Building a Canal at Lichfield
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Building a Canal at Lichfield | LHCRT | Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust
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A walk along and through the famous Lock 24 on the Lichfield canal, this amazing bit of industrial heritage has been altered to take a new route through. Join us as we explore the site and what will be done to take this long into the 21st century and help connect the Lichfield canal from Huddlesford on the Coventry up to the rest of the Birmingham Canal Network (BCN). Is HS2 holding things up?
We then jump from Gallows Wharf across to Fosseway Heath and explore the restoration as the new line joins the old from old lock 19 up to lock 18 and the abandoned railway and signal box with level crossing.
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Why is this Lock Fresstanding? - • Why is this lock free ...
Diverting A Lock - • Diverting a Lock | Lic...
Digging a New Canal - • Digging a new canal | ...
Restoring Nature Fosseway Heath - • Restoring Nature Fosse...
HS2 and the Lichfield Canal - • HS2 and the Lichfield ...
HS2 and the Lichfield Canal Update - • HS2 & the Lichfield Ca...
The Abandoned Lock of Lichfield - • The Abandoned Lock of ...
HS2 and Darnford Moors opening - • HS2 and Darnford Moors...
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Impressive solutions to some of the problems of restoring this wonderful canal - particularly the elimination of the hump-back bridge. Also, great to see the care being taken to encourage the regeneration of the natural habitat. Thanks for a very interesting update.
LHCRT are amazing at creating nature, if you follow the route so many of the sections are wetlands or ecology parks. It’s great to see the hard work paying off, I’m particularly excited to see Darnford moors grow in the next few years.
Modern history is fascinating 🎉
I love the Industrial Revolution, it’s full of achievements that propelled us
I’ve been volunteering to help restore this canal for a few years now. It’s great to see how much we’ve managed to do in restoring this. Never thought someone would make a video on it ❤
Thank you so much for all your hard work, please do say hello if you ever see me at any of the events!
Good Luck with your endeavors 👍
Live down the road and had no idea this was going on excellent video 👍
There’s some nice spots to explore down there, the Lichfield and hatherton canal trust are on here as well, they are well worth a watch and subscribe.
Good look at the old lock and in good condition
It’s not far off being ready, the issue is the stretch before fosseway Heath from the direction we walked is still waiting to be transferred from the developers then they need to fundraise for 5 locks and some bridges. It’ll be a while off so it’s all about keeping it maintained for now
Excellent show,great to document this.
Thank you
So good to see all this effort as always.... like that you included a look at the old Signal Box too. Its heritage, its social history; I appreciate you documenting these things as well on your travels/journals...
I’m trying to include more stuff from the area on videos, I think it ties in well to bring in the history of the area and why the canal was there and how it contributed
Alpha Lichfield taxi
Beautiful city
Good work
Nice bit of advertising there 😂
Thanks for that video
No problem thanks for watching!
A great walking and drone assistance this video trip. Always an interesting experience to watch and listen to. Thank you Steve. See you on the next! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
As always thanks for watching and your support! Have a fantastic week
Excellent video thank you. Can’t wait to see it ‘in water’ such an effort to overcome the blockages. I remember something similar in the middle of Stalybridge which takes the Huddersfield canal beneath Tesco I think!
Neither can I! I’ll definitely be on a boat through when it does!
Awesome 👍
Thanks
Good video, well explained.
Thank you and thanks for watching
Keep up the good work pal great footage as usual!! ❤❤
Thank you :)
Thanks!
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Informative and always interesting … it amazes me, narrowboating soap opera gets thousands of views, while videos like this that promotes new and valuable infrastructure being restored or redesigned, get a few hundred ….
I’m only a small channel, my views are going up all the time but it doesn’t happen over night. I’ve gone from getting a few hundred in a video to a lot of videos reaching 10K and over so it is getting to a wider audience. Of course it always helps when people share, like and subscribe, something that’s never easy to get!
@@CourtAboveTheCut agreed, I’m particularly interested in the Lichfield Restoration and always share your videos… the plethora of nonsense channels on here though is priceless, with hardly a handful of decent channels … liked shared and subscribed 👍🏼
@@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 thank you :) I’m trying to be different and have a different approach
It would be good to see the old route of the canal
2-3 weeks time
Keep going 💪 ❤
I’m excited to see what comes here this year, with Darnford moors complete they suddenly have a lot of spare time on their hands!
I’d rather my taxes were spent on restoring canals and locks than given to India that has a space race rocket program. 😳 we need to look after our past that made us great
It’s incredible we still give so much to India, they are becoming a super power yet we fund them 🤷🏻♂️
Well said bro😊
There's already the Canal at Lichfield, round the back end of ex RAF Fradley.
That’s the Coventry canal, the Lichfield comes off of that at Huddlesford Junction
Another excellent video, thank you.
As a matter of interest drone footage jitter may be framerate mismatch between camera's or drone data card not fast enough.
It’s sped up, sometimes it causes it, out of interest where was it in the video? I rewatch multiple times whilst editing and missed it. I only use extreme pro cards, they are the correct speeds etc.
@CourtAboveTheCut I've only had it happen when having different frame rate footage in the same edit, for example 24fps with 30fps & edit/project set at 24fps. Years ago I had a data card in a drone that did similar just by itself, I found out later the card was a bad clone of a SanDisk.
@@CourtAboveTheCut most of the drone footage seems to be jittering. I wouldn't worry as most people won't notice it. Just thought it was a mention with hopefully some info that may have helped.
Great video, I like the "reverse map zoom" at 8:09. Nice peak into the railway crossing box. Any idea what the plans are for that section, seems like the junk yard is in the way.
I honestly think that’s years down the line, the trust have so much going on with HS2, the A38 crossing, connecting it all together and then all the land and locks by the new developments. Once that’s all in place then I think this will then continue to try to get to the M6 Toll Aqueduct. I hope this makes sense, if you check the description of this video there’s a bunch of videos that may describe the places above
@@CourtAboveTheCut Totally agree with you, it's years away. I have wondered if it might be possible to use some of the route of the disused railway although in the past there has been talk of that being turned into a cycle greenway, as has happened on other disused railways, although that's been muted for years and nothing has happened. I guess if the existing bridge is still there it's so much cheaper to use it if possible, maybe the land will become available in 20-30 years time.
@@mattpotter8725 I had an interesting chat with some locals today, they mentioned how money has been spent on various bridges to keep the line intact despite it being moth balled for so long. I wonder if there a long term plan, if not it would make a fantastic heritage railway.
@@CourtAboveTheCut When I mentioned using the line of the disused railway it was only to potentially bypass this privately owned land, though I don't know what discussions have ever been had regarding the private land, before rejoining the original route of the canal going up to the pumping station at Pipehill.
@@mattpotter8725 they’d need some extra locks as it’s a good 20ft higher or more. I’m not sure how the land works further along where it could rejoin near to the Walsall road. I believe the railway is mothballed rather than abandoned though so I still think they may have future passenger plans for it rather than freight
I do know the man that owns that land and it has been his for years, they have tried to get the land but they have been turned away by him, interestingly you can still see most of 2 locks on the land.
@@madwhipet58 the bit after fosseway lane?
@@CourtAboveTheCut yes
@@madwhipet58 do you reckon he would ever let me explore the land? Just to look at the locks? Or is he dead against everything canal?
@@CourtAboveTheCut he is old he does not like people on the fields so propbably not, he is not against the canal but I don't think you will be able to, sorry
@@madwhipet58 thank you anyway, I have to ask these things. What sort of state are they in?
Will you think about stocking fish
You’d need to ask the Lichfield canal trust, they are linked in the description.
Create more flooding this makes sence 🤔
More flooding? Where did you get that idea from? Canals are man made channels that run down hill with a series of spill weirs that take excess water away and to other water sources, they very very rarely flood
🏗️🏫🏫🏫🏫🏫🏫New houses 🏫
Unfortunately so but the houses are happening with or without the canal, the canal trust have done well to take advantage of it to get the route through
Diesel barges ' diesel stains in the water ' us in inner city areas have cleaned up ' just stop oil only complaine about us ' we have electric cars everywhere ' in the coutryside they use vintage barges cars trucks motorbikes that dish out diesel fumes ' but its all okay to do in the country ' all these locks do is pollute ' theres no fish left in them nothing ' they just dont want to hear it or see it ' in the country ' & how much money this cost 🤔
Wow where to start with this, it’s hard to understand your points on a few matters so apologies if I’ve missed something. The way you’ve written it I’m not even sure if you are complaining when you say us or are being tongue in cheek.
Diesel barges - it’s 7x more fuel efficient to move on water than road, it’s 4x more fuel efficient to move on water compared to rail. More and more boats being built now are electric and many are converting. Most boats move very little, a couple of miles a month, so diesel use is very low, if you’ve ever spent time on a narrowboat you’ll realise how quick they are to heat up, you’ll also realise nearly everything on them is low volt and the vast majority of boats now have solar power. Making the need to run an engine in the day to charge the battery a lot rarer. In the winter most of the heating is done via a stove with wood, a zero carbon product if bought from a reputable source which it nearly always is now. Most areas have bans on certain woods and most fuels are smokeless or seasoned to stop the pollution.
Canals are corridors of nature, in fact they are massively highlighted as important to improving both biodiversity and net gain in current targets to go to a zero emission society. Have you visited a restoration? Have you seen all the habitat creation and planting from wetlands to woodlands that are created down EVERY single restoration I know of? Locks only pollute if not used, as soon as gates are open fish will migrate up and down the canal, a lack of oxygen is the only issue and quite a few canals have plans in action where they run air into the locks if they need to be closed off for any reason. Fishing is also a major part of canals, if you agree with the sport or not is a different argument but people wouldn’t fish them if there were no fish would they?
Just stop oil…. You lost my support when you desecrated a national monument and I know many others feel the same. I fully support action on the environment but people need to be thrown in jail for some of the pathetic acts of late. Just stop oil are alienating the people that should support them.
How much does it cost? Wow nothing, the current CRT network generates £6.3 billion pounds to the economy, health and well being benefits and nature etc, the government give £52 million pound in funding to CRT and that figure is going down, so even if you take out all of the other stuff the network still brings one and a half billion in more than is paid out. Restorations cost the tax payer absolutely nothing as well, all trusts have volunteer led groups who raise money via grant funding and local business, it doesn’t come from the government it comes from places like the national lottery heritage funds, it comes from the large business in the area that understands the benefits I’ve listed above.
Interesting video but the guy narrating it was awful. Couldn’t follow his explanation. Was a bit fragmented and all over the place. !
I’m sorry you feel that way, I work hard on making the videos as enjoyable as possible.
Where is King Arthas?
🤔
Persimmon homes…avoid like the plague. Plenty of bad experiences to be found online.
We need fields, not more houses to home cheap labour imports.
I don’t disagree with you at all. There was once a page on Facebook called something on the lines of persimmon issues. It was full daily of people complaining about issues the company hadn’t dealt with from aesthetic to dangerous. Persimmon bought the page out then Immediately changed its name to persimmon complaints, deleted every post and banned anyone saying bad things 😂 rather than deal with the public issues they bought their way out of it, that says everything you need to know about the company