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@@JustinGeorge-x9q I’ll have to explore it when I’m up there next!

@@drend182 urgh swans 😂 they are like the cows of the waterways, they terrify me lol

@@TheHoveHeretic I completely agree! You are always welcome to plug for habitat!

Definitely, there’s a reason I haven’t deleted some of my original videos where were terrible recorded and edited with awful sound! I want people to be able to see the difference

@@QALibrary no it’s much the same at the moment but it’s still early days

@@malcolmrichardson3881 it’s lovely there, it’ll be better when the full route has water!

They are smashing it!

It’s a canal I’ve never explored, I’ve never even really researched it. I should really as I could get some pork pies at the same time

Yes our former MP was famous for appearing in photos for things she did absolutely nothing for. There was a joke every time a camera came out that she would turn up

It’s always good when all parties work together to produce something. One thing I see all over the country is issues with councils. Especially when it goes through multiple different ones and one is for the other against. We need more joined up thinking in this country

Thanks :)

@@PCMenten I wish I could hand out a map to all viewers 😂

@@db8444 that’s always my hope with these videos, to shed light on the amazing work done over the last few hundred years to build, maintain and restore these things.

Let’s hope the golden times are coming

I thought I replied to this, thank you! I watched some videos and thought I had it right 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@MattJarvis78 yes I’ve been told off a few times 😂😂 pronouncing place names wrong is a bit of a theme for me, you should watch my Welsh stuff 😂😂

I always think that if both the railways and canals survived another 20 years we would have amazing infrastructure in this country.

@ both BR and BW were set up by the government with a directive to prune their systems so that only profitable routes remained. There was no concept of tourist boating so no way it could be seen as generating income and, therefore, a reason to maintain or restore canals. I believe the only profitable canals were the broad cuts which supplied coal to Yorkshire power stations. BR was losing money hand over fist. Routes that probably had never turned a penny were in use all over the country. Profitable routes would become unprofitable when pits closed they served. The biggest problem was the number of employees. With today’s technology many rural routes might the fine but with signal boxes every few miles, crossing keepers and umpteen staff at rural stations they couldn’t. As cars got cheaper the slow, dirty trains became even less attractive.

@ whilst I agree with some of this it’s not entirely true, Beeching never recommend to close as many routes as what were closed. The issue was Ernest Marples who had a road building company and was in charge of Transport, the same guy who had to leave the country after dodging taxes for 30 years. He commissioned a load of work from rolling stock, new tracks, decorating stations so it appeared on paper that many lines weren’t turning a profit. He then used this as an excuse to close many lines which were useful because it didn’t align with his business

@ that’s perfectly true but BR was set up to make a profit and was under pressure to do so from Nationalisation Day. The railways were wrecked after being under government control during WW2 and the Big Four would have been due eye-watering compensation had nationalisation not happened. Buying them out was much the cheaper option but that left the Treasury with a big hole to fill to repair the system. It failed to do so. The other thing to remember was that *all* commercial transport was nationalised at the same time. The railways were very integrated, with buses, hotels and even a joint airline. All these, which improved profitability, were split off and British Road Services was told to compete. The ferries were split off. The hotels were split off. BR really never stood much of a chance, IMO.

@ they needed trimming, the issues were everybody built the same routes, they just didn’t need trimming as much as they were

It’s an area packed with history

I watched a few videos to try and get the pronunciation right but still messed it up 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@CourtAboveTheCut yes, I'm just being OCD ! 🙂We don't normally encounter "X" in similar names

You can take a boat trip from Cromford wharf, I’m sure if you asked they’d allow a private charter, I’ve walked from Gregory tunnel myself and it’s all in water. I’m not sure what parts are navigable, I know it is to the Leawood aqueduct

It’s ridiculous to stop there, it doesn’t solve the problem it was set out to achieve!

The issue is time, if I slow down and explain where I am too much the videos will be too long. I try to add maps etc to show locations as well as saying where I am. I highly advise downloading the maps on waterwayroutes as the restoration ones are free, it might make it easier to follow videos, I do mention them in this weeks video. You can download each individual canal

I’m with you, it’s always hard to believe when you are out in the middle of nowhere with massive aqueducts and viaducts to understand how these railways and canals were abandoned, it’s such a waste! So many people died building these colossal projects they should be at least maintained in memory of the sacrifices people made to feed their family

@@Gizepi this was recorded months ago on the old camera and equipment, I’ve got another 2-3 still sat in edit from the summer.

@@Gizepi thanks for the tips though :)

@@denisemardell3588 it’s beautiful up that way isn’t it. It’ll be even better with boats on a canal though!

Once beggerlea is done then they should be able to start extended to this area. It would be good to get it to the Reservoir. I’m not sure I’ll see the tunnel restored in my lifetime unless something significant happens, the canal past the tunnel is beautiful though so I hope I’m wrong

@@malcolmrichardson3881 its being restored from the erewash canal end

Interesting, Where would I be looking?

@CourtAboveTheCut you past a train bridge just before ironville they is a footpath to the road there they are either sides of that they are mostly hidden by weeds when I walked last month but seen loads of bridge stones they must be the missing bridges.

@@computercraig777 Could be from the accident , years ago, when some Trucks derailed and crashed through the parapet.

Well I’m talking about the canal not the region, you don’t say you are in a canal you say you are on it. You’d be in trouble if you were in it

@@anthonywhitehouse2295 these locks are massive, some of the biggest on the network. On others they are volunteer led, driven by charity funding etc. do you know the incredible cost you would add so wide beams could use them? It’s just not financially viable for a few extra boats

@CourtAboveTheCut maybe the routes we be more used if they were open to be used. Lack of investment and lack of vision and greedy ownership.

@ I agree with lack of investment. What do you mean by greedy ownership all these things are charity owned

@CourtAboveTheCut CRT Is a charity but with paid employment from the bottom up to the top , The Charity should be exactly that a charity. The money from boat down to the fishing licence should go directly into it. Its a bit of a p--s take claiming we need volunteers when they are a paid sector. OK I understand money for paper work to phone calls to lock gates but there would be more available.

@@anthonywhitehouse2295 CRT have very little to do with restoration though. All the trusts/societies are independent charities, nearly all of them are 100% volunteer led

Yes, the area would have been full of tramways, the video does mention this later in the wharf/basin, it’s all reused stone.

Who’s taxes? It’s all privately funded or part of a levelling up scheme. Do you have any idea on how much money a canal brings into the local economy? The network is worth £6.1 billion pound per year in both economic benefits and health and wellbeing, each mile is worth approximately £1 million pound per year to the local economy alone. The government fund less than £40 million per year, that’s equivalent to the income alone of a mere 40 miles of canals of 2700 miles of river and canal not including the probably 5x the amount per mile for savings to the NHS for all things associated with health and wellbeing that a having a green and blue corridor provides. Maybe brush up on your figures before making a clueless reply

@@CourtAboveTheCut Privately funded my arse, where do you think the bodies that give the money out get their money from, fresh air? Ultimately it comes from central government after the fat cats have got their greasy hands on their outrageous salaries & where does central government get their money from? You & me, assuming you pay your taxes & buy things. As for the Chesterfield canal until there are approved plans on how to join the stretch from the start to the Norwood tunnel to Rother Valley Country park it's just a big white elephant & vanity project wasting huge amounts of money that could be put to other use. Just remember the promise was they would open that section by 2027 the 200th anniversary of the canal so far they haven't even got their plans submitted.

@@WobblyRunner is it completely gone now? I was surprised to see it in your last video

​@Co urtAb ove​ @CourtAboveTheCut they were throwing soil back over it the last i saw

@ this time next year it should be back, George commented on here further down saying they are planning to remove it block by block and rebuild it as it’s too low because of the subsidence.

@@michaelmiller641 no problem

@@thepubliceye same story, it’s all volunteers now doing the work to preserve, mostly those who have retired and fancy a project.

@@stevem7868-y4l thanks :)

Thanks George for a concise answer, I look forward to seeing you progress the project next year. Great work so far by you and your team

Thanks so much for your support

It’s the UK we are health and safety mad

@@stevehill4615 potentially, I don’t know if there are any detailed plans of the gasworks, I’ve never seen any

I think it is just silt, there wasn't much contamination showing up in the earlier ground investigations at this location