Hi thanks for this Retired and live in Portugal and my friends wife next door was brought up on one of these she is now 76 and this brings back a lot of memories for her once again thank you
Hope the guys who sell fuel. Charcoal. And gas. Watch this video. And how to cover and protect the goods last winter bought charcoal always wet. Lovely video keep cruising
Modern narrowboat youtubers will have a fit at this. Boat in gear against the top gates, whipping the paddles up quickly, dropping paddles without a windlass...done properly!
All done highly efficiently with no wasted effort and they didn't abuse the equipment. Notice how he dropped the paddle but slowed it down before it hit the bottom.
Flip it took 4 _hours_ to load two boats with maybe 50 tonnes? Never mind the speed the boats travel at that must have been a significant bottleneck at a wharf.
From what I've read, that was a significant factor in the final decline of narrowboat transport. Actual speed of transit isn't such a big deal if you've got a continuous stream of boats moving. Also of course so much of the traffic was coal.
its so weird how it looks if you compare then to now . but you look at the washing on the line not far away is the smoke coming out the chimney how do you keep clothes clean. a great piece of our history
8:14 I absolutely love this clip. It disappeared from UA-cam for a while and now it's back. Is there more to it? I thought it was almost 30 minutes long. I bought British Transport Films on DVD and I would certainly buy this one as well
Fascinating bit of canal history. I wonder if the narrator is correct in saying that they didn't have to work on Sundays. I suspect that the competition from the railways by then probably meant the boatmen had little choice if they were to earn a living wage.
He said no need to work IF THEY DONT WANT TO....until the advent of the Milton friedmanesque "money is GOD and should never be refused" political dogma imposed on us by m thatcher, Sunday was, by consensual agreement a special day (sabbath as far as religious Christians were concerned) where most shops apart from newsagents etc, closed and any workers who DID work were able to demand time and a half (overtime rate of pay) nowadays people don't have the option..... "by then" the competition was coming from the new network of motorways, and the soon-to-arrive containerisation which put thousands of dockers on the scrap heap
Most of my early years where spent in & out of Bulls Bridge with my Grandparents. My Godparents where the first to train the idle women (Ely Gayford also from out of Bulls Bridge
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?" ua-cam.com/video/POO4lrTclNY/v-deo.html
I'm impressed by how dressed up the boatmen were...very dapper!
Hi thanks for this
Retired and live in Portugal and my friends wife next door was brought up on one of these she is now 76 and this brings back a lot of memories for her once again thank you
I’m so in love with this history of yours and cannot believe we do not have this opportunity here in America!
The Barge Canal in NY State has boats for hire, check out some UA-cam videos!
That take me back to when I was youngster. Many thanks.
Outstanding footage!
My mum and aunt were born on a fellow and Morton’s and Clayton boat.
Hope the guys who sell fuel. Charcoal. And gas. Watch this video. And how to cover and protect the goods last winter bought charcoal always wet. Lovely video keep cruising
Brilliant - love it -thank you tonycolzi -
Modern narrowboat youtubers will have a fit at this. Boat in gear against the top gates, whipping the paddles up quickly, dropping paddles without a windlass...done properly!
All done highly efficiently with no wasted effort and they didn't abuse the equipment. Notice how he dropped the paddle but slowed it down before it hit the bottom.
Well it’s certainly a different life on the canals today, what a contrast indeed.
Exellent footage😊
0:04 Wow, the Lichfield canal still on the map. What a pity they dismantled such many old canals which could have been used up to this day :-(
Love seeing these working boats actually used. Filled up with ingots of metal and piles of coal.
Excellent, thanks!
Brilliant thank you!
Much better without the distracting time code in the frame.
Excellent!!!
Now look at how the butty goes into the lock sublime skill from the steerer and boat captain
Fantastic video
Flip it took 4 _hours_ to load two boats with maybe 50 tonnes? Never mind the speed the boats travel at that must have been a significant bottleneck at a wharf.
From what I've read, that was a significant factor in the final decline of narrowboat transport. Actual speed of transit isn't such a big deal if you've got a continuous stream of boats moving. Also of course so much of the traffic was coal.
Amazing--what an amazingly simplier time.
i would love to see someone take a bucket of water that clean today, the water in canals are not replenished enough these days.
JACOB TAYLOR They were much worse then, all those boats had no black water tanks and every factory next to the cut dumped its wet waste straight in.
he was on a river i think so there is current taking things away.
its so weird how it looks if you compare then to now .
but you look at the washing on the line not far away is the smoke coming out the chimney how do you keep clothes clean.
a great piece of our history
robin blue starch blocks!
Thanks for the suggestion but there are copyright issues relating to the complete film.
nice music
this is pretty cool
8:14 I absolutely love this clip. It disappeared from UA-cam for a while and now it's back. Is there more to it? I thought it was almost 30 minutes long. I bought British Transport Films on DVD and I would certainly buy this one as well
Hello - this is all we have I'm afraid
Try Canals in Britain in the 1950's. Flm 5749
@lauriebooth i knlw where your coming from, today we should respect the water system,
i'm a boater myself and i would never drop the paddles either :)
Probably the difference between you and the boaters in the film is that you do it for pleasure, for these chaps time is money.
Fascinating bit of canal history. I wonder if the narrator is correct in saying that they didn't have to work on Sundays. I suspect that the competition from the railways by then probably meant the boatmen had little choice if they were to earn a living wage.
He said no need to work IF THEY DONT WANT TO....until the advent of the Milton friedmanesque "money is GOD and should never be refused" political dogma imposed on us by m thatcher, Sunday was, by consensual agreement a special day (sabbath as far as religious Christians were concerned) where most shops apart from newsagents etc, closed and any workers who DID work were able to demand time and a half (overtime rate of pay) nowadays people don't have the option.....
"by then" the competition was coming from the new network of motorways, and the soon-to-arrive containerisation which put thousands of dockers on the scrap heap
In the UK I believe you can still refuse to work on Sundays unless you are specifically hired to work on Sundays.
Good grief, they are loading aluminium ingots from Alcan made in England!!!
verry interesting,,do they tranceport fraight today,,thanks for uploading.
Yes ,mostly recycling and rubbish disposal
Yes ,mostly recycling and rubbish disposal
Most of my early years where spent in & out of Bulls Bridge with my Grandparents. My Godparents where the first to train the idle women (Ely Gayford also from out of Bulls Bridge
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
ua-cam.com/video/POO4lrTclNY/v-deo.html
@lauriebooth speed was everything then not like todays liesure
A floating sack of coal on water.
Rural Police.