Hawne Basin and Coombswood

Hawne Basin and Coombswood

December 2022

The Coombswood area of the BCN on the Dudley No 2 Canal is far from lost, but it's certainly rarely travelled apart from the local boaters heading into Hawne Basin for moorings, diesel or blacking.

Whilst it's not abandoned, the stretch south from Gosty Hill Tunnel is very atmospheric and justifies a page of its own, separating the images out from those covering the stretch of lost canal from Halesowen to the northern portal of the collapsed Lapal Tunnel.

The following images include the Gosty Hill Tunnel, the remains of the Stewart and Lloyds Tube Works and Hawne Basin, which used to be a railway interchange.

On the Dudley No2 Canal

Northern Portal of Gosty Hill Tunnel with tug boathouse

Southern portal of Gosty Hill Tunnel

Legging through Gosty Tunnel

Into Stewart and Lloyds Tube Works

Stewart and Lloyds

Stewart and Lloyds boat dock

Dudley No2 Canal with Hawne Basin

Burton Bridge - Entrance to Hawne Basin

Around the basin when used to store tubes

1966

1987

Hawne Basin 1987 - the start of its rebirth as a boat mooring

The last pit pony at Coombs Wood Colliery

The above photos have been assembled from various sources, including those freely found on the internet. My thanks go to the many photographers alive and dead who have contributed to this collection and in so doing, are keeping the memory of these lost canals alive. These images are reproduced for ease of research are are not necessarily the property of this blog, and as such should not be used for commercial gain without the explicit permission of the owner (whoever that may be).