Families flock to Brownhills to celebrate the best of canal life and its culture
The best of the Black Country and Britain's boating traditions were celebrated at the latest Brownhills Canal Festival.
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On Saturday and Sunday families flocked to see narrow boats and all the culture which is synonymous with canal life.
After a week when a 4,000-litre chemical spillage caused confusion and worries about canals in Walsall, the festival went ahead without any problems, on an unaffected stretch of water far from the exclusion zone.
Gail Meredith, from Stonnall, visited the festival both days at Wyrley and Essington Canal, Silver Street.
She said: "We come every year, I love canal life, the toxic spill was a worry but when we saw how many boats made it we were delighted it."
Alan Buckle, from Northamptonshire, who travelled to the festival, with two boats, one of which sells sweets, loved his two days in Brownhills.
