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Sometime back in the 80's we had just finished Left Unconquerable at Stanage and were feeling chuffed with ourselves when Ron his wife and their dog appeared. He was soloing up one hard route and down the next (the route we had just climbed), we were in awe. Later I read in a magazine (Crags?) that he had soloed 170 routes of HVS and above that day!

Just topped out on my first E2 back in 88 and Ron turned up on the crag , giving me a nod, alright he said, perfect day, ❤

What legends!

This is a hidden gem

Great job

The original keenan

I loved my Hanwags!

reminds ne of the Robert Wyatt song, Shipbuilding. A classic and fitting.

Brilliant born and bred in Medway Towns 1963, apart from a couple of pub crawls back in the 80s never thought much about Faversham . Now in my 60s I get down there as often as I can , its lost in time a wonderful place to wander around. This is a fantastic piece social history that needs archiving for posterity. ThanX

Great history. Thank you.

Hanwags and a Whillans harness, O, the way we were.

Used to watch the Will Everard at Kings Lynn the last sailing barge to be used commercially out of the port .

Wonderful. Pity there are no personalities like this any more. Great photos, commentaries, and structure. Many thanks. Rmb5*

old mother thames.

What a wonderful production; so easily forgotten in our "modern" world and yet the economic principles still apply; the "supply & demand". And from an historical perspective; the importance of keeping alive that tradition. Thank you very much.

I remember the badges at the Hythe Colcester during the 1940s.Sometimes stuck in the mud at low tide. I would have loved a trip in one but gr8 years old would only have been in the way.

I made this documentary in 2010. I hope you liked it.

today i learnt what Fiddler's Green means.

I am a Black Country wench, but my father was from Burnham On Crouch in Essex, so my childhood involved time spent by the Crouch and also the Blackwater in Maldon., I remember I fell in love with these beautiful craft and still remember the excitement I felt to see them, especially sailing. This would have been the late 60/early 70s, when they were already an endangered species and a rare thing. Lovely to watch them again

A wonderful film thank you. The footage of the barges under full sail takes my breath away. They are incredibly beautiful, and yet they were built as workhorses. Its a credit to the ppl who restore and maintain them, so we can still enjoy them today. ♥

Remarkable

Beavers are ours heroes!

Sitting here in Munich not far from the Isar river I was over there at the shipyard the whole film. Great. Thankyou. ❤

Brilliant video. I was born in Linfird Essex but moved to Australia 11/ Dec/1971. I watched this video sitting next to a model of a Thames barge my Dad built many years ago back in 1985 The Celia Jane by Ian Metcalf. Cheers Ian

Know this Barge well xxx

As a boy I learned to sail at Pin Mill on the Orwell. I remember about half a dozen Thames barges berthed there at the time, a number that seems to have dwindled somewhat since.

My father worked on the Thames barge Cambria, think I've got a photo of him working on it.

Exceptional information; production;history lesson

Blow boats are cool.

so good!

Brilliant.Loved it.

An excellent film, thanks for posting. It's sad that that way of life has gone, there used to be a lot more people on the land & water, the working connection has been mostly lost after 1000's of years.

Thank you

Fabulous, just fabulous.

As with the Argos,this begs the question: Is it still the same ship, even though it has been cimpletely renewed?

Old Jack Hargreaves will be smiling down from his heavenly chalk stream.

A lovely video of great old times, thank you. Great footage of barges, the characters who worked them, ERF wagons and even sausages !!

I sailed on the 'Millie' from Pinmill, Suffolk, to Maldon, one of my greatest memories !

A relative, seached my family's history and they sailed thames barges. I guess that is where my family name came from. I always wanted to sail and windsurfed, dinghy and sailed yachts for about 35 years . Too old now.

Great bit of history. Any idea when the documentary was made?

Great video ... great subject, great story

Oh, climate change........pfffthkk.....yack

Yay beavers! 🦫

Wow fantastic documentary,I enjoyed that

Great video thank you.

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Excellent. wouldn't mind going out on that

Very cool video

We've friends a few miles away - in Carms - who have beavers on a large pond, all fenced around. We are farming & would have no problem with them in the river at the bottom of our lands because we don't rely on the strip by the river for our living. Some farms do depend on riparian land, it would be unfair to impose beavers on them. 👍

Great documentary. Wonderful to hear accents such as that of Jim Lawrence, that I’ve not heard since my childhood in London. It’s extraordinary how differently people now speak in this part of England