These Abandoned Canal Relics shouldn't be here!!
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Of all the explorations and adventures we have been on, this is probably in the top 5.
Welcome to another video in which we try to find some Wilts and Berks Canal remains. We walk from Wantage to Ardington and find some incredible canal remains.
We probably didn't explain what we meant by the title, but these locks are so far from anywhere that their survival has been assured. No towns for development, no roads, nothing for miles. Perfect!
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Paul, you transport us to the magical places, the ones we've been secretly hoping to find again, the long lost echos of our youth...
You are the Canel History Man. I love watching your videos. 😊
I sincerely hope that this canal and all its locks are/can be bought back to use. Paul`s videos serve to highlight the demise of the canals history. Bring it back for all to see and more importantly, use, as part of the UK s canals/boats history
Thank you Paul for showing the viewers those locks. It is just plain amazing that a wooden lock gate still exists and that a lot of the brickwork is still intact.
How fabulous to see that gate just hanging on and trying to imagine the characters working the barges and the horses pulling them, so poignant with the music, thank you Paul...
I am always amazed at what is still hiding out there in the countryside after years and years of neglect.
Very good video. Nice to see you promoting the Wilts and Berks Trust and encouraging people to get involved. The trust do a fantastic job but it is all bout the volunteers
Wonderful video! thank you so much -- and to the excellent video editor!
He did alright didn't he!
With you choice of incidental music and the superb footage, this is the most artistic video you have ever made. And a bonus Chinook too 😅👍
I am a new subscriber, living in Perth Australia at the moment. But born and bred Yorkshire man.
Love your “show” both you and Rebecca. Thank you for reminding me how beautiful England is and what still can be found if you look and walk hard enough 👍👍
Welcome aboard!
STUNNING! Lots of atmosphere as you took us along the canal and shared the remaining bits of wall and lock gates. LOVED it , one of the best you have ever done. Thank you.
Amazing, thanks for the legwork in putting this video together
lifelong railwayman never really into canals, but your enthusiasm got me!,that was totally enjoyable will be reading up on the canal system!!!
One of the many charms and peculiarities of our dear little group of islands is that almost every middle of nowhere used to be the middle of somewhere once .
What a beautiful old place. The Locks are as old as European settlement in Australia. Great Video!
Excellent video. When they built the M6 in the 1960s, the Lancaster Canal was disused so the built the motorway cutting up bits of the Canal. Near Kendal there are disused parts where you can walk along.
Love trekking with you every Sunday. Miss Rebecca's input. Cheers from across the pond.🌅
Quite a hike! I admire the stonework and brickwork, and two things impress me: (1) the fact that the route of the canal hasn't been obliterated by development, and (2) that there are public footpaths that (mostly) go where you want to travel.
Beautiful and atypical canal ruins. Wonderful finds, Paul.
All things considered, those locks are in an amazing state of preservation.
From how it looks the canal bed hasn’t been built on which bodes well for getting it working again.
We all love this stuff.
Sadly there’s a section at Challow which is taken by back gardens now. The line has also been disrupted by a solar farm further on and also parts of Abingdon.
@@landroversforever that’s a shame, but it has been closed for over a century.
@@davefrench3608 There are a lot of little diversions needed but they'll do it!
@@landroversforever it’s the sort of thing I’d love to be able to help with but sadly any form of retirement is an impossible dream.
Equitable life and Gordon brown have ensured that 40 years plus of saving is worth nothing
@@davefrench3608 I'm nearly 30 years away from my pension date. I'd love to retire and sit on a digger all day clearing out the canal
This is you in your brilliance! Detailed, curious, well prepared, making this extremely exciting to watch!
Danke!
Great vid as always!
Loved this video Paul. It's near me so, inspired by this video, I'm getting out to explore these old locks for myself. Thank you.
It's always awesome to find remains of old structures, would be nice to see the remains of this canal restored. :)
Hi Paul; thanks for this most excellent video I thoroughly enjoyed it. You had a great Indiana Jones vibe going in this one.
Old lock gates, sitting there for 110 years! That is truly amazing! No such luck on my old 'home' canal, the Thames and Severn. What a joy to watch this and be infected by your enthusiasm!
Still a few T&S locks with their gates in-situ. For one, Inglesham had its top gates in place until the recent restoration as did Eisey and a few others in remote locations.
What a great walk. Thanks so much for putting in the miles so we could see those fantastic old locks. Your enthusiasm is infectious. Top marks for this one.
nice one paul
The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust hope to renew as much of the Canal as is possible.
Very good. Thank you.
Fabulous stuff, thank you!
Brilliant video Paul , some lovely remains and honestly I hate roads without pavements as well.
I started watching your channel for the abandoned stations and never thought much about canals but this is absolutely amazing. Thank you!
Martin Zero got me here for the same reason. Glad he did.
@@ABrit-bt6ce me too!
What a great hike; the canal locks are amazing treasures. Thank you. Most canals had such a short working lifespan. The Paisley Canal where I live was filled in and replaced with railway tracks. The Paisley Canal basin is now Canal Street Railway Station.
This is local to me, we have been there, and can confirm it's a good wodge of walking!
Upside of filming in winter - no leaves, stuff stands out better. Downside - summer is dry! I poked around Ardington Lock quite happily as it was all dry then (but to be fair...I don't have kids !)
Fantastic Paul! Your face lit up when seeing the old canal, much like when I stumble upon old farmhouse ruins which is my favourite thing to find on a hike. 😁👍
Amazing to see the Locks and the size of the trees that have grown out of the side. Some good exploring there - you definitely got your steps in!
Thank you for keeping alive our forgotten canal heritage, it’s wonderful to re-live 🦆💕
Excellent video and hopefully get it rebuild
Always love to find remains of old infrastructure and piece the picture of what it looked like together, even if only in your head.
Great video!
Got to just love your love of your cherished hobby. Many thanks.
Fantastic thanks Paul. A helicopter, train and canal…….it can’t get better than that. Really enjoying the history you bring. Please take care
Always amazes me how much of relics are there to be found in the UK. This canal has seen more years in disuse than it has been opened. And still those amazing things to find. The same in your cities, how many old railway lines are still there to see or at least to point out easy where they have been... Completely unthinkable, here in The Netherlands. We always see fit for the old materials, can use the ground or just don't want the old rubbish laying around... So it is really hard over here to find any of this wonderful items. Thank you Paul, for another beautiful video!
There is something magical about remnants of structures. Covered in foliage makes it even better.
Defently survived the test of time!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
Another excellent video, but more importantly: Happy Christmas ;)
Very good video Paul 👍
Lovely brickwork ❤
Hey! I'm watching this in New York.
Hello NY
@@pwhitewick I love you guys. You are so foreign and so English. Merry Christmas!
Love finding stuff like that. We are the underground version of you :)
Many thanks Paul; good PR for the canal!
Its sad how these great engineering projects fell into disrepair
My dad was station at AFB Grove for a part of WWII. A a Yank this is not somewhere one often goes but we came to see the Chalk Horse at Uffington several times and love the area. Thanks for sharing the canal. Next back will have to look for it as well.
Such a service you do to recognise abandoned infrastructure, the C&R Trust would be so lucky to have you.
Thanks again for such an amazing video, you take me out of my busy city apartment into the country and show me there's more to life than than concrete jungles. ❤❤✌✌☮☮
Very interesting. It is like they just walked away and nature has just slowly reclaimed and decayed I'm places
If humans disappeared tomorrow, not much of our modern civilization would last more than about five thousand years. Yet the Pyramids would still be there. The only thing s that would last from our civilization would be some of the massive stone statues we've made. And they would probably be worshiped as gods by whatever lifeform that replaces us.
Great video
Well done 👏
Very interesting Paul, thanks for taking us along :)
I spoke to the branch chair in that area recently. I said that Lock gate has had 110 years nearly of abandonment. It was probably already 30 + years old by then (140), its solid oak felled possibly from a tree that was 200 years old (340), so Shakespeare was writing plays when that tree was an Acorn, but we can still see what's left today! History is amazing
What a brilliant episode...
Wow, what an early Christmas treat. Thanks for taking the time to research and walk so far! And how amazing that last lock is. Looks almost new
Thank you Paul.
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks
WHAT a wonderful find, documented great :-)
Really enjoyed watching this.. Love a good explore when you never quite know what you're going to come across.. I can see how much time, effort and dedication goes into making these short videos. Thanks again for sharing them with us all.. 😊
That was a great video Paul and Rebecca,what brilliant locks and workings still to see👍👌
thanks Paul & Rebecca you put a tremendous amount of work in to produce these video's , wish i had your video editing skills
Nice vid. Congrats to the "highly skilled editor"!
I'll pass that on to him/her.
What a great way to spend a Sunday morning. Paul and another great video. Thanks for taking us along.
Another gem! It's so impressive that so much remains of the canal. Really enjoy these videos.
Amazing Paul; thanks
Great to see my most local canal on here :D
Fascinating to see the innards of those locks.
Quite an amazing episode - my old neck of the woods - thank you.
Thanks Peter
Some lovely finds there. A pleasure to watch and see.
Beautiful. Thank you for that. Be wonderful when it's restored.
I've got pictures of when I explored Ardington Top Lock about 30 years ago and that tree was in the same position then. The rest looks very similar too.
Brilliant Ian.
I greatly enjoy your adventures discovering the beauty of the hidden remnants of history.
Tell you what, with the rain over the past month, I bet this has a really good flow! The Wey was bursting today!
That is really amazing - it will be an astonishing effort to have that back in water...!
Brilliant explore. You made us feel as though we were with you. Amazing how all those remains are still there and can be fixed up one day in the future. Brick work from all these years ago stunning. Thank you Paul. You never fail to entertain us.
Great video Paul , would be wonderful to see the canal restored one day .
Canals, helicopters, railways, it's a multi-mode transportation presentation!
Some drone shots would be amazing to further illustrate the scale of this
Agreed, not sure why I didn't... ah yes... military area.
Thanks Paul. I love the canals (lived on and owned a few boats) and it really saddens me to see a historic canal in this state. not sure how much the trust could manage to reactivate but indeed it would be ace to see it back in water and carrying boats again.
Well done Paul highlighting the work that these volunteers are doing. Maybe once this canal is in water, it will help with drainage & prevent flooding and help get water to be distributed around the country. Amazing to think that lock gate was the same one in use at the time of the start of the first world war! I hope they copy it, as a pattern, and someone gets it in their garden!
Top video
Merry Christmas, I love your content, keep them flowing :-)
Having worked in that area I can certainly attest to the statement musing at the potential for Wildlife!
There are a scattering of Great Crested Newt ponds in and around the old Wantage Station yard, as well as nearby to Hanney Bridge over the Railway.
Quite the spot!
Wow, amazing discoveries, proper industrial archeology. Top job dudes!
Another fantastic video thank you Paul! I've never been in that area exploring, just passing through for work with the odd geocache thrown in on convenient tacho breaks. Looks a fertile area for noseying!
Amazing how the infrastructure has survived for so long. Amazing places.
Thank you for taking us on these fascinating journeys Paul and Rebecca.
I used to live in Wantage at the top of the lane which leads down to the first lock you featured, and during my childhood in the late 70's and early 80's we'd often end up hanging around at the lock. Great memories.
Truly amazing and a huge lengthy restoration need - Excellent video Paul
This will one day be in water and boats using it .there are more boats on the canals now than ever before .excellent video x
have worked along from Williams f1 site on that track. never knew about the locks
Really enjoy these videos you create. Great to see parts of the old UK l would never get to see. Thank you.
Lovely to see these old transport structures. I have to admit that I watched this video in two parts. I took a break to watch Artemis splash down in the Pacific. So two different types of transport in one evening.
Another great video. The Wilts and Berks and Cotswold canals will make a great canal network in the South if they can be restored.
Cracking that one Paul! Worth the walk! 👍