I know these movies were made for propaganda purposes but being an Englishman who has lived abroad for many a year I feel warm and tearful when I watch such clips like this. this is when Britain was Great.

@iainclark5964

4 ай бұрын

These are not propaganda films!😅

As I come from a working boat family called the best family I never knew that my grandfather Alf best was in it with my uncle John and Ron best where sitting on the roof of the Farley coming through the grove now I'm going to buy the DVD and cherish it thank Regards Mr Ian best

@IB-gb9kz

3 жыл бұрын

I ment the darley and the Ayr 222

@mandycook9037

2 жыл бұрын

I knew your grandparents and uncles and auntie grew up with them as I'm from an old boating family .

@IB-gb9kz

2 жыл бұрын

@@mandycook9037 Mandy thank you for your reply I was shocked when I sore your message it's been a long time ago since I started finding old pictures of my family I spotted a photo of my family in the pub at stockbrune it had my grandad in it I all so brought some dvds like there go the boat and before my grandparents pass he gave me his trophy from when he won at market harbour 1951 as u see I had worked on area and Archimedes with James I ask him on day if I could help and he sed u know about boat I replied I know enough and he was so shocked to see how I operated a fully load word so how was it for you growing up on the cut . I still speak to my uncle John not much of me dad as u probably know that Lucy and Margaret pass then George .do you remember my other uncle his name is little Alfi he die on the cut by falling in the drink whilst cycling

@IB-gb9kz

2 жыл бұрын

Do u know a old boatman called rocket Ron I met him at droitwhich festival I was surprised to see hi there .I do alot of canal art coz back in the seventies my pops Tort me to paint and I still do them to this day

How I’d love to turn the clock back to these gentler times.

Fantastic. Love canals the wildlife we now see the people you meet and most of all the slow pace you can keep when by canals thank for you time putting this great historical masterpiece.

Lovely pace, and most relaxing to watch. Thank you for sharing. ;-)

as good as we have it today I do miss the old ways, good jobs,a slower pace. we didn't know it though.

They never thought of the enormous potential for leisure use until the the canal enthusiasts forced them .

Sheer magic. Thank you

I wish my country was still like this :(

@dulls8475

5 жыл бұрын

So do I. We destroyed our way of life for a few trinkets.

@andrewchaston503

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

my dad use to swim in the aston canals i find them to be a fascinating part of his life

Excellent footage! Thanks for posting it.

Lovely,the locks are great !

All very idyllic but after the big freeze of 1947 there was a deliberate run down of the canal system in favour of road and rail then the winter of '63 was the final nail. Such a shame when we look at the navigable waterways of France, Belgium, Germany etc which thrive to this day.

Wonderful. thanks for sharing it.

It’s been pointed out as inefficient all the manhandling but remember trains and lorry’s at the time were all loaded by hand, and as for a slower pace of life, yes while on the move but it was hard and fast when loaded and unloaded as now time was money the quicker you loaded the quicker you would be on your way and you got paid by how many loads or miles you did. P.S. watch the speed of the chap in the mill pushing the sack truck and working all day probably 6days a week, I think we are better off nowadays.

Superb. Many thanks for posting this.

These children knew how their families made a living.

many fond memorys there thanks for reminding me

At 4:00 we see the 'Westerdale H' passing a swing-bridge. The vessel is registered in my home city. I was wondering if it was anywhere on the Sheffield& S. Yorkshire or Aire & Calder navigations. We certainly see the 'Tom-Pudding' compartment boats a little after at 4:50, when they go through a flood-lock. The lift in Goole Docks at 5:50 has a preservation order on it & remains to this day. YES! We used to EXPORT coal once-upon-a time! I thought the derelict locks around the 7:00 mark were Caen Hill near Devizes. I couldn't see any side-ponds. So I am guessing here: Runcorn locks on the Runcorn & Weston Canal. The staunch, or flash-lock at 7:30 is that on the R. Avon? At 7:44 there's a turf-sided lock that could be Garston on the Kennet & Avon. So many working practices that are long-gone & would give a modern Health & Safety man a fit. The idea of an electric tunnel tug has re-emerged at Standedge Tunnel, where modern batteries mean they don't need the overhead wire & trolley pole shown at Harecastle Tunnel. Sad fact is that on the narrow-boats the boatmen's children were very often illiterate, or nearly so.

@peterevans8471

Жыл бұрын

View of Westerdale looks like Parkend bridge on Glos-Sharpness canal.

Lovely, thank you.

Jesus what a life bringing your family up on a narrow boat. Looks romantic to onlookers I bet it was anything but if you had no choice.

@gazbee7251

7 жыл бұрын

diecast jam On the canal was a better choice rather than a workhouse or mine. Fresh air and good food

@MrDorbel

6 жыл бұрын

It was hard work and a hard life, but it was a life the boat people were very proud of. The men would certainly have carried on with it, but for the women it wasn't so good and of course the children got little education, although for them, it was a fun life!

@TheGodsrighthandman

6 жыл бұрын

It's pigging cold on a boat in t' depths of winter . . .

Wonderful & Fantastic Bolton and Bury Canal at Nob End Locks.its cool

Six minutes in, that's the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal at Nob End Locks.

And. now we have clogged roads.

Life is too plastic now

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Isn't Tyson Fury from this background??

@iainclark5964

4 ай бұрын

No

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This must have been a very inefficient and cumbersome way of handling goods, loading sacks and bags of salt one by one, not to mention the pilfering that must have occurred each time the cargo went through someone else's hands. Imagine going back in time and introducing them to the technique of putting cargo in steel "containers". Perhaps scaled down containers could have been used on barges and narrow boats.

@Uftonwood2

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps not so inefficient, for example, the K&A., like so many others continued to challenge the railways long after their evolution. The railway companies bought the canals, imposed high tolls to drive the off the canals. As for the handling; that coal transshipment from barge to ship didn't look the least bit inefficient.

@robertscott9905

3 жыл бұрын

Get a life