168 The National Waterways Museum: A Hidden Gem In Ellesmere Port
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- This time on Life onboard AmyJo we arrive at the National Waterways Museum but still the weed hinders progress. We take a look around the Museum and at some of its history including the firey destruction of an unusual warehouse.
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Brilliant Vlog, you should have heard me at home shouting at the live feed on the day, look at all that weed ! As Port Lass born and bred, it was a lovely to see you showing what was the heart of our town and from where our towns growth came from in such a positive light. The drone footage and the 360 camera give such excellent views and perspectives of the whole area. Really enjoyable !
Ellesmere Port gets bad press sometimes. Not all of it is as bad as people make it sound a long of the town is really worth a visit.
@@LifeonboardAmyJo we’re very much a town of 2 halves nowadays, we’ve had huge developments where Cheshire Oaks and the Coliseum have been built. The regeneration there has been good for jobs and opportunities, but as that’s grown the town centre has become the neglected and unloved area it now is. When I was young it was a vibrant market town that was always bustling, people would come for miles for the shopping and it was the town centre you couldn’t park in at weekends. It would be good to see the town centre regenerated now, so many wasted opportunities. My Great Uncle was the first mayor of Ellesmere Port and played a huge part in the development of the town centre and the building of the Civic Hall and the library, so sad to see the town he worked so hard to develop fall into neglect.
Another fantastic vlog Steve & Chris. Thank you for the kind words, it was my pleasure to come down and help through the locks that day. I love the museum, so much history in a small space, and the views across the river are stunning. Going to show my age here, but the images of the fire remind me of the day it happened,. I was a small boy and we lived a street away from the flour mills. I can still remember the sounds and smell of the blaze, and the crashes as the buildings collapsed into the canal and basin. Keep up the great work, the 360 camera images are fantastic. Looking forward to seeing more of them in your future adventures. KevD
Thanks Kev, part of me wishes I was there to see it but its a real shame they lost the arch warehouse what an interesting building to see thst would have been. Like I said we were really glad you were there to help out would have been so much harder without you
Awesome vlog! Love the drone footage. Enjoy learning about the history of the areas AmyJo visits. UK is so rich in history.
Just an idea…CRT should have some kind of mini tractor back hoe available there to remove those weeds/grasses easily.
Thanks for the ride @LIFE onboard AmyJo!
Hi Brigid. CRT do have a boat that scoops up the weed but it can only scoop so much. Interestingly after we released our fighting the weed vlog the weed boats did do some clearing of the weed but it will soon return
Thanks Steve and Christine for this cruise and brilliant historical presentation of what went on many years ago and how things are now. Well done to Kevin and Steve for getting rid of the 'Martian Weed'. I hope that you three are doing well. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Thanks Steve. Chris and I are doing well. Take care of yourself
What a fantastic Vlog thank you so much. We have been so manic with work we have a few to catch up on and look forward to that so much. Super Vlog, luv jacquie, Mark and Thelma ❤❤❤
No worries Jacqueline! Thank you for watching. The vlogs will always be there unless RUclips shuts down 😊
Wow I see that water weeds can coz havoc on your boat motors. But still enjoy the views on the canal. If you every see me plz pick me love to join you both on the narrow boat. Great video.....look forward to thenext vlogs. 👍😁🤗
we sure will you'd be most welcome aboard 😀
Steve
Floating Pennywort is the full name or strictly hydrocotyle and grows very quickly in the right conditions. Drying it out is the best way to kill it off so the pile you created needs to be spread out.
Your organ is a pianola, I think and the music centre is a radiogram. The drying rack (we had one) is not a clothes horse - that was a folding gate-like device which was based on the ground.
Jeff
Thanks Jeff Admit didn't know about the Pianola name for the organ.
Interesting! I might have to give it a visit. I recognize so many things from the workers cottages, our farm was a mixture of all of them. Didnt have a flushing loo til we moved into a new place in 1970, was flipping cold going to the outhouse in the winter and was also a great source of embarrassment to a teenager taking home her first boyfriend!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Great vlog, that weed must have been a nightmare!!!
Hi Jan, yes the cottages bought back some memories for me too. The weed was a real pain but we got through it. Might be a while before we go agin though
That canal weed is really terrible. An hour later canal weed returned along with more. Nice video, appreciate the history of the port area. Maybe the youngsters will find the lock's interesting.
Locks sure are fascinating to someone who knows nothing about canals. What gets us is many are 200 years old and still nothing better has been developed!
GG says woof to Smudge. Beautiful vlog
Put back out on Monday morning. Haven’t done it it in 25 years.
Sorry Kat don’t understand the last bit of your comment 😊
@@LifeonboardAmyJo pulled muscle in my back. Last time I did this was 25; years ago
Thoroughly enjoyed this, was very interesting. That weed is shocking!
Thank you Elizabeth. CRT are fighting to keep it at bay but as you can see its too little too late I’m afraid. They simply don’t have the resources
Very interesting and buildings. the biggest penny wort berg I have ever seen. I don't know why boaters worry about Gongoozlers. I think they realise they could not do any better. By the way that Music Centre would have been called a Radiogram.
I don’t think boaters worry about gongoozlers that much but one or too have had them board their boats so understandabley boaters might be wary when they are about
Very interesting. As I grew up in the late 1940s-1950s, I remember a lot of those "mod-cons". Doing the washing with a dolly tub, the advent of a gas cooker, the radiogram (not a music centre!). As to the clothes rack with the pulley, well I used mine up until around 20 years ago. It's amazing to look back.
Ah yes It was a radiogram, we had one as kids but were not allowed near it incase we scratched the record I was 16 before I was 16 before I had my own record player.
@@LifeonboardAmyJo Same here!
Never actually knew about the arched warehouse there, explains the "islands" in that part then !
And at least i can also tick the box of passing through the Faff Lock as well 😂
Hi David
I didn’t know about the warehouse either until I found a mention if it in Wikipedia thought there isn’t a great deal of info out there to be fair