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Splendid, richly informative and beautifully made documentary. I think the quality of documentaries has, all in all, deteriorated in recent years. Certainly this film has more clearly presented and worthwhile content than 80-90% of the recent ones of all types that I've viewed.

As a recent school leaver in the early to mid 1970s I remember the Humber Bridge being built as I worked at the Halls Barton Ropery and later at the Falcon Cycle Works in Barton before leaving the area to join the Military never to return to my roots in the North. After being posted to Gibraltar for two years I could not face a possible repeat of the Winter of 1963/4 when we had a really bad Winter with SIX FEET OF SNOW falling that winter. I finally settled in Sunny Essex where Snow is seldom seen. Tony in Essex.

Damn I was born in 1993. I wonder if those boats are still operating.

Unfortunately no mention of the first canal, the Sankey Navigation

My wife and I spent our honeymoon, a mere 3 1/2 days, on the Ellesmere canal in 2017, and any video on the canals is a wonderful reminder. There is nothing like this here in Japan. If you happen to get the chance, check out Cheshire Cat canal boat hire, the people we rented ours from, they are wonderful people. We had a tiny boat called Northern Lights. A mere 38 feet long. And what memories we have of that. If we won the lottery, we'd offer the company a stack of cash for that little boat, and live on it 6 months / year.

Brilliant!!

Thanks!

I knew your dad. I'm a Guiseley lad now a long way from home

I like how he's wearing one wrestling boot and one sneaker.

I LOVE THIS VIDEO❤ I DID NIT CARE FOR THE ROOM OR FOOD THE RED MEAT DID MOT LOOKED COOKED BUT MAYBE THATS HOW ITS SUPPOSE TO BE. THE REST OF THE VIDEO WAS PEACEFUL ILOVED THE GARDENS N THE COTTAGES WITH THE GRASS ROOFS GREAT BUILDINGS OLD N LOCELY VERY ENGLISH. THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO

I like the norman the lunatic gimmick better than the bastion one

Amazing how cactus jack is the jobber in this match. Crazy how things change

Yeah this gimmick was really bad to me. Just doesn’t work.

Bastion Booger!

On a gloomy winter morn, this with crumpets and a hot tea is exactly what I needed

💙💙💙This is mine! This is me ! Up the BLUES! Up the ENGLISH!

It's not really the story of British Canals, more of the english narrowboat. Hardly a mention of the most successful waterway in the UK, the Aire & Calder Navigation.

Man Mick was in better shape then and Hulk crapped on people like him just because he wasn’t in the shape that he was in.

Oh my God. I wasn’t even alive then but even I’m watching this and I’m like wtf am I watching here.

Manson? Like Charles Manson?

This is when Jim Herd was running WCW, isn’t it?

I cried when the Norman gimmick was gone.😒 People say I was never the same after that.😢

Hi Thank you so much . I have been watching 'The Great Canal Journeys' starting from the beginning. This is a remarkable & full sharing of the rich history of the British canals that helps fill in the blanks for me. This documentary, so thoughtfully put together is the sort of effort that makes TH-cam & the internet continue to be so worthwhile.

“From the state hospital…” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Stolen from Morgus the Maniac, a Maryland Indy wrestler.

well explained!

It was over at the time

Missy Hyatt was gorgeous here. Also, how is this a terrible gimmick? I think it's pretty cool. It's like a non-retarded version of Eugene.

💰 ~ What I don’t understand is how could it really save money to transport goods and services over the water versus the already built roads when you have to build the canals out of nothing? Maybe had the canals flowed without the need to be pulled by horses then I could see how they’re saving money on that area, but horses were still needed. I presume it did save money because why else would you do it, it’s just hard for me to understand how that could be. But I wonder if it’s kind of like modern day where you have different lobbying groups who make big claims to get some thing paid for by the government and then don’t actually delivered in the end. It’s still amazing what they accomplished, but I don’t understand how it can make economic sense.

2:38 the fan that caught the teddy bear looks like a serial killer

Hes so much less gross as this chatacter.

What a beautiful Brilliant n relaxing documentary many thanks for uploading just Amazing

Imagine trying to get home and seeing all those locks 🤘🤷

What a legend he is

Brilliant 6:35 ONE YEAR 😳😳 amazing 🤩 10:50 all of that original documentation is wondering isn’t it. ❤

52:45 I’m honestly loving the almost total lack of health and safety (except for hard hats). Not a piece of fluro’ clothing in sight. 😂 No “Safe Work Method” statements there I’m sure, and it’s the 1990s!!

"Norman" should have gone to a sitcom TV show with Missy Hyatt

Fantastic video and old films. I really learned a lot. Thank you. Also at about 51 minutes it showed Bratch Lock in Wombourne, South Staffs, where we lived for a few years, 34 years ago. We used to enjoy walking along the canal there.🦆🦆🌻🌺🌳

That was wonderful

does anybody know what those works were at 13:16 ? lovely brick chimneys

Similar to Bray wyatt

funny he is going against Foley here.... both guys had a serious case of multiple wrestling gimmicks like woah.

Saw him wrestle as bastion booger and he beat savio vega

I like Norman

55:34 I've Might Go To The Black Country Living Museum Near The City Of Birmingham In Warwickshire England In The United Kingdom Next Year In April 2023 Which Is The Home Of Rosie & Jim The Original Series In 1990 Just After Orlando Florida In The United States Of America. Wish Me Luck. Thanks A Lot Mate. X

0:43 This Music Is So Funky. Thanks Mate. X

What year please?

This reminds me of what I heard about when my Grandfather was a lad in the 1890s. As children they used to go swimming in the canal (in Surrey) to cool off in the Summer. The girls kept their knickers on and the boys went in "starkers". Am told that their Mother would've had a Blue Fit if she'd found out what they had been doing. Also Thomas Telford: Was he the one who stayed in bed on the day that his canal-on-a-bridge, aka aqueduct, opened because he was afraid that it would be a gigantic failure?

You know it's going to be a good one when a documentary starts with a quote from Mr.Rat

Can someone explain how horses "passed" going in opposite directions on the same tow path? Thanks much. Except for lifting the tow rope over another boat I just can't seem to figure it out.