Wrexham's Abandoned Canal
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Wrexham's Abandoned Canal
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Join me as I visit the Llangollen canal at Pontcysyllte aqueduct and work my way up through the Trevor/Trefor basin towards the Plas Kynaston canal. This once would have took the Ellesmere canal from Shrewsbury through to Ellesmere Port taking in a planned route through Wrexham to Chester where it would join with the completed section that now forms part of the Shropshire Union canal to the fantastic port near to Liverpool and the Manchester Ship Canal. It would have originally followed the Weston arm of the now Montgomery Canal to Weston Lullingfields and on to the mighty River Severn at Shrewsbury
What happened to the canal at wrexham which would have had a junction. near to AFC Wrexhams Racecourse Ground/Stok Cae Ras as it went through he valley to the ironworks, collieries, briockjworks and coal works in the FFrwd area? Wrexham has changed loads in recent years with massive development, the football club of course receiving a massive boost since Rob Mcelhenney and Ryan Reynolds AKA Deadpool took over the club, how cool would it have been if Wrexham had a canal near to the now Disney famous Club.
After FFrwd we visit Chester where near to the racecourse the old docks sat on the River Dee and Linked to the canal network, complete with it's castle and towers the canal would have once looked very different.
The recording of a Guinness advert changed the end of this video but I still explore Ellesmere Port as much as I can with a large ship sat in port.
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Absolutely fascinating. Your research really brought this lost wonder to life. I agree, it would have been a treasure if fully built and still in water to this day. Thank you.
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Great video...👍👍
@@thenoworriesnomad thank you
One problem of joining the Dee in Chester is tidal nature of the Dee, along with the propensity for fast flows on the river making life more than exciting for canal boats....
@@18robsmith it would be similar to the Severn, it’s all done by pilots who do it all the time. I’m not sure what benefit you’d have by going out with the tide up there, everything you can get to can be accessed by going up to Ellesmere
Port
Amazing how industrialized some of these areas were, but now used for agriculture or housing.
It’s almost a shame sometimes as often houses are built on lines that could be reopened but being a mineral line it wouldn’t be of no use in the future so actually it’s good in this case!
Really good account of the 'lost' canal. Thank you.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe no problem, thanks for watching!
Great piece about what was going to be a very challenging bit of industrial heritage to pull together. Well done in being able to trace the route and tie in the associated history and development (or not as case would be) of this area. It was a pleasure to watch as usual.
@@alexanderblades8078 thank you, I don’t know what I would do without google maps these days! It makes tracing even hard areas like these that little easier! Although even then I nearly ended up in the wrong place
Love the graphics.
@@PCMenten drone footage was a little difficult due to wind and tree growth so I had to try and be a bit more creative!
Wonderful, thank you for your work to document this section of canal. It is local to Me and as you mentioned in closing the history particularly Chester south though Wrexham - Ruanbon is very much lost in time, the map you showed (and on Wikipedia) is more like a rough draft with no real meaning as to the geographical true canal route intentions.
@@jonathanellis1842 it’s about all I could find. If you follow the bits that were built it’s fairly inline with what you’d expect. All I could find was a very very rough area for the junction, that’s kind of why I just picked wrexhams stadium as a point of reference as it would have been “a mile or so” away from there. It was a very difficult video to research, tithe maps may have helped but most resources I use the canal was already gone.
Really great expose of this lost and long forgotten canal. I have lived in the Wrexham area all my life and I do have a great interest in canal based history but I’d never even heard of this canal. The effort you have put into researching this video is monumental. Even though I’m now into my mid seventies, I still enjoy discovering historical facts about my locality. Thank you so much for your time, effort and diligence in sharing these important facts. I am now subscribed to your Chanel.❤
Very few people have, it was a real struggle finding the info for it, even trying to catch info from the locals was hard enough as they didn’t have a clue. So much of my info came from an old landowner, I found old posts in a forum but haven’t had a response, I’d have loved to have met up with them and walked the route with them
Very enjoyable and interesting video. Congratulations on the research and footwork which went into its making. Thank you.
@@malcolmrichardson3881 thank you :)
Thank you so much for the presentation and research that you have put into this. It is always sad to see areas where the canal has been lost to recovery. At the time it would have made sense I guess. When watching, we do sometimes get a bit lost with the map references. Perhaps a description of which line is canal/rail would be beneficial if you can spare the time? It has really helped when you show yourself pointing on some of the maps. Your work and enthusiasm is really appreciated.
It’s something I am trying to improve, the new maps and me pointing seems to have gone down better than other attempts but I am always looking for ways to improve things. The issue is where I draw the line, if I do too much the videos will be way too long, this video was already 10 minutes longer than I like. It’s a shame I can’t hand out physical maps before we start 😂
Best edited video to date, well done 👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much :)
@CourtAboveTheCut Apologises if I seem to be a bit of a pain in the arse regarding video/sound etc.
@@ontheroad_again no you aren’t, I appreciate the advice. Sound is 100% my weakest area. I watch videos trying to learn how to balance things but it’s something I struggle on. I’m slowly improving but kicks along the way always help!
@CourtAboveTheCut you really have come a long way fast. In my expert opinion as a professional viewer (lol) and all gear but no idea guy I can say you are up with the best doco/story tellers on here. Keep at it 👍
@@ontheroad_again oh thanks mate, that’s really nice to hear!
Hi. We live in the Poolmouth Area you mentioned at the Wrexham end, we live on Highfield Road that has an abandoned leg of the railway you mentioned. Dont know if this is of interest. We also think that the canal ran along the former Gatewen Hall.
@@stephenjones1504 I’m not actually sure how far south it went I couldn’t find any info, I’ll do some Googling later
I'm really enjoying your videos, as always & appreciate your hard work.
Your audio is still chirpy, if you have wind reduction feature on, trying to turn it off & and do a test to see if it fixes it.
PS drone footage is looking very smooth now, well done 👍🤙
I figured that out, it was a stupid issue, I had FPS set wrong 😂🤦🏻♂️
New camera and new mic, the first few videos I recorded were perfect but I’ve been struggling since, I need to figure out what I’m doing wrong with it. It was very windy on the day I filmed this so you could be on to something.
@CourtAboveTheCut FPS is a pain. It either all needs to be the same fps or multiples of, 25 & 50 together ok etc...from what I understand. There's very little info/tutorials on fps.
@@ontheroad_again it was my fault, I set it up on Final Cut Pro and then it was the same on every video, I just used to start without checking, at some point it must have changed. I always go 30 which was recommended to me by a RUclipsr friend of mine who makes a living out of this.
You didnt mention that the Plas Kynaston canal, basin and the connection as far as the Pontcysyllt aquaduct was built to connect the ironworks and brickworks at Plas Kynaston in order to supply the materials to build the aquaduct. Also Kynaston is pronounced 'Kin Aston'.
@@thedogfather5445 to be honest I didn’t know that, I have done other videos on the canal and where it’s likely to go on a restoration, thanks for the heads up on the pronunciation
@@CourtAboveTheCut my pleasure, Ian Kynaston-Richards
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Thank you so much for your support
Absolutely fascinating. Your research really brought this lost wonder to life. I agree, it would have been a treasure if fully built and still in water to this day. Thank you.
I think it would have survived as well, the only issue is the Llangollen survived because of the water from horseshoe falls, that amazing structure wouldn’t have been built if this canal continued