Dudley Canal Trust had some VIP's today.

MP Marco Longhi and West Mids Mayor: Andy Street took a gentle ride into the depths of underground Dudley, with the help of Dudley canal Trust.

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00:00 So Dudley Canal Trust and you never know who's going to pop out of them tunnels and Marco

00:06 Olongi and Mr Andy Street. How you doing gents?

00:10 It was a wonderful experience. I invited Andy along today going through the tunnels. It's

00:15 been a couple of years since I've done it. Great to have a reminder of what it was all

00:19 about all those centuries ago. Fantastic to have Mayor Andy Street here with me and we're

00:25 here to commemorate the fact that it's English Tourism Week.

00:30 So Marco, thank you for the invitation. One of the more unusual things in my day but it's

00:34 actually been one of the most brilliant things I've done because you just reflect on the

00:38 work that was done to build these caverns and why it was done for the industry here

00:43 and now it's become just a wonderful, wonderful tourist attraction so if you've not been,

00:47 get down here. And you can easily see why we were the birthplace

00:50 of the Industrial Revolution.