go and catch the bus to the Aldi at Donnington about ½ an hour away.  The bus stop is on the bridge.  The bus came along and we got on.  Kev said “two returns to Aldi at Donnington”, the bus driver said “£14.00”, we said “how much”,  we got up off the floor and he said “you can have a day saver for £6.20 each”, and we could go all the way to Wolverhampton for that, wow!!That's country service prices for you!

We bought our tickets and to get our money’s worth, we decided to go to Telford for a few hours and go to the Aldi on the way back.  Well, we got to Telford and the bus station leads into the shopping centre.  We had a walk around, then tried to find the way out to the town centre, but couldn’t, all we could find was the car park.  So we asked at the customer information desk and she said that Telford was a purpose built town, built in the 1970’s and therefore there is no old town, the shopping centre is it, very strange to us!!

It was funny having all the shops, including banks inside, so we decided we had had enough of that, so we got the bus to the Aldi and did our shopping, then back to Gnosall.

We are staying here tomorrow as well, as we are off to Ironbridge on the bus again, that will be good.