About a month ago I mentioned that we had borrowed this book for a short time and would lke a copy for the museum. Thanks to the generosity of Les and Dawn Waggett in Michigan, USA, we now have one! To explain why they had the book in the first place, Les started out in life in Chasetown, and has obviously keeps his memories alive.
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This Birmingham Canal Navigations weigh plate, approximately 14″ in length, from a narrowboat has been in the museum for some years now, having been purchased by our curator, but we didn’t know much about it until we had a canal enthusiast visit the museum, who made a search and found the following details for us:
‘As regards the BCN plate 478 this boat was gauged at Smethwick on 2nd November 1922 it was a 71’1” long open wooden boat (I.e. it did not have a cabin) and was owned by Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd at Coombs Wood Tube Works at Halesowen and was their No.3.’
Our thanks to our visitor, canal enthusiast – Martin O’Keeffe
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This leaflet has just come to light in our Archives section, I thought it is worthy of reproduction. Such a lot has changed!
(Click on the pictures to enlarge)
Thirty years on what’s left is a school, a housing estate and an Information Board – plus lots of memories.
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Considering that no trains were running yesterday (22-1-2017) we had quite a few items come into the museum, including this Rugley Powere Station nameplate from a Class 58 diesel locomotive. This is with us on loan for 12 months.
Other items included a Hornby ‘0’gauge clockwork model train set, 3 books on Walsall and another LNWR coal invoice, the coal coming from the Coppice Colliery, Norton Canes in 1892.
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The Museum has been lucky enough to borrow, for a short time, a copy of this book by Harry Hartill. This book has a passage of particular interest to us as it describes in some detail who drove the local engines of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company and where they travelled to around the local coalfields. It is written in a sort of ‘chatty’ style which is very easy to read.
The Chasewater Railway Museum would dearly like a copy of this book for our own collection, so if anyone should have a copy which they would like to donate to the Museum, please get in touch. email j.tisdale45@yahoo.com or phone 07786 323311.
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A very busy time for the railway and the museum as far as visitors go, but not that much behind-the-scenes museum work during December.
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The latest news from the museum – not as many visitors as normal months due to the perparations for Santa’s visit, when the Heritage Centre is closed.
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These photos of Chasewater Railway were found by Godfrey amongst a collection given to the museum. They show Sentinel, hopefully back in steam next year, DL7 and an old DMU, all towards the Chasewater Heaths end of the line.
What is interesting , for people of a certain age, is the poster for the Hippodrome Theatre – top of the bill – Billy Cotton and his Band – used to be regulars on the BBC Light Programme on the wireless!
Our thanks to Graham for the phot0.
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