As a Volunteer at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey, I found this very interesting, as I have been told that some if not all of the Gunpowder came from the Mills. Also this is the most detailed description of the incident, that I have seen. Well done Sir.
Also shown here is that the capitals of the cast iron pillars bear an inscription showing where they were made - the historically significant Coalbrookdale works in Shropshire.
If you disliked a video like this, you should justify your vote to the rest of us... I cannot possibly justify a neg vote for this kind of informative videos, concise, without begging etc
You attribute too much motive to the thumbs down. Given the opportunity to rain on someone's parade, a significant minority are only too happy to do so, irrespective of subject matter or delivery. There's a better than evens chance the dislikers haven't even watched the video. The kind of people who empty fast food packaging out of a car door within sight of a bin.
Also, if you watch on a "smart" phone it is quite easy to touch the wrong part of the screen by accident. i have done it a few times and always cancel IF i notice.
Nobody goes around disliking pages as a hobby. I bet most of the thumbs down are people accidentally hitting the button while scrolling the page. It has happened to me several times...
Many thanks for the included map! As a non-Londoner (even not British), it's always a bit difficult to remember where you went. Map makes it a lot easier. And yes, again an interesting story.
I remember watching this on a children's programme in the 1970's, about 1975, when I first heard this story, very interesting The name Macclesfield Bridge, now Macclesfield is a town in East Cheshire where I originally from, then just called Cheshire at the time. The bridge near Regents Park, [London] itself would of been name after the Town of Macclesfield, which had a Castle at one time, which as since gone from 1930's, but if take a walk behind The Town Hall, in Macclesfield, you'll see a Wall there where the remaining Castle is, & before you say it, what I'm telling you is very true.
First time I got married, we got a flat on the Waterlow Estate in Bethnal Green, near to the Mare Street entrance to the Regents Canal. As I worked in Hoxton, if I got up early enough, I'd walk to work along the canal. My job involved visiting in Islington, and I'd often route my visits so that I could walk along the towpath. We moved away, but some years later, after we had split, I was, for a couple of years, going out with a woman who lived in Hoxton, and we sometimes used to walk down the canal to an Indian restaurant in Cambridge Heath Road, so I spent a lot of shoe leather on the towpath over the years. Despite the detours along the towpath adding to the distance walked, there was a lovely feeling of peace and quiet, even as the traffic roared overhead.
Jago! You're getting better & better! A fascinating peek into the history of commercial transport of our past. I heartily approve of a sideline into canals. The motorways of their time. We nearly lost them & the tale of their rescue is another worthy tale. Making sure they were still, legally, a navigation by getting boats through piles of old bikes, shopping trolleys & anything else people had chucked into our little used cuts. I'm so glad they're now a well used & expanding way of traveling, albeit at 4 knots max, through the back garden of our Union!
Since this hasn't been mentioned yet, Tugs was in fact made by many of the same people who made Thomas, and it had an episode in which the transportation of explosives ends badly
I'm glad to hear you mentioned the rope marks on the iron pillars Jago. Many years ago my wife & I went for a guided walk along this same canal & our guide both showed us them & told the sorry tale of the explosion. We've driven over the bridge many times since on our way into Regent's Park & I'm always reminded of this tragic incident. A good re-telling sir !
The Rhino' will be sorely disappointed when he hears his agent caused him to miss such a cinematic opportunity, all over a petty thing like money. I bet that Warthog gets the next British Petroleum mascot gig and is living the high life by next video.
You are a terrific addition to the London youtube history set. I know you are not a juxebox, but any videos on Primrose Hill and St James's areas [Hampstead and Mayfair in second order] would be greatly received.
It's raining fish! Hallelujah! Oh, sorry, a wrong song. What a nice and energising story for such a lovely strolling destination. Jago, thanks for another vid, and, of course you could see it coming, thanks for all the fish :)
Thank you for the explanatory note about the warthog. I didn't think it looked quite right for a rhino. I mean, I've heard of rhinoplasty, but, well.....
I love walking along Regent's Canal as well. Always fascinating to to look at the surroundings and imagine it's history. Thank you for this, as always, fascinating video
Late 1960's I remember our class outing enjoying a trip along the Regents Canal on a narrow boat called the Jenny Wren, which used to run such tourist cruises. The skipper was very jolly and knowledgeable, giving us a full commentary as we passed along and leading us in "One Man and his Dog" as we went through a tunnel (I think we just got up to ten before emerging). He mentioned this bridge being known as 'blow-up', but didn't give the full story of why (hence, given the era, some of us assumed it must have been the IRA). Much thanks for this informative doc - like your style.
Fascinating (and unexpected!) video about something I was entirely unaware of. Fantastic amount of detail too. I hope those railings were rounded up without any of them getting hurt...
Not so much "Tales From the Tube" as "Chronicles From the Cut"! Top stuff again, young Wrighty. I knew the story, but you did your usual magic and made it far more absorbing than anyone else ever did it before. 2:40 The cages were damaged, and the guards were dispatched to round them up?!! . Well, we can't have cages roaming freely now, can we, eh?!! :DDD (P.S. That's not a criticism; it's just my pedantic brain seeing the surreal in the script)
I'm so glad someone else thought that. Actually, thought both of those things - I, too, knew the story but very much like Mr Wright's retelling of it, and also had a vision of cages rushing around of their own free will....
Thank you, again, Mr. Hazzard for a fine video. If I may be pedantic (?) the term, "Fly Boat" applied to passenger-carrying narrowboats upon the Shropshire Union Canal and not freight-carriers upon the Regents. The unpowered narrowboats under tow were (and still are) referred to as "butties". Whilst upon nomenclature, "Little Venice's" official name is Browning's Pool Junction!
@@cargy930 Yes, I believe that this was the case. I further understand that this was sometimes achieved by the use of sharp blades affixed the towline of the "fly" boat. (Some years before the Health and Safety Act.... happy days!).
Another outstanding video, thanks! It’s surprising to see there were not more “blow-up bridges” in the 19th Century considering the general lack of transportation respect regarding petroleum product use, flammability & precautions.
Regents Canal is truly among my favourite areas of London ... always fantasize about one day living along there. And thank you for the history ... although tragic, your contemporary shots of the canal today speaks volumes as to the area’s beauty.
Really interesting. I live next to the Leeds-Liverpool canal which has dangerous history in a similar vein. Anyway, keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
Well what an interesting storey ! And great video ! Thank you ,Reminds me of the fire accidents in Shoreditch turn if the century, where lots of cabinet makers crammed together veneer shops , fires were lite to me melt glues , steam shaping , heating large press plates , etc , a fire waiting to ignite !
Thanks for the map on this one JH. 👍 I'm pretty good with stuff that's on the Tube map but I easily get lost if the place in question has no tube station.
When I was a child, back in the 70s, people referred to it as "blow up bridge" but it was never explained why. The place used to creep me out as a boy.
Very interesting Jago, thank you. I had never heard this story and am surprised that it was not mentioned in Tim and Peru’s video of their journey along this canal.
As well as being an interesting story, these views make me want to go and walk the Regents Canal, which I've never done, not being a Londoner. And yes, a real map! Hurrah! At a glance it really sums up the convoluted route of the canal. Also the return of the one-second caption which requires stopping and hair-trigger work on the Pause button to read it ... not so convinced about that, though it presents an interesting challenge. Jago making sure we're concentrating.
Hi Jago, Thanks. There are so many hidden and not so hidden gems in London and it's great to know some of the history behind bits of them. I hope to take my grandson round them one day and this series of yours will be very useful. BobUK.
Hi Jago, I had real blow out on this blown up video. There have been number of explosive events throughout London's gunpowder manufacturing industry as well as from other industrial (mal)practices prevalent in the early days of the industrial revolution. The Silvertown explosion was a huge event as was the Slade Green explosive works disaster. Ok so Erith and Slade Green are in Kent but have been subsumed into London Borough of Bexley but close enough to London to rattle the windows in Westminster when it went bang! Love the fact that the cast Iron pillars of the bridge were cast in Coalbrookdale and just down the road in Islington is Coalbrookdale road. Keep lighting the blue touchpaper of history and remembering to stand clear!
I did enjoy this. Living along the canal, but on the eastern side of it, its fascinating to learn the history. And I would agree wtih you. Walking along the canal is one of my favourite walks
Thank you for a very interesting video, combining two things I've come to love...London, and the UK canal and waterways system. I found a RUclips channel about narrowboating one boring lockdown day earlier in the year. I've watched all the older videos and never miss a new one, and it was mentioned that this bridge was blown up once, but without the detail you've given. Mystery solved.
Thanks for this. I was watching one of your earlier videos and, I think you asked for suggestions, I thought to myself while watching that you should do a series on the canals of London. Then, this arrived in my notifications. Brilliant as always. There are plenty more canal type stories you could cover. Some even crossing over into railway related stuff. How about covering some of the basins and the businesses and cargos that were shipped/delivered there. As someone else suggested, Chronicles of the Cut, is a great title.
I’m one of those “viewers” that enjoys (yes enjoys) your videos and I live in Sydney Australia. Anyway, thanks for this, I really enjoyed learning about this event and blow-up bridge 🐿
On the north bank, left hand side as you exit the park there is a tree that bears the scar from that explosion. The reason there are towing rope groves on both sides of the iron pillars it’s because when they were reassembled them after the disaster the pillars were turned 180°. The tow path side groves are the original.
How astonishingly fascinating! Just so many things I’d no idea about!! One does tend to think of pre-electricity Victorian London as like Ancient Rome: dead to all but the nefarious during the hours of darkness. But here much like a long distance container lorry driver, industrial cargo is being noisily shipped at 2 am. Now, the properties backing onto the canal are some of the priciest there are; back then it was probably a right racket at all hours... I’d take issue solely with the description of their speed as “relative” because for a _train_ with five flyboats and a tug to make it from City Road to the park in three hours is actually bloody zippy imho despite the short distance as the crow flies. With six ‘carriages’ each having to navigate across the _three separate locks_ at Camden, to my mind, they were shifting in earnest. One wonders whether that’s a culverted lost river of London in the striped pipe seen at 1:52 - Caledonian Road?
A very good video. There was a similar disaster on the Black Country canals, which later had a song composed about it, if anyone can trace it. Petroleum, in those days, was carried in wooden casks, which were not always entirely airtight....... Even so, loading it on the same boat as gunpowder? Someone clearly hadn't much imagination. 'Fly boats' in the Midlands, often operated by Pickfords, were faster than the ordinary narrow boats (albeit 'faster' was relative) and carried passengers as well as cargo. This led to the infamous 'Pickfords fly boat murder' which took place somewhere between Hixon and Rugeley in Staffordshire, when a lady passenger was raped, murdered and dumped in the Trent & Mersey Canal by the boatmen. You might like to do a film about that; I think it inspired an Inspector Morse book.
LeviNZ sends his greetings,,, and thought "Oh-good--something about Macclesfield.". Our son and new wife lived there for two years,, one block east ( I think) of Paradise St... a misnomer if ever thereb was one. Anyway.... we two walked thence, via the "Puss in Boots" pub and along the canal a few km to Bollington. Daughter i law was teaching 2 km further on at Pott Shrigley,,,which is near Alderley Edge.... where Money lives....Even then .2006.. pubs were shutting up shop...
@@blackrabbit212 I don't know if I'm directly related. I once stayed on the Scottish Isle of Arran, it has more of the Bunyan clan than the rest of the UK put together.
Elizabeth Spedding people joke about Health and Safety regulations, but I saw British industry before there were the present rules, and that was the joke. It was very dangerous.
I wonder if the 'Tilbury' was named after the town, port or Fort? It also shares its name with the oft mentioned London, Tilbury & Southend Railway that Mr Hazzard regales us of frequently.
A bit of a linguistic note; at this point I'm pretty sure torpedo actually meant a sea mine, not the self propelled weapon we're familiar with. Self propelled torpedoes were a very new weapon at this point and were only just becoming viable with the introduction of various stabilization systems.
There is another bridge that was destroyed by gunpowder in a barge exploding beneath it across the Hertford union canal alongside Victoria park again the bridge was rebuilt
Nice telling of the story. But as a canal geek I must point out that Tilbury and the other boats being towed were narrowboats, not barges, or they wouldn't have got as far as the Midlands. In 1874 the canal was narrow (i.e. 7 feet at locks) beyond Braunston in Northamptonshire, and the last stretch into Birmingham was never widened.
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As a Volunteer at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey, I found this very interesting, as I have been told that some if not all of the Gunpowder came from the Mills. Also this is the most detailed description of the incident, that I have seen. Well done Sir.
Railwayman John would gunpowder had left Waltham Abbey down the Lee River/canal?
Also shown here is that the capitals of the cast iron pillars bear an inscription showing where they were made - the historically significant Coalbrookdale works in Shropshire.
I noticed that too.
An actual map! Hallelujah 🎉😄 Great video as always Jago.
Yay!
If you disliked a video like this, you should justify your vote to the rest of us... I cannot possibly justify a neg vote for this kind of informative videos, concise, without begging etc
You attribute too much motive to the thumbs down. Given the opportunity to rain on someone's parade, a significant minority are only too happy to do so, irrespective of subject matter or delivery. There's a better than evens chance the dislikers haven't even watched the video. The kind of people who empty fast food packaging out of a car door within sight of a bin.
@@borderlands6606 I sadly have to agree.
It's a shame, but ALL human life is here!!
Also, if you watch on a "smart" phone it is quite easy to touch the wrong part of the screen by accident. i have done it a few times and always cancel IF i notice.
Nobody goes around disliking pages as a hobby. I bet most of the thumbs down are people accidentally hitting the button while scrolling the page. It has happened to me several times...
Yes by accident is sadly common too. Maybe there should be a way of cancellation of it. It seems to be once it's done it's done.
Just a thought.
Many thanks for the included map! As a non-Londoner (even not British), it's always a bit difficult to remember where you went. Map makes it a lot easier. And yes, again an interesting story.
I remember watching this on a children's programme in the 1970's, about 1975, when I first heard this story, very interesting The name Macclesfield Bridge, now Macclesfield is a town in East Cheshire where I originally from, then just called Cheshire at the time. The bridge near Regents Park, [London] itself would of been name after the Town of Macclesfield, which had a Castle at one time, which as since gone from 1930's, but if take a walk behind The Town Hall, in Macclesfield, you'll see a Wall there where the remaining Castle is, & before you say it, what I'm telling you is very true.
First time I got married, we got a flat on the Waterlow Estate in Bethnal Green, near to the Mare Street entrance to the Regents Canal. As I worked in Hoxton, if I got up early enough, I'd walk to work along the canal. My job involved visiting in Islington, and I'd often route my visits so that I could walk along the towpath. We moved away, but some years later, after we had split, I was, for a couple of years, going out with a woman who lived in Hoxton, and we sometimes used to walk down the canal to an Indian restaurant in Cambridge Heath Road, so I spent a lot of shoe leather on the towpath over the years. Despite the detours along the towpath adding to the distance walked, there was a lovely feeling of peace and quiet, even as the traffic roared overhead.
Jago! You're getting better & better! A fascinating peek into the history of commercial transport of our past. I heartily approve of a sideline into canals. The motorways of their time.
We nearly lost them & the tale of their rescue is another worthy tale. Making sure they were still, legally, a navigation by getting boats through piles of old bikes, shopping trolleys & anything else people had chucked into our little used cuts.
I'm so glad they're now a well used & expanding way of traveling, albeit at 4 knots max, through the back garden of our Union!
the fact there was a 1989 thomas the tank engine esque show with tugboats is simply amazing to me
One of my favourite programmes as a kid! Great theme tune!
@@Tomzy190994 One of my favourite programs as an adult, it kept my son happy for hours. I had to buy all the videos he liked it so much.🚂🚂🚂🚂😸
ruclips.net/video/GOJHj4m4otI/видео.html
I remember when it was first broadcast. Quite an epic theme tune for a kids show!
Since this hasn't been mentioned yet, Tugs was in fact made by many of the same people who made Thomas, and it had an episode in which the transportation of explosives ends badly
"I tend not to use maps...As long the water's on one side of me, I'm on the right track". 😁
If the water is on both sides of you, check your shoes. If you can see your shoes, stay put; if not, it's time to request assistance.
Rhinos do charge... extortionate rates for a cameo.
Need to take away their credit cards.
Word up, my man!
superb!
Q: How do you stop a stampede of elephants with only a telephone?
A: Place a trunk call and reverse the charge.
@@ssbohio Yes, but that gets them charging the other way!
Seeing Narrowboats and canals make me think of "Cruising the Cut", another English RUclipsr. You all should do a collaboration!
I'm glad to hear you mentioned the rope marks on the iron pillars Jago. Many years ago my wife & I went for a guided walk along this same canal & our guide both showed us them & told the sorry tale of the explosion. We've driven over the bridge many times since on our way into Regent's Park & I'm always reminded of this tragic incident. A good re-telling sir !
2:51 We need to get you more money so that you can afford a proper rhino
I'm all for keeping the rhinos in work but that warthog was kinda cute. 😁
Instructions unclear. Tried following the route without a map and ended up following the Quaggy to Lewisham.
The Rhino' will be sorely disappointed when he hears his agent caused him to miss such a cinematic opportunity, all over a petty thing like money. I bet that Warthog gets the next British Petroleum mascot gig and is living the high life by next video.
Fact: Pumbaa in "The Lion King" was originally supposed to be a rhino.
London: It's either affluent or effluent. No in-between.....
Croydon in a nutshell !
Come to think of it, that’s probably _most_ cities…
I love that. Brilliant comment😄!
You are a terrific addition to the London youtube history set. I know you are not a juxebox, but any videos on Primrose Hill and St James's areas [Hampstead and Mayfair in second order] would be greatly received.
It's raining fish! Hallelujah!
Oh, sorry, a wrong song.
What a nice and energising story for such a lovely strolling destination. Jago, thanks for another vid, and, of course you could see it coming, thanks for all the fish :)
Thank you for the explanatory note about the warthog. I didn't think it looked quite right for a rhino. I mean, I've heard of rhinoplasty, but, well.....
This is one of the most fascinating channels on youtube
I love walking along Regent's Canal as well. Always fascinating to to look at the surroundings and imagine it's history. Thank you for this, as always, fascinating video
I remember seeing barges being towed by horse along the 'Cut' as we used to call it.
interesting to note the iron pillar had coalbrookdale on it, lovely told tale.
Late 1960's I remember our class outing enjoying a trip along the Regents Canal on a narrow boat called the Jenny Wren, which used to run such tourist cruises. The skipper was very jolly and knowledgeable, giving us a full commentary as we passed along and leading us in "One Man and his Dog" as we went through a tunnel (I think we just got up to ten before emerging). He mentioned this bridge being known as 'blow-up', but didn't give the full story of why (hence, given the era, some of us assumed it must have been the IRA). Much thanks for this informative doc - like your style.
Fascinating (and unexpected!) video about something I was entirely unaware of. Fantastic amount of detail too. I hope those railings were rounded up without any of them getting hurt...
Not so much "Tales From the Tube" as "Chronicles From the Cut"!
Top stuff again, young Wrighty. I knew the story, but you did your usual magic and made it far more absorbing than anyone else ever did it before.
2:40 The cages were damaged, and the guards were dispatched to round them up?!! . Well, we can't have cages roaming freely now, can we, eh?!! :DDD
(P.S. That's not a criticism; it's just my pedantic brain seeing the surreal in the script)
I'm so glad someone else thought that. Actually, thought both of those things - I, too, knew the story but very much like Mr Wright's retelling of it, and also had a vision of cages rushing around of their own free will....
😄 - I think he didn’t know what animals were in them.
All savage beasties no doubt...why send the guards...?? Bearskins don’t you know...
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Hull of a video. Watching it was a blast. I bow to your creativity.
I guess they called them "seaplanes" because "flyboats" was already taken.
There were "flying boats" however.
sigh....🙂
Thank you, again, Mr. Hazzard for a fine video. If I may be pedantic (?) the term, "Fly Boat" applied to passenger-carrying narrowboats upon the Shropshire Union Canal and not freight-carriers upon the Regents. The unpowered narrowboats under tow were (and still are) referred to as "butties". Whilst upon nomenclature, "Little Venice's" official name is Browning's Pool Junction!
ISTR that the fly boats were allowed to cut the tow lines of ordinary boats if the didn't get out of the way like they were supposed to.
@@cargy930 Yes, I believe that this was the case. I further understand that this was sometimes achieved by the use of sharp blades affixed the towline of the "fly" boat. (Some years before the Health and Safety Act.... happy days!).
Thank you from Australia. I enjoy your commentary and visuals. Spent some time in London...eons ago
I've travelled on this canal in the boat called Jason. Leaves Camden lock I fully recommend. Very relaxing.
Fly-boats..... Were they zippered or buttoned? 😃
And would that be before or after take off?
@@no_one_of_that_name_here LOL
Another outstanding video, thanks! It’s surprising to see there were not more “blow-up bridges” in the 19th Century considering the general lack of transportation respect regarding petroleum product use, flammability & precautions.
Regents Canal is truly among my favourite areas of London ... always fantasize about one day living along there.
And thank you for the history ... although tragic, your contemporary shots of the canal today speaks volumes as to the area’s beauty.
I just learned something today, never heard of this disaster before. Thanks for the video.
Really interesting. I live next to the Leeds-Liverpool canal which has dangerous history in a similar vein.
Anyway, keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
Well what an interesting storey ! And great video ! Thank you ,Reminds me of the fire accidents in Shoreditch turn if the century, where lots of cabinet makers crammed together veneer shops , fires were lite to me melt glues , steam shaping , heating large press plates , etc , a fire waiting to ignite !
Very interesting! I've driven over that bridge many times and walked the length of the canal but this was all new to me.
As always, you take me into parts of history that fascinates me. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Venezuela
Thanks for the map on this one JH. 👍
I'm pretty good with stuff that's on the Tube map but I easily get lost if the place in question has no tube station.
When I was a child, back in the 70s, people referred to it as "blow up bridge" but it was never explained why. The place used to creep me out as a boy.
Very interesting Jago, thank you. I had never heard this story and am surprised that it was not mentioned in Tim and Peru’s video of their journey along this canal.
Another of my fav places to walk. Thanks Jago!
As well as being an interesting story, these views make me want to go and walk the Regents Canal, which I've never done, not being a Londoner. And yes, a real map! Hurrah! At a glance it really sums up the convoluted route of the canal. Also the return of the one-second caption which requires stopping and hair-trigger work on the Pause button to read it ... not so convinced about that, though it presents an interesting challenge. Jago making sure we're concentrating.
Hi Jago, Thanks. There are so many hidden and not so hidden gems in London and it's great to know some of the history behind bits of them. I hope to take my grandson round them one day and this series of yours will be very useful. BobUK.
A very enjoyable posting, Sir!
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Another fantastic Lndon history video. Many thanks Jago.
Thanks again Jago, most enjoyable, David, 🇦🇺 👍
Hi Jago,
I had real blow out on this blown up video. There have been number of explosive events throughout London's gunpowder manufacturing industry as well as from other industrial (mal)practices prevalent in the early days of the industrial revolution. The Silvertown explosion was a huge event as was the Slade Green explosive works disaster. Ok so Erith and Slade Green are in Kent but have been subsumed into London Borough of Bexley but close enough to London to rattle the windows in Westminster when it went bang!
Love the fact that the cast Iron pillars of the bridge were cast in Coalbrookdale and just down the road in Islington is Coalbrookdale road.
Keep lighting the blue touchpaper of history and remembering to stand clear!
Thank you for the map.
And thank you for another area of London I once lived near.
I did enjoy this. Living along the canal, but on the eastern side of it, its fascinating to learn the history. And I would agree wtih you. Walking along the canal is one of my favourite walks
Thank you for a very interesting video, combining two things I've come to love...London, and the UK canal and waterways system. I found a RUclips channel about narrowboating one boring lockdown day earlier in the year. I've watched all the older videos and never miss a new one, and it was mentioned that this bridge was blown up once, but without the detail you've given. Mystery solved.
Thanks for this. I was watching one of your earlier videos and, I think you asked for suggestions, I thought to myself while watching that you should do a series on the canals of London. Then, this arrived in my notifications. Brilliant as always. There are plenty more canal type stories you could cover. Some even crossing over into railway related stuff. How about covering some of the basins and the businesses and cargos that were shipped/delivered there. As someone else suggested, Chronicles of the Cut, is a great title.
I had a brilliant day out on a boat from Camden to Limehouse basin a few years back. Very interesting going through Islington tunnel
I'm surprised 'Cruising The Cut' has not covered this on his channel! but than again he tends to avoid getting into London Proper very much!....
Loved the video but especially loved the canal boats 👍
2:50 i'll bet you hoped nobody would notice that lame joke. What a hide.....
Thanks for a lovely round off of the weekend; Knew I could rely on Jago :-)
I’m one of those “viewers” that enjoys (yes enjoys) your videos and I live in Sydney Australia.
Anyway, thanks for this, I really enjoyed learning about this event and blow-up bridge 🐿
On the north bank, left hand side as you exit the park there is a tree that bears the scar from that explosion.
The reason there are towing rope groves on both sides of the iron pillars it’s because when they were reassembled them after the disaster the pillars were turned 180°. The tow path side groves are the original.
Another great video! Very interesting bit of history.
How astonishingly fascinating! Just so many things I’d no idea about!! One does tend to think of pre-electricity Victorian London as like Ancient Rome: dead to all but the nefarious during the hours of darkness.
But here much like a long distance container lorry driver, industrial cargo is being noisily shipped at 2 am. Now, the properties backing onto the canal are some of the priciest there are; back then it was probably a right racket at all hours...
I’d take issue solely with the description of their speed as “relative” because for a _train_ with five flyboats and a tug to make it from City Road to the park in three hours is actually bloody zippy imho despite the short distance as the crow flies. With six ‘carriages’ each having to navigate across the _three separate locks_ at Camden, to my mind, they were shifting in earnest.
One wonders whether that’s a culverted lost river of London in the striped pipe seen at 1:52 - Caledonian Road?
Thank you. I knew of the explosion, but had no idea of just how big it was. Lucky it wasn't in a lock or a tunnel at the time.
A very good video. There was a similar disaster on the Black Country canals, which later had a song composed about it, if anyone can trace it. Petroleum, in those days, was carried in wooden casks, which were not always entirely airtight....... Even so, loading it on the same boat as gunpowder? Someone clearly hadn't much imagination.
'Fly boats' in the Midlands, often operated by Pickfords, were faster than the ordinary narrow boats (albeit 'faster' was relative) and carried passengers as well as cargo. This led to the infamous 'Pickfords fly boat murder' which took place somewhere between Hixon and Rugeley in Staffordshire, when a lady passenger was raped, murdered and dumped in the Trent & Mersey Canal by the boatmen. You might like to do a film about that; I think it inspired an Inspector Morse book.
Quality video a usual. Must do this walk once the lockdown madness is over.
Why wait? :) The madness is ours to reject
If you then choose to go onto the Grand Union Canal watch out for cyclists. The path is narrower and the cyclists don’t care.
Brilliant video, as usual!
Great video jago, amazing story, a disaster waiting to happen, amazing old photos 👌👍😀
love this video, mood and pictures used
Interesting video again Jago .
Great story. Some excellent camera angles by the way.
Thanks!
You always cheer me up ( and keep me interested !! )
wonderful information, as always!
Just discovered this channel, time to binge all the videos!
Another brilliant informative film on history...👍
Yeah. Tugs! Haven't seen that show for years
a missed chance to say "boom boom bridge"
Your coat is on the rack by the door. 🤪🤭🧥🧥😷😛
*Kaboom Bridge*
Dissapointed this wasn't actually talking about the Macclesfield in Cheshire.
Used to live right by the canal there - never knew about the explosion though, learn something new all the time
Jools i very good on this type of thing...but room for Jago too. Very good
Very interesting and excellent photography.
Thanks!
Great upload Jago.
I'm really enjoying your content x
LeviNZ sends his greetings,,, and thought "Oh-good--something about Macclesfield.". Our son and new wife lived there for two years,, one block east ( I think) of Paradise St... a misnomer if ever thereb was one. Anyway.... we two walked thence, via the "Puss in Boots" pub and along the canal a few km to Bollington. Daughter i law was teaching 2 km further on at Pott Shrigley,,,which is near Alderley Edge.... where Money lives....Even then .2006.. pubs were shutting up shop...
I've mentioned before that giving names to floaty boats is fraught with pedantry., You will have comments from the bouyant few....
Nice one JH. Ta.
It makes more sense to name a floaty boat than a sinky boat.
@@blackrabbit212 Yeah, I did think that after I posted it. Poetic licence? Nah, I thought not...
@@Peasmouldia I can live with poetic licence. By the way, are you elated to the author John Bunyan?
@@blackrabbit212 I don't know if I'm directly related. I once stayed on the Scottish Isle of Arran, it has more of the Bunyan clan than the rest of the UK put together.
@@Peasmouldia Now, that's something I didn't know. Never thought of that as a Scottish name.
I love Little Venice, its so peaceful. Your forget its London.
I'm glad we have good Health and Safety laws now.
Elizabeth Spedding people joke about Health and Safety regulations, but I saw British industry before there were the present rules, and that was the joke. It was very dangerous.
I wonder if the 'Tilbury' was named after the town, port or Fort? It also shares its name with the oft mentioned London, Tilbury & Southend Railway that Mr Hazzard regales us of frequently.
One of your more explosive videos !
A posh kaboom. A big noise amongst the nobs. Another terrific video.
Haha! "portrayed by a warthog". That was priceless. Wonderful video
A fascinating story Thank you. Disaster or not I for one enjoyed it.
Thanks for the map. 😆
Another fact I didn’t know! Thanks!
A bit of a linguistic note; at this point I'm pretty sure torpedo actually meant a sea mine, not the self propelled weapon we're familiar with. Self propelled torpedoes were a very new weapon at this point and were only just becoming viable with the introduction of various stabilization systems.
Top notch pedentary!
There is another bridge that was destroyed by gunpowder in a barge exploding beneath it across the Hertford union canal alongside Victoria park again the bridge was rebuilt
Nice telling of the story. But as a canal geek I must point out that Tilbury and the other boats being towed were narrowboats, not barges, or they wouldn't have got as far as the Midlands. In 1874 the canal was narrow (i.e. 7 feet at locks) beyond Braunston in Northamptonshire, and the last stretch into Birmingham was never widened.
Like the map! 😀
Good one
Brilliant short an sweet or explosive
That was good, much enjoyment had!