The Barnsley Canal: Route and History by Stephen Woodcock

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[@catherinerobinson1957]

Very nostalgic, I was brought up on Twibell street and have a photograph of myself and 2 friends on the stone block at 44:20. My father worked at Redfearns , mother had worked at the Star Paper Mill,and great grandmother decades earlier kept the barge horses just by the Keel Inn. I have spent many a happy hour catching Sticklebacks, tadpoles in the canal and watching newts in the boggy section (Ponderosa) between the canal and the Dearne.

[@ernestbailey9194]

What a lovely video. Didn't realise how long the canal was. I remember as a kid fishing for sticklebacks in the canal at the side of the Bridge Inn in Monk Bretton. & I remember the bridge at Royston with the 4 columns. I will have to have a walk where the Aqueduct was, as it looks like a nice pathway.

[@gstephenwoodcock8644]

Corrections: The building shown at the junction of the Barnsley Canal and Dearne and Dove Canal was a lengthmans house and not a pub. The phrase was corn up, coal down. Charles Waterton (3 June 1782 - 27 May 1865) was a naturalist and not a historian. A slip of the tongue.