BLACK COUNTRY CANAL waterways working boats 1965
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Canals were vital to the development of industry during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England’s West Midlands. They were very busy even into the age of railways.
But during the first half of the 20th century the old industries, users of canal transport, declined. By the 1960s very little commercial traffic remained. This is a glimpse of what had survived including horse drawn canal boats.
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so many jobs are just distant memories and totally alien to today's young people.
It's good to see doe Bank Bridge almost 18 years before I was born,
The early 60s must have been a very interesting time. There was still scenes like these, canals, railways, factories all still using similar work practices as they were 100 years before.
Superb film of a time long gone. Amazing how much industry was still around.
I love watching my local history and heritage I still use the Canals on my bike really enjoyed this video thanks
Fascinating, many thanks for posting.
Built in 1938, Narrowboat Towy still exists, and is listed by the Historic Narrow Boat Club.
Great video- it felt more like 1865 until that Brush 4 thundered past!!!
Amazing - thanks for sharing this wonderful footage 👍🏻
Another very interesting film, Thank you. I've used these canals on a couple of narrowboat holidays and, although the vast majority of the industry is either derelict or gone completely, it's still a fascinating journey. Although the pace of the canals is so much slower than most railways, they still take you to out-of-the-way places, inaccessible by road, like many railways between towns. That "tanker" was *very* low in the water; must have been some heavy goop they were carrying.
Got to admire the pure optimism of the fishermen.😂
Looking at this it was obvious that Britain was still living in the Victorian era.
Lovely video. We had a family holiday on these canals in 1996, when there was still some industrial activity (but not on the canals!).
Great, it's somewhat selectively gentrified nowadays, perhaps worth another visit.
Lovely video... i cycle this canal quite often and wondered where the power station was at Ocker hill.
Another wonderful video, this time of canals, and Alan’s bike having a ride. Thank you!
Even if the horse manure may have stunk a lot. It was not as toxic as the exhaust gases of the combustion engines today.
Another interesting film , thank you so much for sharing all of your old footage with us on this channel : ) Teddy
Extremely interesting Alan... Thank you my friend... Ps as for your small wheeled bicycle... A Moulton...
Yes, a Moulton. When you cycle along the towpath you are the fastest thing on the system - even if you are going more slowly than you would on the roads.
Cycled the canal to work often wondered what it looked like years, ago thanks, Alan for a interesting film
I think, these must of been some of the last working boats and barges on the network. It's a shame that the toll houses where demolished or vandalised beyond repair.
Priceless
Someone should do a layout like a model railroad, that would be very cool
at 3.47 you mention the bridges at Moxley, that's exactly what I said... they look identical to my memory
My grandfather Philip McDermott did this in Oldbury
wonderful
That part were the bike was, is the bridge by wards pottery and the pub, think it was called St Georges down Burns rd, then the barge goes along to Moxley bridges
T' ain't a barge - 'tis a NARROWBOAT ! You've made the outsider's common mistake.
1st thanks!
Canals always seem to have been to designed for a boat with an engine rather than pulled by a horse
If that was so, why do canals have towpaths? In many places nowadays there are more people walking on the towpath than there are riding along on bosats.
Alan Snowdon there's a stretch by me that goes into a tunnel comes out into a basin with sandstone walls either side ,then into another tunnel,wouldn't you have 2 tow paths
Some later built canals around Brum DID have 2 towpaths. Saved a lot of bother when horse-drawn boats in both directions were frequent.
I live in Tipton in the heart of the Black Country but it looks nothing like this now, more`s the pity.
my grandfather either owned or worked on a boat , in coventry probably the 40s/50s maybe 60s as well. his name was Monk, i believe his first name was Henry? any information would be greatly appreciated. peace.
Regarding Henry Monk, do you know which canal/region or perhaps a boat name?
@@AlanSnowdonArchive Henry was a son of Jack Monk who is my grandfather. sorry for the mix up in names. as is often the case in a broken family information on ancesters is often just stories. i know our family on my mothers side sailed the canals. coventry and rugby hold relations of mine. i have been asking for any info pertaining to Jack Monk. thank you for replying. peace. robert.
at 5.45,, those series of locks, look like the ones when you heading or around west Bromwich. I
Does that I on the end mean you intended to say more ?
@@AlanSnowdonArchive not sure mate, was 7mths ago when written it lol
I was brought up in Manchester I am 70 now, when I was a Nipper the last of the boats were in Trafford, where I lived all that we saw were the sad remains of old boats sunk and rotting, very sad, I have done a bit of canal work, and I am trying to buy one right now to retire onto.
Lovely video... i cycle this canal quite often and wondered where the power station was at Ocker hill.