Will need some guitars, vocals and some Lola drums!

That 's really interesting. Amazing even!!!. I miss Steven's superlatives. I've sadly not seen him in recent years, and we've lost touch.

@@paulcrompton6654 definitely needs some Paul Guitar

There's quite a lot of variation as it winds it's why from industrial locations to the countryside, and back again. Sadly it's likely to change dramatically if they get their way and build houses all along it. I've got some drone footage that I took in 2022 around Elton Reservoir and the canal between Bury and Radcliffe that I've been meaning to upload. That footage will become more valuable if those changes do go ahead, and will show what a lovely green corridor it once was.

I'm sure Steven would love to know more about that.

Fantastic lola x malls auntie xxx

Love ❤️

Fabulous xxx

I don't know. I suppose some of the ironwork could have been utilised for the war effort.

@@johnthecloud I know about Bradley fold.... But wondered about the wharf location at water street... As in making artillery there ..

I've got some videos up about the canal in that area. It's mostly infilled and built over, but there's still the occasional canal wall or coping stones to be seen.

@@johnthecloud When I saw Upper Wharf Street at first it did not make any sense to me it was by chance I found out about it on very old Map online. Its interesting discovering about history and when finding things I often wonder what they where for.

@@itsonlyme9938 you probably already know this, but the National Library of Scotland has a lot of Ordinance Survey Maps available online. They have both the ones from 1840s-1850s and also ones from 1890s-1900s. It's fascinating to see how things had changed between these dates. The canal is on both maps (as it was built in the 1790s) but you notice how much has changed in respect to buildings, roads, and railways in that 40-50 year period.

It's brilliant. I spent many an hour creating tunes with it. I tried running it on a PS3 (which does play a lot of PS1 games) but it doesn't work with it. It boots, and visually works, but the sounds just don't play. You have to use a PS1 or PS2. That's a shame because the PS3 has virtual memory cards. I do have one of those third party memory cards that has a lot more storage. I think the closest thing that's currently available on the PS4 is Dreams, but it seems very complicated, and as I've got used to using a DAW on my PC, I find the interface fiddly.

Hi Ian Sorry I've not been in touch. I didn't get your email. Are you still on the Icloud email address?. I'm still on Facebook messenger (although not on Facebook). Living at my mum's at the moment so not using the landline.

@@johnthecloud hi John. You still here? Did you send an email. I haven’t seen anything but would love get back in touch. Hope you’re well mate.

Hi Ian Sorry I've not replied sooner. Had a lot going on. I've emailed your icloud email address I hope that's still in use.

I have some videos of walks along the canal with Steven Parker uploaded on my KZbin channel they were filmed from 2007 - 2011.

Steven is from Bolton, so it's a Boltonian accent.

Hi Ian Doing fine at the moment. How are you? Do you want to email me on the same old email. It's a bit more private than on here. John

@@johnthecloud will do.

@@johnthecloud emailed with the one I have.

To be fair Steven only say this: "Unfortunately I did have a fall out with John and Margaret 10 years ago. I did apologise. Since then Margaret has died. I have invited the canal society to be involved with these videos, but I don't know if they will. This is not about falling out, it's about the canal" I don't think that can be construed in any way as gobbing off, unless you've already formed a strong and negative opinion of the situation between Steven and the society he founded. To put this into context: the canal society expelled Steven at a meeting he could not attend because his mother had just died. He informed the society of this, but they still went ahead with the meeting - instead of adjourning to a later date - and chose to expel him in his abscence, when he was grieving and unable to defend his position. That was - and remains - a despicable and cowardly thing to do. Since then the society has removed all reference to its founding member from its history. You can't even add his name as the founder of the society to the Wikipedia page without the society actively removing any mention of him. So no, I don't think it's gobbing off. If anything it's showing a great deal of restraint.