The oldest and last of its kind in the world!
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- Hello! Eh Up! And how ya Diddlin!? In this weeks video, we’re of to Shropshire to check out the oldest and last of its kind in the world! The oldest iron aqueduct in the world eh Steve? Yes! Haha! There was one on the Derby canal that doesn’t exist anymore, that was older than this one at London on Tern by about a month. It’s a terrific structure, in great condition for saying it was built in 1796 by Thomas Telford. We also have a little mooch around Shrewsbury to, be cause this beauty of a structure was part of the Shrewsbury canal. I hope you enjoy the video.
Cheers, Steve ❤️
You're still teaching us new things about our country and heritage that we wouldn't find anywhere else...thank you very much.
Thank you very much. I love discovering new places, and bringing you all along. Thanks for watching.
What a find👍Looked like a nice day aswell, cheers fellas 👍
Cheers buddy! It was gorgeous on the day mate, incredible sun rise above Shrewsbury.
Hi Steve, what an aqueduct that we never knew existed. Brilliant as always mate thank you. 👏👏👏👏👍
Cheers Graham! I’m very pleased you enjoyed it mate.
Thanks for doing this video - you caught the town at just the right time on a great day - it looked beautiful! We lived in Shrewsbury for 7 years and both my kids were born there - lovely town!
Thank you very much. Shrewsbury is beautiful, especially down by the river.
What a wonderful discovery! I was not aware of it until now. Thank you so much!
Thank you. It’s beautiful isn’t it. I can’t believe it was never scrapped, but I’m very happy it wasn’t
Consider a visit to nearby Wappenshall Wharf and see the work being carried out by volunteers there Steve.
Hi David. We did go there after the aqueduct hoping to catch it open. It was all closed. But we were very early. After looking at it online, it looks fantastic there.
Another great expedition and lovely engineering. I think your videos are really interesting and informative and always look forward to your next hike. Best regards from Newbold Verdon 😁
Thank you very much!
Nice one mate. Great drone footage at sunrise, too. Cinematic awards all round.
Cheers Gaz. Well worth getting up at daft o’clock for!
Great work, I didn't know about this one.
Thank you Stuart. We’re so lucky that it still exists mate. Thanks for watching.
Great video, and some nice detective work seeking out the remaining features of the canal. That aqueduct is very impressive. Have you ever heard of Dukart’s Canal (aka Dukart’s Folly? There’s not much of it left other than a short but impressive aqueduct, now filled in and carrying road traffic, and the remains of his now very successful dry hurries.
Thank you very much! Ain’t Dukarts canal in Ireland? I’ll look it up.
@@LeiceExplore Yes, County Tyrone. I did a history tour of it many years ago. Seems like he was a bit of a chancer! The original plan called for multiple locks, which were quite new & expensive at the time. He undercut the bids & when he got started he announced it couldn’t be done in budget, but that he could do it by using dry hurries.
Brilliant. Have you been to the Pontcysyllte aqueduct? It takes your breath away. I'd love to have seen it under construction. And when they drained it for inspection a few years ago they found nothing wrong!
Cheers buddy. No, I’ve never been. I’d love to kayak over it like Gareth recently did. I seen a video of it drained recently, and like you say, nowt wrong we it m’lad
Canadian here... We're sorry about the terrible geese.
Greetings Canadian lol! It’s fine, I love birds 🦅
I doubt you can get near them, apart from maybe bank holidsys, but Arbury hall nuneaton had its own canal system, of which seaswood pool is it's reservoir. If you look at the weir where the water drains over by the dam, you can see the remains of the lock structure, as you could boat on to the lake itself. The canal system was eventually linked to the Coventry canal in collycroft (between nuneaton and bedworth) called the communication canal. Not to be confused with the griff arm. The system was in use before the Coventry canal.
Thank you for this information! I’ll be looking into this. I don’t live in Nuneaton, but I drive past Arbury hall now and then, and never knew of its canal.
It's worth looking into the history there, I bet they will be open bank holiday. Don't take my word for that though. They own a lot of land too. If you compare old maps courtesy of nls Scotland and the modern view you can possibly see the remains of a mineshaft too. Regards, Tim, from Nuneaton.
The Flaxmill in Shrewsbury also had the canal in the front.
That’s it, I’ve traced it on the map. We also went to wappenshall wharf, but it was all closed up for work they are doing. The aqueduct was the main reason for going there, due to it being the oldest iron trough left in the world.
Such a awesome place, great engineering and quality. Something i think as been lost in the modern age..
Thank you Dave. Unfortunately, it has been lost, and I doubt we’ll ever see it again, so we must make the most of what there is left. Thanks for watching.
@LeiceExplore You are right duck. Your very welcome. Thankyou
It looked to me as though the two slots in the plates containing the holes could be the top end of the angular supports as seen from below.
Thank you John, you could be right there.
I remember reading the iron troughs were cast in the ground at pontycilty & hoised up so maybe they did same here
Hello Pete. They absolutely may well have done just that. I can’t believe it survived being scrapped to be honest. I’m very happy it was though.
Thats interesting. I love it how its isolated.
Cheers Phil. I can’t believe it never got scrapped! I’m so very pleased it didn’t though. And it’s grade one listed. So it’s here to stay.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditherington_Flax_Mill
Hi Andrew. Yes mate, we drove by that mighty fine mill today! A great site. A beautiful town to be honest.