My Aunt and Uncle lived in Ironville when i was young, the canal ran at the back of her house, i fell in on more than one occasion while Sticklebacking. lol.
Test track for RVV's makes sense but it could also be a test track for Mobile Tower Cranes looking at the general kit in that yard. There aren't so many of them around nowadays (last time I used one was on a project in Folkestone in the late 80's) but they also ran on standard gauge train track. Good vid Ant
Appleby Frodingham is the name you couldn’t quite make out , Ant, on the steel beam of the low over bridge at 23:39 minutes. This is to do with the steel works at Scunthorpe which is part of a fantastic rail tour that they do in the summer months. Fascinating video and story, well done.,I’d never heard of this part of the Cromford canal despite my coming from Derbyshire.
Butterley/Ambergate is where I walk my dogs. An incredibly historical section of canal edging into the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. Butterley underground Wharf supplied and distributed the Iron works above. This works supplied materials for the construction of the SS Great Britain, St. Pancras Station, Vauxhall Bridge and the Falkirk Wheel to name a few. The pub “in a field” mentioned may have been the Gate at Lower Hartshay (now demolished and a house built on the site). You can follow the canal through Lower Hartshay to the skeleton of a narrow boat then there’s a hidden section leading to the Excavator pub with a pond and bridge half way that was a winding hole. You can then follow the canal bed along the A6 10 until you get to Sawmills where it gets difficult to follow the bed due to various constructions, including a new housing estate and gas works. If you know where to look, you can find various sections around Bullbridge, some in water and with a slight detour can pick up the remaining section of the canal which eventually leads to Cromford and is in water. Also in this area is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge at Fritchley and the track bed (and rails) of the Crich mineral railway that supplied lime to the Butterley Company built by George Stephenson (yes that one!). There’s a lot more history along the final stretch to Cromford including the High Peak Junction from where train carriages were lifted 3/4 mile up a steep incline on steam driven cables! Absolutely amazing engineering for the era (1830s)!
I really enjoyed this Ant, especially being able to see old sections too. You are right they can definitely restore this with relative ease compared to other old routes. As for the choice, I think you will be doing both so I'll go with the flow. Thanks for sharing, Ant, and have a great weekend.
Yet another brilliant video Ant, that last bridge at the Cromford Canal junction was a nice find. For the next video I vote for heading off to Ambergate.
Good tour, it all looks walkable. The Pinxton was built for 14 foot boats, not narrow boats. Cromford Canal beyond this branch is restricted to narrow by the tunnel. The clue to the railway track is the permanent way maintenance plant in the yard. The track would be there for testing it and for training - not old. Behind that yard was the site of the world's first oil refinery. The story goes that local kids could set fire to the canal because of the crude oil that was dumped into it from a mine flooded with the stuff. The mine owner connected with a Scottish chemist who found that this sticky stuff could be turned into lube oil and lamp oil called paraffin. First UK onshore oil well.
Loved that walk when I lived in the area. walked the entire route of the canal rather than the modern footpath on one of my jaunts about 15 years ago., had to chuck away my boots after!
Towards Butterley, especially if you can get access inside the tunnel with it's underground wharf and mine connection. Both directions are very interesting, with the section north of Langley Mill currently undergoing development. Love watching your videos, they've been the source of many day adventures 😁.
I really love your videos, you point out everything and more, wish I was younger and able to go and walk where your videos take you. You are the best in explaining everything. Enjoy your trip to the pub it looks lovely.
Ant seems to be creating a lot of mysteries on this video. I've only walked on the Cromford end of the Canal, so Ant work here tells me I need to go further! Another wonderful video.
Where you gave the closer look into the plant equipment yard, in the background, did you notice the stacked rail plant trailers ? These are the ones drawn by the on track plant on ballast sites and such , and given that it appears to be a plant hire companies yard, I'd suggest the track is for testing and checking these machines, after all , you can't just nip out and test run these things like you might do with road-based plant. Great vlog, Ant , always good to see my old stomping ground, and whichever way you take the sequel is good by me !
I do believe there was once a plan to join Pinxton branch to the Chesterfield canal, providing an alternative & shorter route than the tidal Trent, but the railway development put paid to that.
Butterley to Ambergate,it's a bit forgotten but there's the former dry dock and sunk narrowboat at Lower Hartshay and the remains of brickwork near to Excavator pub
So interesting. All those historical things you were finding was fascinating. Great walk and explore. Thank you as always for taking us with you. Fab video.
P.s. A suggestion for any upcoming video, the railway line near your rusty bridge beside the M1 that ran through Watnall brickworks and goes on to Langley mill and ends up near the Erewash canal (2 birds 1 stone etc), there is still plenty of trackbed still left on that line I do believe
Thanks for this GR8 vlog which now locks in the history of this route. I love the old photos which must have taken a while to find. Looking forward to the next two vlogs, possibly Langley Mill first as a former girl friend lived there.
Very interesting exploration of this short arm, with some marvellous archive photographs. Be nice to see some of it restored - and the Ambergate and Butterley section. Thank's.
Back on the old towpath again with a spot of train spotting, can't be bad!!! Interesting to see that forgotten bit of canal bed under the bridge. Either direction will do - you're probably going to do both???!!!!😂😂 Coincidence you mentioned your first vid as I just watched it again today, spooky, it's been a few years hasn't it???
Great to see you walking the canals again. I love walking on the canal footpaths around my way, silsden to Skipton is quarter of a mile from my village of steeton Thanks for the video, very interesting to see the old pictures of times gone by Stay well, keep up the great work 👍
this canal was well known and remembered for its importance to the birth of the industrial revolution. it moved pottery, coal, chemicals and sundry other goods. It should be restored and linked to the Cromford Canal. The canal is recorded in British Canals, C Hatfield, and my heart when I fell in when Sticklebacking.
I think those ducks 🦆 saw you coming and legged it 😂 Heading towards Ambergate for me please. Look forward to seeing the Nottingham canals and where it all started for you 😃
Langley Mill please. I think it was steel from Appleby Froddingham in Scunthorpe on the footbridge. Really enjoyed today's exploration, I know the area and still learnt some things - thank you.
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From my copy of the book “The complete book of canal & river navigations” by Edward W Paget-Tomlinson. The Pinxton branch was two and three eighths miles long and built at the same time as the Cromford Canal following a survey of the canal line by William Jessop with work commencing after passing of the Act of Parliament in 1789. Abondonment was secured in 1944 with the last traffic on the Cromford canal being in 1943 and the Pinxton branch becoming disused prior to that date - which is interesting given how good the current state of the branch is. There was also another branch, the Lea Wood branch which was completed in 1802, two and a half furlongs long and privately built to serve “works and quarries”. The Lea Wood branch became disused in 1936.
Probably. From the book “Lost Canals of England and Wales” by Ronald Russell … One mile after Gregory tunnel the canal crosses the railway. Then comes the entrance to the Lea Wood branch. A few steps more and you are on Jessop’s massive single-arch aqueduct over the Derwent. I also note that if you look at the Wikipedia page for the Cromford Canal there is a picture of “Gregory tunnel near Lea Wood” but if you look at the map on the same page they seem to be naming the Lea Wood branch the Nightingale Arm, which I suspect to be an error.
I’ve actually been in that canal bit under the bridge actually never realised it was the canal at the time , was only down at codnor park res last week walking around and back in the summer on a rare warm day walked to the boat inn for a Sunday dinner from my daughter’s in Somercotes passing under the railway and picking up the canal you should go to the northern portal of the Butterley tunnel and walk the short section on the canal it’s getting very derelict now but still passable despite many fallen trees I actually walk that bit quite regularly 👍
Thanks Ant, brilliant work as usual. Personally I think I prefer the Boat Inn as it used to be, never been much of a fan of modernisation haha! ( Butterley Tunnel is my vote).
Butterley & Ambergate please 😊 hope my messenger request counts at 2 lol I didn’t even know that the Boat inn was a pub again, was being renovated last time I saw it.
I always think it's sad when old railway lines have been closed but I've never once considered that the railways were the cause of canals to close. I mean it's obvious but never considered it. Is that an old photo of you by the Boat Inn? I don't mind which way you go - it's all new to me and all very enjoyable
Great video Ant, I didn't know of the connection between the Midland and GN at Pinxton Could that track be for testing and training on road rail vehicles and diggers As for next video that's a tough choice. Whilst I find butterly tunnel fascinated, I'm always looking at canal remains near erewash Valley line when I'm at work so the Nottingham canal would probably be better Cheers Russ
You probably realised after but the canal bed would have been on the upper level of the bridge, as the lower level is far below the height of the canal. On the section between the bridge and the main road, on the right of the footpath in the undergrowth is or at least was when i lived there sections of the canal walls.
Great video, to me it looks like a Road Rail Vehicle testing area... There are a few 360 RRVs in the yard next door. The level crossing will be used at the road rail access point. Never knew that was there. I was a road rail operator... Hope this helps
There's an almost identical, so similar Cromford Canal stretch in the fields up from, across from Ambergate as one approaches the M1/A610, where they open casted, can't remember the name but there's a pub sat there in the fields and some stretches of canal and a c bridge just stuck there, going nowhere.... ** same stretch, sorry !!
The idea of the Friends of the Cromford Canal was to restore the full length of the Cromford Canal including the Pinxton Arm if it has been changed I have not been informed.
Completely coincidentally appropriate that you'd sort and issue this, a monument to working class endeavour and hard bloody work - the very day a most assertive ex Labour Dep PM should 'choose' to take a route far from Hull ferry's to the next place on...
When the canals were being built nobody understood underground hydrogeology and the prevailing thought was than any water in mineworkings must have leaked from the surface so all water was pumped into the canal from Pinxton Colliery as the most likely source. This area lies on the edge of the Eakring oilfield so the minewater was mixed with oil. The Pinxton arm had a lock to isolate it from the main line so the water didn’t exchange much and the oil built up on the surface. There’s an apocryphal story of a bargee knocking his pipe out over the side and setting the entire arm on fire! 😂
HI when you coming back to ironville? Would like to meet you lived in ironville over 30 years if we meet up would like to show you something in ridding it's about 10 minutes away from ironville
My Aunt and Uncle lived in Ironville when i was young, the canal ran at the back of her house, i fell in on more than one occasion while Sticklebacking. lol.
Deserves more subscribers great channel
Very kind thank you
Test track for RVV's makes sense but it could also be a test track for Mobile Tower Cranes looking at the general kit in that yard. There aren't so many of them around nowadays (last time I used one was on a project in Folkestone in the late 80's) but they also ran on standard gauge train track. Good vid Ant
Appleby Frodingham is the name you couldn’t quite make out , Ant, on the steel beam of the low over bridge at 23:39 minutes. This is to do with the steel works at Scunthorpe which is part of a fantastic rail tour that they do in the summer months.
Fascinating video and story, well done.,I’d never heard of this part of the Cromford canal despite my coming from Derbyshire.
That canal bed under the bridge is a great find! Most people walking under there probably have no idea it was once a canal!
That was a nice little surprise I'm glad I could get down into it
Butterley/Ambergate is where I walk my dogs. An incredibly historical section of canal edging into the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. Butterley underground Wharf supplied and distributed the Iron works above. This works supplied materials for the construction of the SS Great Britain, St. Pancras Station, Vauxhall Bridge and the Falkirk Wheel to name a few. The pub “in a field” mentioned may have been the Gate at Lower Hartshay (now demolished and a house built on the site). You can follow the canal through Lower Hartshay to the skeleton of a narrow boat then there’s a hidden section leading to the Excavator pub with a pond and bridge half way that was a winding hole. You can then follow the canal bed along the A6 10 until you get to Sawmills where it gets difficult to follow the bed due to various constructions, including a new housing estate and gas works. If you know where to look, you can find various sections around Bullbridge, some in water and with a slight detour can pick up the remaining section of the canal which eventually leads to Cromford and is in water. Also in this area is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge at Fritchley and the track bed (and rails) of the Crich mineral railway that supplied lime to the Butterley Company built by George Stephenson (yes that one!). There’s a lot more history along the final stretch to Cromford including the High Peak Junction from where train carriages were lifted 3/4 mile up a steep incline on steam driven cables! Absolutely amazing engineering for the era (1830s)!
Great video!
Butterley Tunnel & Ambergate I think, both have loads of history.
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I think that's where my head is at 😊
Another great historical exploration!I simply love your video’s.Well done.
Thanks for this mate. The perfect video to watch on my birthday today.
Another great video Ant, many thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it thanks very much for watching
I really enjoyed this Ant, especially being able to see old sections too. You are right they can definitely restore this with relative ease compared to other old routes. As for the choice, I think you will be doing both so I'll go with the flow. Thanks for sharing, Ant, and have a great weekend.
Yet another brilliant video Ant, that last bridge at the Cromford Canal junction was a nice find.
For the next video I vote for heading off to Ambergate.
Thanks very much Jason. I think Ambergate is where my head is at yes
Good tour, it all looks walkable. The Pinxton was built for 14 foot boats, not narrow boats. Cromford Canal beyond this branch is restricted to narrow by the tunnel. The clue to the railway track is the permanent way maintenance plant in the yard. The track would be there for testing it and for training - not old. Behind that yard was the site of the world's first oil refinery. The story goes that local kids could set fire to the canal because of the crude oil that was dumped into it from a mine flooded with the stuff. The mine owner connected with a Scottish chemist who found that this sticky stuff could be turned into lube oil and lamp oil called paraffin. First UK onshore oil well.
Loved that walk when I lived in the area. walked the entire route of the canal rather than the modern footpath on one of my jaunts about 15 years ago., had to chuck away my boots after!
Interesting, informative & well researched! Thanks.
i lived in the cottages between pinxton and pye bridge until i was 11 years old, great to see those old pictures
Towards Butterley, especially if you can get access inside the tunnel with it's underground wharf and mine connection. Both directions are very interesting, with the section north of Langley Mill currently undergoing development. Love watching your videos, they've been the source of many day adventures 😁.
I really love your videos, you point out everything and more, wish I was younger and able to go and walk where your videos take you. You are the best in explaining everything. Enjoy your trip to the pub it looks lovely.
Thanks i reckon Nottingham canals 👍
Very kind thanks so much 🙂
Ant seems to be creating a lot of mysteries on this video. I've only walked on the Cromford end of the Canal, so Ant work here tells me I need to go further! Another wonderful video.
Ah yes you should definitely go further, I need to go back too
Ant, absolutely brilliant as are all your videos, so much research and hard work, thanks for a wonderful channel and thank you for your time.
Brilliant video 😊
Where you gave the closer look into the plant equipment yard, in the background, did you notice the stacked rail plant trailers ? These are the ones drawn by the on track plant on ballast sites and such , and given that it appears to be a plant hire companies yard, I'd suggest the track is for testing and checking these machines, after all , you can't just nip out and test run these things like you might do with road-based plant. Great vlog, Ant , always good to see my old stomping ground, and whichever way you take the sequel is good by me !
I think that you should head off towards Ambergate. Love the black & white image of the bridge near Ironville at 25:06. Thanks for this jaunt, Ant.
I do believe there was once a plan to join Pinxton branch to the Chesterfield canal, providing an alternative & shorter route than the tidal Trent, but the railway development put paid to that.
Ant, great watch so far, stopped at 9:12. Got home late and have to work tomorrow but WILL finish when I get home........ Thanks ahead of time.
Excellent video, my grandparents lived in Pinxton, my grandfather's family are from Cromford, so I'll vote to head that way.
Thanks.
Butterley to Ambergate,it's a bit forgotten but there's the former dry dock and sunk narrowboat at Lower Hartshay and the remains of brickwork near to Excavator pub
So interesting. All those historical things you were finding was fascinating. Great walk and explore. Thank you as always for taking us with you. Fab video.
P.s. A suggestion for any upcoming video, the railway line near your rusty bridge beside the M1 that ran through Watnall brickworks and goes on to Langley mill and ends up near the Erewash canal (2 birds 1 stone etc), there is still plenty of trackbed still left on that line I do believe
I don’t know the area so any way for me. Really enjoyed that. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Thanks for this GR8 vlog which now locks in the history of this route. I love the old photos which must have taken a while to find. Looking forward to the next two vlogs, possibly Langley Mill first as a former girl friend lived there.
Very interesting exploration of this short arm, with some marvellous archive photographs. Be nice to see some of it restored - and the Ambergate and Butterley section. Thank's.
Class as usual Ant, class 👍🫡
Very kind Nigel thank you
This is a superb channel
Excellent as usual. Probably Appleby Frodingham on the bridge girder.
this my local patch i used to cycle to pinxton from pye bridge as a child
It's a nice little area. Plenty to go back for. Thanks for watching
Back on the old towpath again with a spot of train spotting, can't be bad!!! Interesting to see that forgotten bit of canal bed under the bridge. Either direction will do - you're probably going to do both???!!!!😂😂 Coincidence you mentioned your first vid as I just watched it again today, spooky, it's been a few years hasn't it???
Great vid. Peaked at the end with a proper sexy bridge
Absolutely the comment of the month 🤣
Thanks for watching
Very interesting. I would love to know a lot more about the Butterly tunnel on the Cromford canal! 🙂
Great Video, Ambergate and the tunnel.
Thanks very much for watching 😀
Fascinating! Thanks for that video, Ant. I went to butterley a few years ago, so it would interest me to see you venture in that direction!
Thanks Michael I think I'm leaning towards that way first
Marvellous video. Could you do the Butterley tunnel area next?
Great to see you walking the canals again. I love walking on the canal footpaths around my way, silsden to Skipton is quarter of a mile from my village of steeton
Thanks for the video, very interesting to see the old pictures of times gone by
Stay well, keep up the great work 👍
Thanks very much for watching. I'm hoping to do a few over the winter
this canal was well known and remembered for its importance to the birth of the industrial revolution. it moved pottery, coal, chemicals and sundry other goods. It should be restored and linked to the Cromford Canal. The canal is recorded in British Canals, C Hatfield, and my heart when I fell in when Sticklebacking.
Dankeschön fürs mitnehmen.
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Thank you for watching ☺️
I think those ducks 🦆 saw you coming and legged it 😂 Heading towards Ambergate for me please. Look forward to seeing the Nottingham canals and where it all started for you 😃
Thanks
Very kind thank you
got lots of archive photos of the ironworks if you want to use any
Langley Mill please. I think it was steel from Appleby Froddingham in Scunthorpe on the footbridge. Really enjoyed today's exploration, I know the area and still learnt some things - thank you.
nice one Ant
Thanks very much for watching
Another great vid. Would be interesting from a personal view point, if you would please head towards Ambergate at some point. Cheers 😊.
I'd like to do that as I have never been over that way yet
Another lovely video Ant. Go whichever way you want from there. 😉😉
Thanks very much for watching John
Thanks Ant another very interesting video.
Glad you enjoyed it Philip
Fantastic video top man 👍👍
SO VERY INTERESTIING. THANK YOU
Thanks very much for watching
@@TrekkingExploration You are most welcome. I am 87 years and housebound but over the years I have entertained many people on you tube by uploading. Like railways. countryside. holidays. etc etc. Like you, i love people and entertaining. We work very hard and enjoy what we do . keep up your channel and enjoy life for yourself and us. I now enjoy up to 40 years of my own yesteryear films. THANKS A LOT.. Keith
@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS that's fantastic Keith. It really is 🧡
From my copy of the book “The complete book of canal & river navigations” by Edward W Paget-Tomlinson. The Pinxton branch was two and three eighths miles long and built at the same time as the Cromford Canal following a survey of the canal line by William Jessop with work commencing after passing of the Act of Parliament in 1789. Abondonment was secured in 1944 with the last traffic on the Cromford canal being in 1943 and the Pinxton branch becoming disused prior to that date - which is interesting given how good the current state of the branch is. There was also another branch, the Lea Wood branch which was completed in 1802, two and a half furlongs long and privately built to serve “works and quarries”. The Lea Wood branch became disused in 1936.
Is the lea branch the one that has the bridge that goes over the matlock railway line?
Probably. From the book “Lost Canals of England and Wales” by Ronald Russell … One mile after Gregory tunnel the canal crosses the railway. Then comes the entrance to the Lea Wood branch. A few steps more and you are on Jessop’s massive single-arch aqueduct over the Derwent. I also note that if you look at the Wikipedia page for the Cromford Canal there is a picture of “Gregory tunnel near Lea Wood” but if you look at the map on the same page they seem to be naming the Lea Wood branch the Nightingale Arm, which I suspect to be an error.
Appleby Frodingham was a steelworks in the days before British Steel
At about 23:40, that footbridge - it said Appleby Frodingham, as seen on a lot of steel girders, from the Scunthorpe area.
Brilliant again ant
Thanks very much 😊
I’ve actually been in that canal bit under the bridge actually never realised it was the canal at the time , was only down at codnor park res last week walking around and back in the summer on a rare warm day walked to the boat inn for a Sunday dinner from my daughter’s in Somercotes passing under the railway and picking up the canal you should go to the northern portal of the Butterley tunnel and walk the short section on the canal it’s getting very derelict now but still passable despite many fallen trees I actually walk that bit quite regularly 👍
Interesting - thanks for sharing 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Glad you enjoyed it thank you
Cool! I enjoyed that thankyou. 🫡✌️
Glad you enjoyed it Nick thank you
Thanks Ant, brilliant work as usual. Personally I think I prefer the Boat Inn as it used to be, never been much of a fan of modernisation haha! ( Butterley Tunnel is my vote).
Butterley, please.
Another great video. Thanks
Butterley & Ambergate please 😊 hope my messenger request counts at 2 lol
I didn’t even know that the Boat inn was a pub again, was being renovated last time I saw it.
Them tracks are prolly a Wartime emergency extension...
Butterley & Ambergate for me Ant. Cheers
Walked it yesterday it'll be along soon 😀
Go left please.Excellent video.Thank you.Ant,
Very kind thanks so much
Definitely do butterley
On the steel was appleby frodingham a steel workks in Scunthorpe
I always think it's sad when old railway lines have been closed but I've never once considered that the railways were the cause of canals to close. I mean it's obvious but never considered it. Is that an old photo of you by the Boat Inn?
I don't mind which way you go - it's all new to me and all very enjoyable
No it's definitely not me I think that photo was dated 1960s 😂😂
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Great video Ant, I didn't know of the connection between the Midland and GN at Pinxton
Could that track be for testing and training on road rail vehicles and diggers
As for next video that's a tough choice. Whilst I find butterly tunnel fascinated, I'm always looking at canal remains near erewash Valley line when I'm at work so the Nottingham canal would probably be better
Cheers Russ
You probably realised after but the canal bed would have been on the upper level of the bridge, as the lower level is far below the height of the canal. On the section between the bridge and the main road, on the right of the footpath in the undergrowth is or at least was when i lived there sections of the canal walls.
Great video, to me it looks like a Road Rail Vehicle testing area... There are a few 360 RRVs in the yard next door. The level crossing will be used at the road rail access point. Never knew that was there. I was a road rail operator... Hope this helps
Thanks for the info! I had no idea it was easy to miss I just glanced over
@TrekkingExploration have a look at 360 excavators in the surrounding yards. Some of them have rail gear attached from and rear. 👍
all the land from end of the current canal wharf from pinxton to pye bridge was destroyed by an opencast mine that started in 1992.
the section from pinxton to pye bridge was open casted in the 90's destroying all trace of the canal until you get to the bridge underpass.
Ahhh I thought it looked like it had been. What ashame
Gotta be Langley Mill to Ilson Ant( I am a bit biased!).
I grew up that way too
Turn left to Langlemill and then come back and do ambergate later please :)
Twas opencasting that 'buggered' up the rail routes/Cromford Canal routage, indeed.
There's an almost identical, so similar Cromford Canal stretch in the fields up from, across from Ambergate as one approaches the M1/A610, where they open casted, can't remember the name but there's a pub sat there in the fields and some stretches of canal and a c bridge just stuck there, going nowhere....
** same stretch, sorry !!
Might that be the Excavator Pub?
I don't know the area at all, but Butterly is such a nice name, do that one.
please do butterley section next
The idea of the Friends of the Cromford Canal was to restore the full length of the Cromford Canal including the Pinxton Arm if it has been changed I have not been informed.
Completely coincidentally appropriate that you'd sort and issue this, a monument to working class endeavour and hard bloody work - the very day a most assertive ex Labour Dep PM should 'choose' to take a route far from Hull ferry's to the next place on...
Nottingham. Finish what you started years ago and keep informing us about our industrial heritage.
Yes I think I need to finish that story
Head to Langley please.
When the canals were being built nobody understood underground hydrogeology and the prevailing thought was than any water in mineworkings must have leaked from the surface so all water was pumped into the canal from Pinxton Colliery as the most likely source. This area lies on the edge of the Eakring oilfield so the minewater was mixed with oil. The Pinxton arm had a lock to isolate it from the main line so the water didn’t exchange much and the oil built up on the surface. There’s an apocryphal story of a bargee knocking his pipe out over the side and setting the entire arm on fire! 😂
That arch at 14:58 doesn’t look too smart!
Might be due to the angle but definitely looks a bit flat.
Butterley and Ambergate 👍
Can we have both? Firstly I'd pick Langley
Langley Mill next
Go towards Langley
It’s a test track for training
maybe the track was for a crane worked on a few jobs where the crane could move
I vote Butterley, and through the tunnel! Get a a dinghy!
Yes that would be interesting wouldn't it?
HI when you coming back to ironville? Would like to meet you lived in ironville over 30 years if we meet up would like to show you something in ridding it's about 10 minutes away from ironville
The boat is a posh nosh place these days not like when the loo's was outside .
Pye Bridge - Allvox, nowlso long gone ¡
yeah. Great place to get spares for my old vauxhall corsa 🚗
Both but Langley Mill first.
Go left, other than I am left handed I can’t think of another reason why.