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Thank you for this and for the memories it evokes. I've lived in Basingstoke for the last fifty years (and thank you for the gems you've produced in this area) but I grew up in Newbury. We lived near the racecourse, about two hundred yards from where the Didcot line branched away from the mainline, and went to schools in Enborne Road not far from the junction with the Winchester line. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series, particularly the section over the Berkshire Downs. If you're looking for suggestions for future projects (you're probably not) what about the Lamborne line from Newbury including the spur line into RAF Welford (rumored to be used for ammunition trains by USAF when they were in occupation). Thanks again for sharing your projects and congratulations on the high quality of your videos.

Great to see my old stomping ground when I worked for a Building Contractor i(Simons of Chester) in South View Road opposite the chippy.circa late 1980s/90s.It was on the land the new flats were built by the Basin. The previous Builder who operated from the site was involved in a lot of building works in the City Often pop in to the chippy when im passing Chester. Run by the Deponios for 60 odd years maybe longer. Their family also had ice cream shops in Chester. Next to the Dee lock were several wooden sheds occupied by a Joinery Company Tilston Joinery, proprietor Chris Tilston. Interesting old tin church in Whipcord Lane that has some history..Fishing tackle shop in a converted terrace house in Vernon Street thats long gone...Great place to work with just enough time to walk around the walls of chester in a lunch hour..

Hi Bob, Very interesting view of a recently used line where much has been obliterated but then the vintage photo brings the station to life and we could see what once was. Your enthusiasm comes across at every step, even the gloopy ones!! Very unusual bridge and station buildings!! Thanks very much to Kath for sharing the conveyancing documents and old photos I'm not sure if I've seen wooden sleepers used as fence posts before, it did set me thinking where on earth did we get all that wood from to build all those thousands of miles of track? Very enjoyable to watch, well done!! Have a great week!!

Geoff Wheeler 1935 Fantastic, I was born &lived 500 yards fro the start of the Basingstoke canal, The council were filling the canal in from Eastrop lane towards Old Basing, but there were still some lock gates in place at what was then known as "Dead mans Lane" ,which is now at the end of the Riverdene estate. This was our playground climbing trees etc 1939/ 1943 I went on a weeks camping with the local St Johns Ambulance cadets at Nately Scures in what was the old brick fields, the canal still had water in it then(1948) Great series well done Geoff

My father kept a boat at the Locks in the 1950s. I spent a lot of time cycling around the area. Then, the frames of the lock gates could still be seen.

Great - really interesting & will look at Portsmouth with new eyes!

Brilliantly researched and explained. So much work and capital went into the railway network, and all before modern machinery.

Apologies if already mentioned... At 13 mins, where you suspect a bridge previously. I think name Iron Bridge Lane is a big clue 👍. I'm a member of the boat yard at the sea lock😊

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.

AHHHH Thank You my family live in Milton and so interesting . Regards Judy.

Interesting video. Absolutely agree that Castle Cement a big blot on the landscape.

25:11 Lon-yr-Orsaf - Welsh for Station Lane.

Thanks for taking the trouble to get the pronunciation of Llong correct - many people don’t make the effort!

That is indeed the pump house. I’m sure I remember the rotten remains of the sea lock gates in the early 70s Really good video, exactly as I’ve researched it too, using sea water was the only solution but polluting the city’s water supply was inevitable Doomed before it was open.

Another great explore Bob 👍🏻

Shows you how much you miss if you drive everywhere instead of walk, cycle, or train.

Great video. I often used to travel to Mold and beyond from 1973 to 1976. I'm 99% sure I remember a level crossing situated on the newly built link road from the old A5118 Mold to Penymynydd road, to the A541 Mold to Wrexham road. I also remember the crossing was controlled by barriers and flashing lights, and a fixed lower quadrant distant signal which was situated several yards away from the the crossing on the Mold side. Around 1974 the line was still being used for special trains carrying long, large diameter pipes to Rhydymwyn, to be used for the oil pipeline being built from Anglesey to Stanlow. It must have been the last workings on the line.

Very interesting video. Thank you 👌😄

Superbly interesting as ever. Half way point reached. Looking forward to the next bit

Another excellent film; your production quality sets a standard I can only aspire to.

Brilliant series. Great filming. Well done. So informative.

excellent

Very much enjoyed the Basingstoke & Alton videos. I believe the posts you keep coming across with the attachments would be tensioning posts. They would be used to adjust the tension in the wires so that it could be kept tight.

Nice video, remember seeing this from a distance when I was a boy...a friend of my mother, Nick, was the manager there.

Great video. I have walk around Winchester Junction. Fabulous to see ands experience.

Back in the 1960s my grandfather (who knew a thing or two about mining) told me the square chimney was the end of an arsenic burner. The other end of the flue was right down just below Wheal Kitty where there is a big patch of ground with no vegetation growing. Small boys were sent along the flue to scrape arsenic from the walls.

Thank you so much for producing this enlightening video. Chester has so many hidden treasures and we look forward to the day when the other half of the amphitheatre can be excavated. Thanks again 🙏

I went here in the winter and I’ve got to say it was entirely worth it!

Fantastic video Pastfinder. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to Part 3.

Hi Bob, excellent video!!. The builders of that church didn't have to look far for material!! Shame the sundial went missing maybe one day it will be identified and return home. Looks like there is, or was, a good water source in the town, talking of which I recently came across a channel you might find interesting Isaac Moreno Gallo. One of his recent videos explored the water distribution tunnels, from Roman times, underneath Carmona, which I visited earlier this year. Although in Spanish I think you can setup English subtitles. Great series, thanks for taking us around Silchester, I'm amazed I'd never heard of it before. All the best!! PS: Great cameo appearance from the snake from I Claudius👌👌

Really enjoyed this, i have walked all of the still remaining basingstoke canal so its nice to see the last bit.

I am not living too far away and enjoy a walk around Silchester from time to time, thanks for your film, now i can just watch this instead 😁. I always wondered why it was abandoned, then stumbled across a video on you tube called Roman Britain the work of giants crumbled - by fall of civilizations, which offers a great explanation of why many of the roman settlements were abandoned. It seems when the romans left those remaining did not want to habit where their past masters had lived.

Pretty certain that no "Tigers" ever graced that arena. Not that none were ever brought into the Roman Empire from their natural home range way to the East since the Romans certainly traded with the Indian Sub-continent, but such limited exotica would have been reserved for places closer to Rome. 😉 Lions, Leopards and Cheetahs though just might have made it before the Empire's appetite for their version of Fox-hunting cleaned out much of the Mediterranean area's big cats. 🙄😊

Calleva is an incredible place that evokes images in your mind of times past. Superb film with totally professional production makes it a joy to watch

Great update as always looking forward to the ones of Chester again soon.

I use to play on the Kingsworthy / Springvale to Worthy Down Halt line 50 years ago. Good to see it again and thank you for such a great revisit and explanation of all the features.

Wonderful thanks

Brilliant video. Thanks for linking your commentary and video, back to maps and old photos to make this very informative

Thank you so much!

OMG that brought back some memories. I was born and grew up in Kings Worthy when it was much less built up (BTW we always spelt it as “Kingsworthy” and you can still see that spelling on some old maps). Anyhow spent many a weekend / evening walking the old railway and playing in the pill boxes and worthy down platform and buildings. You would always meet other kids playing up there. You could walk for miles before they filled in the bridges. If you had carried on along Springvale road you would of encountered what we just new as the “Old Railway Bridge” next to legion lane. I believe this led to Alresford but I could be completely wrong lol. Anyhow enough rambling. Great video.

My family had a brand new council house (1930s) in Milton- a relative told me the canal was literally the road outside the house and they would go swimming in it. The newer houses across the road used to flood all the time because of it being part of the canal.

Thanks for the video. I have seen some of these sites, but its great to see them all linked together.

Great fun, really well researched, Dumpman Films did a similar job in 2023. You can access the embankment between the A34 carriageways just south of Kings Worthy station, you need to go under the bridge that carries the A33sb and A34sb over the river, that will give you direct access. I couldn't find any evidence of Kings Worthy platform, looked both sides in the trees.

Thanks for your work and research and amazing footage on this old line regards fred

I live in Eastleigh and found this a great informative video and so much modelling reference material, thanks regards Fred

The amount of bricks required to construct this Tunnel would have needed to be sourced from more than one brickworks, hence the different colours, obviously the Council now use this as a storage area.

With more investment by the LSWR & SR, Alton could have been an important junction serving the vast area of Hampshire,,,,There was no need to build, , at a considerable cost the Portsmouth direct line from Guilford to Portsmouth as the LBSC ran a direct line from London Victoria to Portsmouth at that time with many links to other towns in Sussex and Kent.

Fantastic viewing.

Looking forward to part 3

Straight road, shortest distance between 2 points.....yup must be a Roman road.