Based in Dudley for two nights, the tour is accompanied throughout by local historian and lecturer Dr Malcolm Dick. Guest lecturer, Paul Atterbury of the BBC Antiques Roadshow, also joins on the second evening to give a lecture about the importance of the canal network.
Visits are included to the Walsall Leather Museum, Stourbridge Glass Museum and the adjoining Red Cone Glassworks as well as full day exploring Dudley's Black Country Living Museum with a canal boat ride through the Dudley Tunnel.