Thanks Andy, i remember having a few pints in the Tontine many moons ago.
@rolo49452 жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting this up here, Aaron York of York House and Jonathan Worthington of Moorhall both my 5x great grandfathers who owned shares in the Canal company.
@lifeat2.3milesanhour572 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you are well into your family history!
@leonbarnfield4 жыл бұрын
Love it - that's my father-in-laws canal boat - "Victorious" outside the Angel at the end of the video!
@davidthomas68592 жыл бұрын
Great episode Andy ,walked these basins many times always interesting.Live in Hartlebury now thx 🙏 again.👍
@lifeat2.3milesanhour572 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. By a strange twist of fate I have just finished writing an article about the evolution of the basins as part of the 250 year celebration of the completion of the Staffs and Worcester Canal.
@davidthomas68592 жыл бұрын
@@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 Very interesting place Stourport,a bit different from when I lived by the Wyrley and Essington at Short Heath ,Willenhall.Thx🙏Andy.
@johnf86872 жыл бұрын
Great video I have shared it to the Stewponey volunteers page who look after the basins today
@lifeat2.3milesanhour572 жыл бұрын
I look back at that video and I could make a much better one today! Glad you enjoyed it!
@RobTaverner5 жыл бұрын
Another great video Andy. My dad was a keen fisherman and used to fish the Severn around Stourport. A quick story for you about the old Basin. My dad used to fish it as it was full of Tench. He used to get permission to do so. However, he came home one day distraught. A man off one of the boats had dropped a bag of lime into the basin whilst off loading it. Within half an hour there were literally hundreds of dead fish everywhere. This was in the early to mid 70's from memory. Sad event and dad did not fish the basin after that.
@lifeat2.3milesanhour575 жыл бұрын
I love these little bits of history Rob.
@freespeech36732 жыл бұрын
I recall that event. I was a 7 year old walking around the basin, hundreds of fish floating on the surface
@philippankhurst66805 жыл бұрын
A very interesting and informative tour of an endlessly fascinating place. The pristine condition of the place today is mainly down to the team of volunteer lock keepers and CRT staff who lovingly keep it looking good throughout the year (including me). We get many visitors who are interested in the port's history, along with those who just come to watch the operation of the locks. Your film can now be added to the list of where they can go if they want to know more.
@lifeat2.3milesanhour575 жыл бұрын
I love the place Philip - its a credit to all your hard work.
@unclegreybeard39692 жыл бұрын
As a boy during the later 1960's I was a volunteer helper to the lock-keepers in these docks. Originally the canal was intended to be built further upstream on the River Severn to the town of Bewdley (then considered the highest navigable point on the Severn), who's townsfolk refused to have "a stinking ditch" terminate there. The higher narrow lock is referred to as a key lock, and basically measures the width of boats intending to travel up the canal itself, if a boat didn't fit through it, it would not be allowed to leave the docks and sail the canal toward Birmingham, as it wouldn't pass the narrower stretches along the canal proper. For anyone who doesn't know, the full name of the town is Stourport-on-Severn, derived from the fact of it being an inland port at the confluence of the rivers Stour & Severn.
@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 Жыл бұрын
We love the town and its canal basins.
@dennisporter7533 жыл бұрын
Wow. What an amazing place! This has got to be one of my favorite episodes that hotel is absolutely beautiful.. those water basins are awesome... the 1700 and 1800 warehouse buildings are so cool..I think the new development is very nice.. I assume its apartments? .. too bad it's blocked where boats can't get in there.. I would like more information on that area if possible.. thanks Andy!.. Cheers from Missouri USA hope you are doing well!
@lifeat2.3milesanhour572 жыл бұрын
Ooh - missed this comment Dennis! I have since done a lot more research on the basins which will end up as a magazine article. Next time I am there I may remake it including drone shots.
This is very timely as I'm off to Limekiln Chandlers on Saturday so now armed with your description I'll have a meander around as well.
@danb24503 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr Tidy 🚣♀️ 🚢
@garrystacey70185 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video been through there many times on my boat thanks for sharing 👍🏻
@lifeat2.3milesanhour575 жыл бұрын
You are welcome Garry.
@crasher3035 жыл бұрын
Excellent walk around Stourport, we used to go from there on a river boat shuffle. I don't know if it is true, but Stourport was supposed to had one the first Chinese community in the West Mids. shame to see The Lichfield basin is still empty of boats. The river Stour was navigable up to Kiddy for a short while, until washed out by floods.
@beeurd5 жыл бұрын
The developers offered the mooring spots to people buying the flats, but not enough people took them up on the offer, and for some reason they were never offered to the general public.
@livvyolo13405 жыл бұрын
Hi. Lovely video, just one pet peeve that I can’t help but mention because generation of my family were housed within the tontine cottages. The pronunciation of Tontine isn’t Tonteen but Tont-eye-ne.
@lifeat2.3milesanhour575 жыл бұрын
I always have problems with knowing how to pronounce place names!
@mikehaldane40613 жыл бұрын
Just shows that location can be a plus point eventually.
@leesandford44033 жыл бұрын
My home town
@brynvjones66794 жыл бұрын
More fool me. Livid in Ludlow for 4 years and never ventured the 22 miles to Stourport