1.3 The Lost Loops of the Birmingham Canal Navigations

[@nicholasjones7645]

Bob on love the info will go and have a look around thanks

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Please do!

[@alphadog4802]

Enjoyed that ! My family is from Birmingham although i was born in America , it's like visiting home without the air fair to get there ! Cheers mate !

[@ugomuin1336]

Thank you for this additional information. I am planing a trip this week alone this line. I have taken a number of photos and the portfolio is building nicely of coloured, black and white and a couple using Claude Mirror technique used by landscape artist.

[@stephenbelshaw3042]

Fascinating ,canals have always interested me.The hard work and engineering that went into building them, is incredible .Thanks for sharing your knowledge of canals with us .

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Its a pleasure to make them

[@paulkneller3464]

Thank you for fantastic coverage of the Hatherton canal, you have put it into total perspective, having payed a visit today, it's helped us understand the situation Regards Paul & Wendy

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Its a good walk to the Roman Way Hotel.

[@Bill-ll5py]

Facinating. Many thanks for these videos. Can you do one on how the canal water was managed?

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Thats an interesting idea. I did an item on the BCN reservoirs in Narrow Boat magazine a couple of years ago - maybe one to transfer to video one day.

[@C...G...]

hello andy, we're really enjoying watching your videos and are looking forward to seeing more. would it be possible to leave the captions, pictures and the maps on the screen for a little bit longer, as it was getting difficult to take in all the information you were trying to convey? best regards, c. p.s. liked and subscribed! :-)

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Thats a fair point - they can be stretched. Mind you - you may have to wait till the second series to see the change.... The trouble with the central canals is the sheer volume of archive material available - a "problem" which reduces as we move further out.

[@C...G...]

Life at 2.3 miles an hour it's ok, I'll just have to keep clicking the pause icon :-)

[@putek77]

Thanks your videos my canal cycling will never be the same again😃

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Happy to help.

[@malcwhite]

The audio goes really quiet in places

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Thats an early video with poor sound - cured later on with better kit!

[@dudleyblokerave]

Great vid. Subscribed.

[@sallyu1]

Another interesting piece of history. We will look at things in a different light if we go down that way in the Summer.

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Gad you are enjoying the series. If you are passing through try and get a copy of Richard Dean's The Canal of Birmingham. It shows all the lost arms and basins that ever existed and you can identify all those blocked up junctions.

[@HighWealder]

Any chance of recovering any of these loops?

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

The Cape Arm is in water, but the loop aspect was lost soon after the new main line was built. The rest are all built over so - no!

[@CatchavistaAerial]

Great film great history

[@ScholarGypsyOx]

Dear Andy I went around the Midland Met Hospital building site a couple of years ago. The management of the hospital had some interesting thoughts about how to use the waterspace, as part of the open space around the hospital. Are you aware of this at all??

[@stephenbowker824]

Really enjoying working through from number 1 sat on the embankment to the south of Telfords aqueduct at Nantwich 👍👏 NB Fiddlesticks

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Glad you are enjoying them Stephen. I always knew I would look back at the early episodes and cringe - and I do - they look and sound so rough!

[@annie2950]

Thanks Andy. Very enjoyable.

[@jhvoojh]

Love the Brum and Black canals, known locally in the Black Country as the cut. When I used to be able to walk I would stroll along without a care in the world, drop off for the odd pint here and there.

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

They are a rich seam of industrial history Jimmy

[@dennisporter753]

Continued by watching the last episode again because of the history really intrigued me.. this episode was just as Great! I really enjoyed this series around Birmingham to no end! Cheers Andy

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Thanks Dennis - its a really interesting area and would justify some more videos on how the remaining bits used to look like. They will probably emerge as a series "In with the old, out with the new" following the old and new mainlines between Wolverhampton and Birmingham.

[@dennisporter753]

@@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 I was just thinking that it will be great to revisit the area again after watching this episode.. Thanks Andy!

[@pjg_77]

My uncle Peter used to be moored at Hockley Port. Lovely it was, would never know you were in B18

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Its a great spot - we have friends who still live there.

[@leegiles3672]

I used to work at hockey port moorings back in 93/94

[@ugomuin1336]

Andy, this is absolutely fascinating. I am working on a photographic project on the canals of birmingham (12 photos on the beauty and the sublimed). As part of my research I found Captain Ahaba. The information that you providing is absolutely fascinating. If could recommend reading material around birmingham area that would be great. And photographic source material. I have contacted B'ham central library, covid closed.

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

The canals of Birmingham by Ray Shill is a great source of history and there is a lot fo material on the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society (BCNS) website. A search for Kev Maslin should lead you to some excellent contemporary photos.

[@ugomuin1336]

@@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 Thank you for your help.

[@ugomuin1336]

@@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 The Ray Shill book arrived this week and it has bought a lot of information together, thank you for the advice, I wanted to let you that this is appreciated.

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

@@ugomuin1336 You are very welcome - Rays account is very detailed and meticulously collated. The other great source is SR Broadbridge's Birminghm Canal Navigations Volume 1 1776 to 1846 - its my historical go to book. www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/BIRMINGHAM-CANAL-NAVIGATIONS-VOLUME-1768-1846-Broadbridge/30143573785/bd Beware - there is no volume 2!

[@andrewjones5513]

I was born at Hill top west Bromwich , in a cul de sac called Leacroft grove, i remember that it was built on a filled in canal , in fact at the bottom of the gardens there was half of an old canal bridge

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

Its amazing how these old bits of history slip into obscurity.

[@andrewjones5513]

@@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 yes , i,ve just looked at your other video , it must be the canal that my old house was built on , just off coles lane along from balls hill and hill top

[@lifeat2.3milesanhour57]

@@andrewjones5513 That will be the Dartmouth Branch I think.