Gallows Wharf Milestone

Peter Buck explains the latest milestone in the restoration of the Lichfield Canal at Gallows Wharf & Gallows Reach. Also meet Paul Jewitt and Bill Beresford who, with Dave Price, have done most of the brickwork.
(filmed before the latest lockdown)

[@Chriswizzv12]

Fantastic work, so nice to see a canal coming back to life.

[@jeanhawken4482]

It is wonderful to see canals come to life.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

Hats off to you all. Itd beautiful. Prayers for further success. God bless you from Bakersfield California USA.

[@sharonrimsza7960]

Wonderful. That should be a great thing to do these restoration projects. Congratulations on this project.

[@dennisporter753]

Looks Great! Top work everyone... thanks for sharing the update!...Cheers from Missouri USA!

[@TrevsTravelsByNarrowboat]

Once again great work, and great to see.

[@ichabodon]

Great to see the brilliant heritage kept alive.

[@regcook4087]

Bloody hell Bill great work well done. 👍

[@roehle9962]

good to see people do hard things for beautiful goals. greetings from germany :)

[@steveroperfilms]

Another cracking video. Cheers.

[@swampy6194]

You guys are LEGENDs.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

never underestimate the power of volunteers

[@skf957]

Sub'd, and I've seen a few of your videos now. Blown away by what is a pretty big civil engineering project, but being undertaken largely ( I think) by talented volunteers. It cheers me to see it. Thanks also for making and posting the videos.

[@LHCRT]

Thank you!

[@davidkoehler136]

beautiful, keep up your good work

[@mikenelson8786]

Well done, glad to see the virus is not stopping progress.

[@d.t.b3223]

Your all doing an amazing job, well done to all of you.

[@scopex2749]

SUPERB WORK TEAM!! When I was a junior school boy, I did a project on the Waterways of England and got a GOLD star! I have always loved the canals although never travelled along one in a narrowboat (as I wish I could do) only walked my dogs beside many miles of them!

[@richardford4570]

Great to see the progress so far and a special greeting to all the volunteers who are keeping those old skills alive .we come over to the UK every two years and enjoy driving all around while there . Maybe when it's safe to travel we will come and have a look. Well done and cheers from Rick and Jan in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 👍 😃

[@Jafmanz]

safe to travel..... that's a good joke! GET YOUR JIBS... all 30 of them!!!

[@Beatlefan67]

Fantastic job well done you chaps!

[@truckerfromreno]

Well done to the volunteers. I'd love to work on something like this.

[@richardthered]

Well done all, you are wonderful people. I am very impressed .

[@carolhutchinson3566]

well done. Thanks.

[@bernardmcmahon5377]

Excellent presentation thanks 👍👍👍👍

[@asbjrniden3621]

Soaking up every bit of information about the English canals I can these days, hopefully covid situation will be gone at some point so I can actually visit. Greetings from Norway and I would love to take a brick cleaning "holiday" at some point :).

[@LHCRT]

Brilliant, we could teach you some bricklaying too.

[@HighWealder]

Great work!

[@PaulBaird]

Brilliant work !

[@bobuncle8704]

“Brick by brick, my fellow citizens, brick by brick”

[@wildatlanticman128]

Great work. Well done...

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

I don't live in England, never seen one of these canals in person but I just love the heritage your preserving. I wish it could be used for more bulk transport, a very low carbon way to move goods.

[@Bugster42]

fantasticwork

[@barryrudge1576]

Wonderful work indeed

[@trsfc1595]

Excellent Work

[@JimmyBoogaloo]

careful, the intro music might have had my neighbours wondering what i was watching! enjoyed the video, cheers

[@jamesfoley6555]

Well done Ont., Cananda

[@roymartin7996]

Fantastic.x

[@MrBook123456]

good job

[@WeeShoeyDugless]

Is this the same canal which is being restored towards Ashby-de-la-Zouch? I use the M6 toll road on quite a few occasions and have been wondering when the new aqueduct will be connected up to a section of canal. Great work folks, you all deserve every credit for your sterling work.

[@LHCRT]

Hi Adam. Thar sounds like the Ashby Canal. No it's nothing to do with us. The aqueduct is and we are working in the background to overcome bureaucracy to link it up.

[@WeeShoeyDugless]

@@LHCRT Ahh, I thought perhaps the 2 linked up. Great work you lads are doing👍👍

[@mjallenuk]

Looking good! How much it's changed since I was last there!

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

Champions, what more can you say !

[@Sparky-ov1ot]

6:35 That's the attitude!

[@derekmills5394]

Give those lads a bolster to aid chipping that mortar off the bricks! Pity I'm a little far away to come help.

[@LHCRT]

A bolster as in a pillow?

[@derekmills5394]

@@LHCRT No, a bolster is also a broad cold chisel used by bricklayers to cut bricks, but also useful to split mortar off used bricks. Google images of "Bolster Bricklaying" The ones with a hand guard are best for amateurs!

[@davidrussell8689]

Fantastic project . Industrial heritage now being used by the community. Hope the vandals keep away .

[@gibbosj08]

amazing work guys if i was local i would love to help seems like a very long stretch for very few have you got any local businesses on board ?

[@LHCRT]

The Lichfield Canal is about 7 miles and the Hatherton almost as long. We do have support from some businesses but more would be appreciated.

[@gibbosj08]

@@LHCRT do you guys have a facebook page i would happily share for you

[@LHCRT]

Of course: facebook.com/LichfieldandHathertonCanalRestorationTrust/ Thank you.

[@LHCRT]

Hi again. If you'd like to support us, you could become a member of the Trust, our membership subscription is very low but it really does help us: lhcrt.org.uk/mobile/m.membersapply.html

[@glynjones8187]

Great work, I have a question as to how the wharf got its name.

[@LHCRT]

It's very close to the where the gallows one stood. You can read more about it on our website. lhcrt.org.uk/articles/restoration_gallows_wharf.html

[@glynjones8187]

Thanks very much for the reply. 👍

[@brynvjones6679]

Spiffing. Most come lookee see

[@chriss9177]

The big man with the white beard was clearly not ‘playing ball’ when the tall ‘community service’ one mentioned a good few times about having help with cleaning bricks.

[@sasproductions701]

i would love to see a video where they empty loads of water out of a lake or canal and clean it out and fill it back up with clean water. 1 place i would love to see cleaned is the river Thames. but its a muddy river and never looked clean. im from coventry and we have canal boats here and i use to watch rosey and jim when i was younger.

[@LHCRT]

Have a look on the Canal and River Trust channel, there may be a video of their team dredging a canal or something similar.

[@sasproductions701]

@@LHCRT thanks mate ill look into them. lately im a fan of CHAOS DIVERS and ADVENTURES WITH PURPOSE on youtube and i love there work and stuff. they are amazing guys.

[@firsteerr]

in these times of "climate change" and "green initiatives" it still amazes me how canals have been forgotten , how many tonnes of goods can be moved with a a series mini engine ??? or even a horse ?? sure its not instant with with modern computer programmes goods can be tracked and ordered with plenty of time for the bargees to get them there at a fraction of the "carbon" and man power you could replace ten trucks with a barge and use small electric vans to deliver to shops etc

[@traceypotts9425]

But why there only for the well off who can afford a boat to cruise about on or live on while everyone's struggling to eat or put the heating on what's going on here everyone's struggling going to food banks and ending up on the streets and your spending money on this shit your having a laugh

[@elainekayes8087]

Well said Tracy what about something for children