Shame it's the last episode. That was a fascinating series. I'd love to see another one about the canals, maybe the part further west; around Harefield and Rickmansworth, etc. Thanks.
Indeed. Walked along the canal at Rickmansworth in 1981. Took me till 2018 to explore more - Limehouse, Camden end of the city. After seeing these, I'll be back soon to cycle and walk from East to West just as we've been shown here. Brilliant!
Highly recomend spending time around the lee valley and hackney/walthamstow marshes too. Theyre continuation of the canal and then up towards the reservoirs in Blackhorse road area. I lived around there and explored alot circa 2004, in the last few years since ive not been to London Im told there are bars and breweries up walthamstow way (not hackney wick that started gentrifying and getting cool circa 2010) @@mozdickson
Few weeks ago I was in London during the weekend (the foggy weekend, yes...). I stayed in a hotel near Kings Cross. On the Saturday morning I walked to Camden and from there along the canal because I watched one of your videos. It was a really beautiful experience, thanks to your excellent videos!
I used to live on the mooring by the Central Line bridge at Northolt. Thank you for this lovely video, which made me homesick, but also brought back fun memories of sailing to Sainsburys at Alperton!
Nice series.. I live in Missouri USA and have been watching canal videos and vlogs a year or so .. quite interesting really.. love the history of the canals.. Cheers!
I've always been interested in boats and other modes of transportation since I was a child but boats were never my favourite. I never thought much about canals but this series make me appreciate it much much more. The history is really interesting and I'd love to walk some length of the canal when I go to London. I definitely want to go to that book store and Chinese restaurant also on a little canal boat ride.
Hey, it's the rubber duck again! (4:28) I spotted it at 6:12 in part 3 - can't be asked to rewatch but has anyone else noticed a duck in part 1 or part 2?
I loved this series. Have driven past the Regents Park Zoo bit thousands of time and always wondered where it started and how far it went. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks.
Brilliant series, just amazing what you can find In London when you go off the beaten track, will have to try some of these walks one day down the Canals, amazing stuff :)
They used to do quite a bit of filming in and around Brentford ... all sorts of shows ... they even filmed a goth-rock music video on the canal once - we were watching them out the office window ...
A fascinating series of videos. When doing family history research, my sister discovered that our paternal great-great grandfather (a retired police sergeant) actually drowned in the Grand Union Canal at Rickmansworth in 1891. The coroner recorded an open verdict as there were no witnesses. Did he he jump, did he fall or was he pushed? We will probably never know.
Another fine example of the stacked 3- modes of travel is the Saddleworth in Lancashire (Manchester to Leeds main line) railway arches over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal over the River Tame. There is also a canal lock under the arches.
Great vid. On the subject of un-gated rail crossings, there's one just east of Westcombe Park station where a single-track freight line crosses underneath the main passenger line. You can access it from a footbridge that crosses the Blackwall Tunnel southern approach road, and it leads you into an intriguing alleyway that goes underneath two terraced houses!
From someone who used to live upon a narrowboat in this area (Bulls Bridge and Yeading) - well done, Geoff. Really, really watchable and interesting. Thank you! One question, please, where is Vicki?
I used to work in a building next to The Three Bridges back in the 00's, used to have a nice walk and have my lunch by the canal during the Summer months.
If you go to Brentford, you can see the remains of the old Viaduct that leads you to the old Brentford Docks. Also, another bridge once used by the trains has been turned into a bridge for cars - you should check it out and maybe make a video? Btw I really enjoyed the canal series - just finished watching all of it now :)
Didn't they finally get rid of the arch over the main road in the mid 1990s? I worked in Brentford from 1992 to 2001, and have a recollection of the arch, or at least part of it still being there for a while ...
If you like heritage public transport, pop up to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands. It has WORKING old trams, buses and trolleybuses as well as a working 19th century industrial revolution-esque town with a sweet shop and lots of interesting things to go around and see. There's also an old canal tunnel there which you can go through on regular trips. It's also very near Dudley Castle and Zoo, which are also quite nice on a sunny day. Not advertising, just day trip advice.
Hanwell Asylum water gate was never used for patients, it was built to bring coal and hops into the hospital. The large building inside next to the water gate was the brewery and housed the crane for unloading the boats. The sets of three small doors cut into the wall are used for fire hoses in case a major fire occurred in the hospital and more water was required. The canal at Three Bridges was diverted through the asylum grounds during the construction of the railway with the wall rebuilt on completion.
seem to recall that the old British Waterway sign that is by the hospital suggest that patients were brough in this way! we'll have to go back and check. but good info Ian, thanks!
Wasn't all that keen on Londonist YT, but hey....it's proto-Geoff. Also that bloke Matt is pretty good as well (YT just suggested his tour of the River Fleet).
Part 1 th-cam.com/video/ohys6nrYSj4/w-d-xo.html Part 2 th-cam.com/video/rufQ1r88g5c/w-d-xo.html Part 3 th-cam.com/video/--jnGqlTvLs/w-d-xo.html Just in case anyone was looking..
Annoyingly I was really near it last year, but managed to miss the Three Bridges, as the Capital Ring walk continues up the Brent, I'll have to go back!
To continue ..... There was a scrap yard in trumpets way that specialised in trains and aec busses made a short distance away at the noon food factory site ...
I cannot get enough of these, first the underground, then the canals. Have we had rivers of London? Secret buildings of London? Secret tunnels of London? I've run out of ideas.....anyway. May we have MORE things of London, pretty please?
Ik this isnt about canals, but i was just wondering... dont you think that it would save money to just merge the H&C and circle lines? I mean, the H&C is mostly just part of the circle line anyway.... You could call the the hammersmith and circle line
Ronnie Wood (of the Rolling Stones) came from this part of west London. Ronnie’s family, for generations back, had lived and worked on the canal barges.
I think you are fairly local to the w7 area so you may already know this but back in adopt 1995 there was a scrap yard in trumpets way that specialised
I would have thought that Geoff would have included the locations of what used to be Willesden and Old Oak Common locomotive sheds that sat on opposite sides of the canal, only a few hundred yards (meters) apart. Also Kensal Green cemetery, where the canal separates the cemetery and the Great Western Railway. The canal being the only thing that separates the GWR and it's engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (mentioned by Geoff in this episode) who rests in this cemetery.
Mr M, I've found your books on London industrial history and the docklands but no tube books, will you be writing one? I hope so as I really love your videos and a book would be the dogs bo#*ocks!
+ednuttah Hello Ed, the "Geoff Marshall" you've found with those books is not the same as our Geoff i'm afraid! It's a different person, but with the same name.
Why does he keep saying "toe walk"? What does that mean? What's different between a "toe walk" and a "foot path"? He doesn't look like he's tip-toeing.
This series has been fascinating. Superb.
Brillian series. I'm planning to look at the canals in East London today.
Shame it's the last episode. That was a fascinating series.
I'd love to see another one about the canals, maybe the part further west; around Harefield and Rickmansworth, etc.
Thanks.
Indeed. Walked along the canal at Rickmansworth in 1981. Took me till 2018 to explore more - Limehouse, Camden end of the city. After seeing these, I'll be back soon to cycle and walk from East to West just as we've been shown here. Brilliant!
Highly recomend spending time around the lee valley and hackney/walthamstow marshes too. Theyre continuation of the canal and then up towards the reservoirs in Blackhorse road area. I lived around there and explored alot circa 2004, in the last few years since ive not been to London Im told there are bars and breweries up walthamstow way (not hackney wick that started gentrifying and getting cool circa 2010) @@mozdickson
Brilliant series....London's canal network has always been of interest ...now you have made sense of it to me..
Few weeks ago I was in London during the weekend (the foggy weekend, yes...). I stayed in a hotel near Kings Cross. On the Saturday morning I walked to Camden and from there along the canal because I watched one of your videos. It was a really beautiful experience, thanks to your excellent videos!
Thank you for the very interesting videos about the London canals, really nice and not so known places in London. Really worth to go there. 👍👍👍
I used to live on the mooring by the Central Line bridge at Northolt. Thank you for this lovely video, which made me homesick, but also brought back fun memories of sailing to Sainsburys at Alperton!
Love all the different views off London thank you ☕️🍰
Thanks Geoff for an interesting collection of film.
Nice series.. I live in Missouri USA and have been watching canal videos and vlogs a year or so .. quite interesting really.. love the history of the canals.. Cheers!
I've always been interested in boats and other modes of transportation since I was a child but boats were never my favourite. I never thought much about canals but this series make me appreciate it much much more. The history is really interesting and I'd love to walk some length of the canal when I go to London. I definitely want to go to that book store and Chinese restaurant also on a little canal boat ride.
Thanks for this canal series. Takes me back in time.
Loved this series Geoff, great work, so often overlooked by the masses.
Hey, it's the rubber duck again! (4:28) I spotted it at 6:12 in part 3 - can't be asked to rewatch but has anyone else noticed a duck in part 1 or part 2?
I loved this series. Have driven past the Regents Park Zoo bit thousands of time and always wondered where it started and how far it went. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks.
Thank you Geoff, keep up the good work.
I shall certainly walk this when I am back in London with some time to spare, one weekend for sure...cheers mate...
Fantastic. Want to return to London and explore this.
Brilliant series, just amazing what you can find In London when you go off the beaten track, will have to try some of these walks one day down the Canals, amazing stuff :)
The bit under the M4 on the nature trail is also where the television series Misfits was often filmed in certain scenes. Instantly recognised it!
no way!! i thought it was but I wasnt sure
They used to do quite a bit of filming in and around Brentford ... all sorts of shows ... they even filmed a goth-rock music video on the canal once - we were watching them out the office window ...
It’s where all the bodies are buried!!! 😳😳😳
Brilliant video! I love to explore the canals of London and further afield ! They should reopen the Brentford Branch to passenger trains! :)
Great series. How about an "All The Canals of the UK" series? 😀
Great series, really enjoyed that!
A fascinating series of videos. When doing family history research, my sister discovered that our paternal great-great grandfather (a retired police sergeant) actually drowned in the Grand Union Canal at Rickmansworth in 1891. The coroner recorded an open verdict as there were no witnesses. Did he he jump, did he fall or was he pushed? We will probably never know.
Amazing series ! Who knew ? Being from the U.S. I surely didn't ! Way too short though. Cool video ! 👍👍👍🇺🇸
Loved them all, thank you 👏👏😁👍
Another fine example of the stacked 3- modes of travel is the Saddleworth in Lancashire (Manchester to Leeds main line) railway arches over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal over the River Tame. There is also a canal lock under the arches.
Great series; thanks a lot!
Great vid. On the subject of un-gated rail crossings, there's one just east of Westcombe Park station where a single-track freight line crosses underneath the main passenger line. You can access it from a footbridge that crosses the Blackwall Tunnel southern approach road, and it leads you into an intriguing alleyway that goes underneath two terraced houses!
+Sam Barton Ooh, that's great Sam! We didn't know about that, thanks.. will go have a look!
i found this gem so many years later
that was fantastic and very interesting
From someone who used to live upon a narrowboat in this area (Bulls Bridge and Yeading) - well done, Geoff. Really, really watchable and interesting. Thank you! One question, please, where is Vicki?
I used to work in a building next to The Three Bridges back in the 00's, used to have a nice walk and have my lunch by the canal during the Summer months.
I was born and raised in Yiewsley, just up the Grand Union Canal from Hayes. I used to walk down the canal to get to Primary School.
been raving under that bridge at the end, junction 2 festival!
Grand union was the “M1” of its day.
Really interesting and engaging.
If you go to Brentford, you can see the remains of the old Viaduct that leads you to the old Brentford Docks. Also, another bridge once used by the trains has been turned into a bridge for cars - you should check it out and maybe make a video? Btw I really enjoyed the canal series - just finished watching all of it now :)
Didn't they finally get rid of the arch over the main road in the mid 1990s? I worked in Brentford from 1992 to 2001, and have a recollection of the arch, or at least part of it still being there for a while ...
I currently find myself by that bridge under the M4, I knew I'd seen it somewhere!
Boston Manor Park. I used to work in there.
Great four episode series
Blimey, I can't believe I've missed out on this all my life. I have relatives that live close to the canal, but I've never bothered to go down there.
Always interesting.
Further thought, Geoff: Please do further series of the canals of Birmingham and Manchester!
Good documentary. I hope you've explained Part 1 as comprehensive as the later 3 parts 😊
Thank you for these films, what you next Challenge of film front
If you like heritage public transport, pop up to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands. It has WORKING old trams, buses and trolleybuses as well as a working 19th century industrial revolution-esque town with a sweet shop and lots of interesting things to go around and see. There's also an old canal tunnel there which you can go through on regular trips. It's also very near Dudley Castle and Zoo, which are also quite nice on a sunny day. Not advertising, just day trip advice.
I will probably never get to England but thank you regardless! Excellent series.
Hanwell Asylum water gate was never used for patients, it was built to bring coal and hops into the hospital. The large building inside next to the water gate was the brewery and housed the crane for unloading the boats. The sets of three small doors cut into the wall are used for fire hoses in case a major fire occurred in the hospital and more water was required. The canal at Three Bridges was diverted through the asylum grounds during the construction of the railway with the wall rebuilt on completion.
seem to recall that the old British Waterway sign that is by the hospital suggest that patients were brough in this way! we'll have to go back and check. but good info Ian, thanks!
Wasn't all that keen on Londonist YT, but hey....it's proto-Geoff. Also that bloke Matt is pretty good as well (YT just suggested his tour of the River Fleet).
Part 1 th-cam.com/video/ohys6nrYSj4/w-d-xo.html
Part 2 th-cam.com/video/rufQ1r88g5c/w-d-xo.html
Part 3 th-cam.com/video/--jnGqlTvLs/w-d-xo.html
Just in case anyone was looking..
Annoyingly I was really near it last year, but managed to miss the Three Bridges, as the Capital Ring walk continues up the Brent, I'll have to go back!
could you please do another part to brentford?
Good to see a map.
To continue ..... There was a scrap yard in trumpets way that specialised in trains and aec busses made a short distance away at the noon food factory site ...
I cannot get enough of these, first the underground, then the canals.
Have we had rivers of London?
Secret buildings of London?
Secret tunnels of London?
I've run out of ideas.....anyway.
May we have MORE things of London, pretty please?
+Hari and Max Geoff's just done a new video on one of London's lost rivers ...
Huzzah!
+Hari and Max and we just published one on the Crystal Palace subway....
+Hari and Max cave story reference? #balrogisbae
Ik this isnt about canals, but i was just wondering... dont you think that it would save money to just merge the H&C and circle lines? I mean, the H&C is mostly just part of the circle line anyway.... You could call the the hammersmith and circle line
Make more like this, please.
Ronnie Wood (of the Rolling Stones) came from this part of west London.
Ronnie’s family, for generations back, had lived and worked on the canal barges.
So interesting, thank you. Can't wait to walk some of the towpaths!
geoff. you should buy a dvd film with harry h corbett in it, The Bargee. Made just as the canals were becoming less used.
Yes, I've seen that. It has great footage. It's the canal equivalent of Eric Sykes' sitcom of he and Hattie on an RT bus.
subb'd a couple of days ago, what an excellent channel,TYVM
could you do another video through the Brentford canal's
They extended the london overground so can u do a sectrets of the london overground extended
There has been a rubber ducky in every episode of Canals Of London!
My favourite part of the canal to Cycle
The last bridge, walked on, looks like a bailey bridge.
Such an empty area. Is it safe?
Achilleas Labrou it used to be a no go area but as the number of boaters increased it became safer, all those empty stretches of canal are now full
Would avoid most of it after dark tbh
I think you are fairly local to the w7 area so you may already know this but back in adopt 1995 there was a scrap yard in trumpets way that specialised
I would have thought that Geoff would have included the locations of what used to be Willesden and Old Oak Common locomotive sheds that sat on opposite sides of the canal, only a few hundred yards (meters) apart.
Also Kensal Green cemetery, where the canal separates the cemetery and the Great Western Railway.
The canal being the only thing that separates the GWR and it's engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (mentioned by Geoff in this episode) who rests in this cemetery.
I really enjoyed these four videos. I am, however, surprised that Paddington Basin was missed as it is such a peaceful and colourful place.
great series, but why on earth didn't you hire a canal boat for this?!
drevonthief - money? So that he can inspire others to easily follow in his footsteps?
So, on parts of the paths where you can not bike, may you walk your bike?
was hoping you went to cowley
Brill. Sooooo intersting
there is a hayes in bromley too
A great series, thank you. Did you ever get these on TV?
how many days do we need (with family) to do the same? (canal walk)
i know this may soumd wierd but if u ever come to singapore make secrets of the mrt
+Siah Jordan too bad , singapore got not much "secrets" ...
Also this channel is mainly for London stuff...
+AsHalt the channel isn't 'mainly' for London stuff, it IS for London stuff. we're Londonist.com - a website that is just all about London.
I love the duck at 4:26
Mr M, I've found your books on London industrial history and the docklands but no tube books, will you be writing one? I hope so as I really love your videos and a book would be the dogs bo#*ocks!
+ednuttah Hello Ed, the "Geoff Marshall" you've found with those books is not the same as our Geoff i'm afraid! It's a different person, but with the same name.
Hanwell Insane Asylum, known locally as St Bernards, before most of it was sold for housing and for the new Ealing Hospital.
Can you do the secrets of tower of London
isn't three bridges technically two bridges
Yes, but if you really want to be pedantic, it's technically one bridge and an aqueduct (carrying the canal over the railway line) ...
GraphiteProjekt there is always one
So why is three bridges called three bridges, when they're obviously only two bridges?
4.40 yes it’s a “Bailey Bridge”
It’s not the end of london. London borough of Hillingdon does all the way down to Uxbridge and ends at the swan and bottle
BRIDGECEPTION!
CrashBoxNat fascinating series and very well presented, IMO.
Alright geof what is it with the rubber duckie
My pet peeve about Three Bridges: there are only two bridges
Is you are "going West," then have your movement through the shot go left-to-right - as maps also read. Simple.
Brentford was the seat of government of the old county of Middlesex.
So quiet for the M4!
Why does he keep saying "toe walk"? What does that mean? What's different between a "toe walk" and a "foot path"? He doesn't look like he's tip-toeing.
Tow path....as in tow the barge, by horse. I assume.
@@mozdickson Ah... OK. So like a horse is on the path beside the canal, pulling a barge up the canal?
I live in next to the Grand Union! (In Birmingham though)
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Spell check grrrrrr. Trumpers way
i think i’m the only 13 year old that watches these i don’t even live in London
Boats
…disposing of waste an realtors that sometimes com down here…
Bloody real estate agents.
Amazing. Thank you , Just as i remember it , spent many a summer along the Canal or The Cut as we use to call it. Great Vid