Thanks for watching folks. If you are new here, we would love for you to comment and say hello below!! Welcome to the channel, this is very much the style of video we normally make!
Wow, all I can say is wow. Your ability to tell a story about something many would think is mundane is impeccable. Both Paul and Rebecca you're brilliant!
Thank you so much Paul and Rebecca for filming the James Green Bude Canal. I go to the Hobbacott Incline walking my Husky regularly and have always wondered where the Adit came out at the bottom of the Incline into the Canal. Wow, just wow! Now I know. Thanks for the pictures of the Adit inside. Truly remarkable engineering.
It's a bittersweet experience to watch what was and still could have been, or be again... On the other hand, what nature has done with the marks that humanity left in the landscape is wonderful to behold as well, if not more inspiring.
Nice mini documentary of a very important era of British history for the world to take note of . The early days of industrialization were brutal , but through the freedom to innovate , the world can now support close to 8 billion of us . Thankyou for covering this early period of innovation and economic history .
This was amazing, as a civil engineer I am always fascinated by what was done more than 200 years ago, this is classic! We talk about innovation these days but those engineers were at the edge. Paul & Rebecca thank you for introducing us ( me) to old engineering in the UK.
Really interesting went to Bude last year. I didn't even know about the canal and sea lock until I got there.Its a bit different when your stood on the canal path looking down onto the beach.Look forward to more on this canal. Have a lovely Christmas Paul and Rebecca. Lee up in the shire.
Went to Bude years ago for the Jazz festival and only walked the water filled section from the beach. Didn't have my copy of Lost Canals of England and Wales with me at the time so didn't explore further. Must re visit soon. Great video Paul and Rebecca.
Thank-you for tilling a bit of the story of the Bude Canal. My family has very involved in the area and plans for the canal. The first incline was at Marhamchurch and the “Box Foundry” and the water at the bottom was used for the waterwheel that powered the forge that made the chains. And on up the road is “ Box’s Shop”.
I regularly walk the Planekeepers Path that follows the disused canal from Marhamchurch to the Hobbacott incline. I often get the urge to fill in the outlets that stop it refilling with water. I think it would be beautiful to have water in the cut and the wildlife would love it. Many thanks for presenting my backyard to the world.
8:38 You gestured toward Rebecca and remarked that the view that way was "beautiful". I thought you were about to score major points, but you went with "Bude-iful" instead. Still worth something, but... 8)) Another lovely and interesting video.
Thank-you Paul and Rebecca. I have driven all around this area many times while working, giving very little thought to the purpose of the canal. I hadn't made the connection with the Tamar lakes. So out with the maps and the next visit will be with fresh eyes! Merry Christmas to you both.
I was very fortunate when exploring this canal about 15 years ago, the farmer who owned the land around the Tamerton incline showed me exactly where to go to see the remains, which were amazingly well preserved mainly due to being such a long way from any inhabitation or a right of way. An absolute gentleman to be so helpful to a total stranger.
Thanks for the video Paul and Rebecca very interesting canal and a grand sea lock restored back in use. The railway in the sand is very much still there when the sand washes away to reveal it!!😎🦆🦆🦆🦆🇬🇧🇺🇦
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Victorians had some crazy and interesting ideas like that Incline, the Budetiful pun was brilliant! lol And surprise that you could still hear you from all that wind! Lovely Video and have a Merry Christmas.
Bude is reminiscent of Whitby, which we absolutely loved when my wife and I did our grand tour of the UK and Ireland back in 2015. You have such a lovely, diverse country, but I’m a train tragic, so I can’t get enough of your presentations. I doubt we’d ever get back, you are so far away from Oz.
Another lovely "little" video. And what a lovely find with the display -- would have been bude not to have had a visit and look inside. ;) And what fantastic pictures of fascinating pieces of feat of engineering 'hidden' out in the wild (speaking of the outlet of the Hobbacott Incline). As per the Bude Aqueduct (the Main Feeder), I would say it's not only such a good example of an abandoned (and untouched) canal, but more general of an abandoned, historic track or rather trail.
Thank you. I live in Bude and I've walked along some stretches of the old canal. Strange to think that it was superseded by the railway, which in turn fell victim to the Beeching axe. Old OS maps are great for helping to trace these abandoned routes across the modern landscape.
hi again paul and rebecca , thank you for another cool and interesting video , what a great find lol , really good shots of the outlet , well done and thank you guys :)
A very interesting and informative video. I pity those miners digging a 2 to 3 foot high adit. As an aside the Cornish/Devon border is perilous. Be careful whether you put the cream or jam first on your scone.
The Culture War (which topping reigns supreme by Divine Right, cream or jam, and which is the usurper?) takes a very curious turn at the Cornish-Devon border.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed my old home, such a lovely place, even in winter, glorious in the summer. I felt quite emotional seeing you in all those amazing places.
As you came down the rails onto the beach there is a turntable where the tub boats were turned around. It is usually buried but has occasionally been exposed by high strong tides. I have a photo.
I was in Bude today at the swan boat pool, the tide was wrong but you can see the rail tracks onto the beach at super low tide.....NOW canal boats with wheels...Tarka trail time come up to Bideford and Torrington in Devon I can walk you along the Tarka line and Role Canal and you can look down onto the Role canal to the sea lock and see the boats with wheels at the lock . Best wishes and thank you xx
I'm counting the minutes until you release the next vlog . Merry Christmas to both of you and your family. Lord Michael and Lady Jamie- Lee Campin Robson of Hougun Manor. May you continue to progress your channel.
If you like Greens tub boat canals then a visit to the nearby Rolle Canal is definitely in order. It’s currently being restored in a number of places. Also The Torrington station site must be one of the few places where a narrow gauge railway, standard gauge railway and a canal intersect.
Back when I used to live in Cornwall I often walked along there, but I never knew most of that background info, so thank you. I think if one wanted to "rewater" a "restored" leisure use canal today one would probably need to figure out an alternative method to lift and drop the boats, but the old Cornish mining engineers that would have worked on the original build were certainly ingenious.
I think I remember a visit to Foxton locks on the Leicester section of the Grand Union Canal in the Midlands. They have been built alongside the old incline that predated them. The remains of the incline have been preserved along with information panels so rather interesting to see both methods of overcoming changes in elevation alongside each other.
Very interesting watch your content Paul & Rebecca, I used to swim in the lower canal basin when I was a boy, often diving/jumping off my father's boats that he kept in the canal. Ones that he moored there to stop the local council from turning it into one large car park! Hopefully I will be down there for Christmas with my mother, sister and their partners. Merry Christmas to you both and fingers crossed 2022 isn't too "interesting" for us all. 👍
Thank you both for all your efforts to bring us a most informative and interesting travelogue. Over the last few years and many episodes, you've highlighted and discovered much of the UK's lost infrastructure, and I find this continually fascinating. Compliments of the Season, and all the best for 2022.
Sand was an important commodity for improving the ground for farming across Cornwall. You should have a look at the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway when you get a chance, it is one of the oldest in the World, and was build for importing sand. There are still lots of original features to see.
Not been to Bude since I was 17 that's was 40 years ago, You could get Pasty, Chips and peas with two slices of bread and butter and a pot of tea for 99p. There was also a real Lido for swimming in! I bought my first Dragon Riders of Pern novel there too! Wow some memories!
At the end of the bridge onto the beach you will find the wagon turntable still in place. It’s normally covered in sand but I think I have a photo of it I’ll send over when I find it. Great video as always :-)
Devon has a lot of heavy clay soils. The additions of sand and lime improved drainage and crop yields. The C18th land enclosures accelerated the process of improving the land productivity. In some cases soggy, unusable land became prime arable estates.
A very interesting video about the Bude canal. I never realised this was all here. I’ve been going to Bude for a good number of years now, and didn’t know about the former railway either. Thanks a lot Paul and Rebecca. Stay safe and well and all the very best to you both!👍🏼👍🏼
I live in the area and my daughter kayaks along the Bude canal, I've walked some of it but from Bude beach end, I never knew there was so much more to explore, I might pull a map out and plan a few more walks 👍
Looks like those inclines were the best log flume rides ever 😜 Excellently done - my only memory of the Bude Canal was when we stayed in Bude in the mid 80s and I remember a carnival on the water (I think - I was only 5!)
The lime wasn't strictly a fertiliser. What it does is break down the structure of the largely, clay soils in that part of Devon. Cheaper and easier than burning limestone to do the same job.
You should try the camel trail. The old cornish riviera railway. Bodmin to Padstow. Most is still there. Old platforms and some tracks. All accessible. Even the steam train travels on some of it. You can get off and walk the rest.
That's brilliant...! Some friends lived near there for a few years and we always went to the canal and lock when we visited - should have gone to the inclines...
what a fabulously interesting show. i certainly wasnt expecting to see a canal boat with wheels. amazing. you do canals and railways. how about plateways too? the pair of you need to go back there soon.
Hope you both had your thermals on, just watching the video on the beach made me feel cold! You have a unique gift of bringing history alive and making it compelling to watch and listen to. Have a good Christmas and best wishes for a better 2022. Hope your foot? Is better now Rebecca.
Thanks for watching folks. If you are new here, we would love for you to comment and say hello below!! Welcome to the channel, this is very much the style of video we normally make!
you should do this in the summer
Hi Paul and Rebecca. Another great video. My couple of times G/Grandfather was lock-master at Nth. Tamerton back in the day. Greetings from Australia.
Wow, all I can say is wow. Your ability to tell a story about something many would think is mundane is impeccable. Both Paul and Rebecca you're brilliant!
Thank you so much Paul and Rebecca for filming the James Green Bude Canal.
I go to the Hobbacott Incline walking my Husky regularly and have always wondered where the Adit came out at the bottom of the Incline into the Canal. Wow, just wow! Now I know.
Thanks for the pictures of the Adit inside. Truly remarkable engineering.
Thank you. Loved this adventure. More to come!
It's a bittersweet experience to watch what was and still could have been, or be again...
On the other hand, what nature has done with the marks that humanity left in the landscape is wonderful to behold as well, if not more inspiring.
Nice mini documentary of a very important era of British history for the world to take note of . The early days of industrialization were brutal , but through the freedom to innovate , the world can now support close to 8 billion of us . Thankyou for covering this early period of innovation and economic history .
The excitement of finding an adit, priceless.
Yuuup. And.... I now dont think it was the adit.
This was amazing, as a civil engineer I am always fascinated by what was done more than 200 years ago, this is classic! We talk about innovation these days but those engineers were at the edge. Paul & Rebecca thank you for introducing us ( me) to old engineering in the UK.
"Hardly untouched" is an interesting turn of phrase. 🙂
sounds like you mean the opposite...
Lovely capture of Bude and canal
Really interesting went to Bude last year. I didn't even know about the canal and sea lock until I got there.Its a bit different when your stood on the canal path looking down onto the beach.Look forward to more on this canal. Have a lovely Christmas Paul and Rebecca. Lee up in the shire.
Went to Bude years ago for the Jazz festival and only walked the water filled section from the beach. Didn't have my copy of Lost Canals of England and Wales with me at the time so didn't explore further. Must re visit soon. Great video Paul and Rebecca.
Thanks for the praise of engineers - I'll take it.
I went to bude as a child, lovely place.
Thank-you for tilling a bit of the story of the Bude Canal. My family has very involved in the area and plans for the canal. The first incline was at Marhamchurch and the “Box Foundry” and the water at the bottom was used for the waterwheel that powered the forge that made the chains. And on up the road is “ Box’s Shop”.
I regularly walk the Planekeepers Path that follows the disused canal from Marhamchurch to the Hobbacott incline. I often get the urge to fill in the outlets that stop it refilling with water. I think it would be beautiful to have water in the cut and the wildlife would love it. Many thanks for presenting my backyard to the world.
8:38 You gestured toward Rebecca and remarked that the view that way was "beautiful". I thought you were about to score major points, but you went with "Bude-iful" instead. Still worth something, but... 8))
Another lovely and interesting video.
Thank-you Paul and Rebecca. I have driven all around this area many times while working, giving very little thought to the purpose of the canal. I hadn't made the connection with the Tamar lakes. So out with the maps and the next visit will be with fresh eyes! Merry Christmas to you both.
I was very fortunate when exploring this canal about 15 years ago, the farmer who owned the land around the Tamerton incline showed me exactly where to go to see the remains, which were amazingly well preserved mainly due to being such a long way from any inhabitation or a right of way. An absolute gentleman to be so helpful to a total stranger.
Another brilliant video. Welcome to Cornwall....come down west and visit st agnes station...
What a Budeifull day for a walk along canals! 😜
Fascinating video. Many thanks again. It’s also a good opportunity to visit at least two railway viaducts (those at Holsworthy) I notice.
Thanks for the video Paul and Rebecca very interesting canal and a grand sea lock restored back in use. The railway in the sand is very much still there when the sand washes away to reveal it!!😎🦆🦆🦆🦆🇬🇧🇺🇦
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Victorians had some crazy and interesting ideas like that Incline, the Budetiful pun was brilliant! lol And surprise that you could still hear you from all that wind! Lovely Video and have a Merry Christmas.
Excellent, used to live near there and learnt more in the last 15 minutes than all the time I was there. Thank you👍👍
Excellent, thanks Simon
Please do this one again but in the summer when you have more daylight to play with. Great video, as always, but too short😄
Bude is reminiscent of Whitby, which we absolutely loved when my wife and I did our grand tour of the UK and Ireland back in 2015. You have such a lovely, diverse country, but I’m a train tragic, so I can’t get enough of your presentations. I doubt we’d ever get back, you are so far away from Oz.
Another lovely "little" video. And what a lovely find with the display -- would have been bude not to have had a visit and look inside. ;) And what fantastic pictures of fascinating pieces of feat of engineering 'hidden' out in the wild (speaking of the outlet of the Hobbacott Incline).
As per the Bude Aqueduct (the Main Feeder), I would say it's not only such a good example of an abandoned (and untouched) canal, but more general of an abandoned, historic track or rather trail.
I used to live in Bude, and quite fabulous (if a little windy) it looked too! And such a little known story.
What a fascinating bit of history. I would have loved to see that incline in operation back in the day. Another great video.
We didn't get a chance, but there is a working model in the local museum.
Our favourite place Bude, we spent many years on holiday there but didn’t know half of what you told us , thank you.
That adit is a remarkable discovery. If that is not under some kind of preservation order, it should be. Well done!
Thank you. I live in Bude and I've walked along some stretches of the old canal. Strange to think that it was superseded by the railway, which in turn fell victim to the Beeching axe. Old OS maps are great for helping to trace these abandoned routes across the modern landscape.
hi again paul and rebecca , thank you for another cool and interesting video , what a great find lol , really good shots of the outlet , well done and thank you guys :)
A very interesting and informative video.
I pity those miners digging a 2 to 3 foot high adit.
As an aside the Cornish/Devon border is perilous. Be careful whether you put the cream or jam first on your scone.
The "jam first" vs "cream first" war is real. I've been in hiding for years because I got it wrong once.
hedge your bets, put them on at the same time 🤣
i’m a jam first person, only because i prefer cream on top of it for the contrast of flavors 😉
@@bostonrailfan2427 if only i'd thought of this, or putting them next to each other... ahh hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I live life on the edge as I'm Cornish, but I prefer my cream teas the Devon way😱...
The Culture War (which topping reigns supreme by Divine Right, cream or jam, and which is the usurper?) takes a very curious turn at the Cornish-Devon border.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed my old home, such a lovely place, even in winter, glorious in the summer. I felt quite emotional seeing you in all those amazing places.
Great video, fascinatingly informative. Love your work, Paul and Rebecca!
As you came down the rails onto the beach there is a turntable where the tub boats were turned around. It is usually buried but has occasionally been exposed by high strong tides. I have a photo.
Thanks Keith. Sadly we didn't see any evidence on the beach on this occasiin
Fascinating stuff!
I love these videos of rare ways to get a boat from point A to B in weird experimental ways
Yup, lots of craziness going on here!
I was in Bude today at the swan boat pool, the tide was wrong but you can see the rail tracks onto the beach at super low tide.....NOW canal boats with wheels...Tarka trail time come up to Bideford and Torrington in Devon I can walk you along the Tarka line and Role Canal and you can look down onto the Role canal to the sea lock and see the boats with wheels at the lock . Best wishes and thank you xx
Pleased to see your ankle is better R.
Thank you for an excellent tour!
I'm counting the minutes until you release the next vlog . Merry Christmas to both of you and your family. Lord Michael and Lady Jamie- Lee Campin Robson of Hougun Manor. May you continue to progress your channel.
Thanks again both for a fascinating little bit of transport history. Keep it up (especially when it’s a bit warmer 🌞 ).
Thanks for another great instalment. Have a great Christmas guys. All the best to you and the family. 👍🙏
Yet another fantastic video. Learnt something new today. Thanks Paul and Rebecca.
Great Explore Guys !!!
Fascinating stuff! Well done and happy Christmas!
Terrific as usual, thanks for all your efforts throughout the year. Have a very happy Christmas.🎄
If you like Greens tub boat canals then a visit to the nearby Rolle Canal is definitely in order. It’s currently being restored in a number of places. Also The Torrington station site must be one of the few places where a narrow gauge railway, standard gauge railway and a canal intersect.
This week's documentary particularly interesting, I would say a lot of work gone into this episode as it really well put together, thanks guys.
Back when I used to live in Cornwall I often walked along there, but I never knew most of that background info, so thank you. I think if one wanted to "rewater" a "restored" leisure use canal today one would probably need to figure out an alternative method to lift and drop the boats, but the old Cornish mining engineers that would have worked on the original build were certainly ingenious.
I think I remember a visit to Foxton locks on the Leicester section of the Grand Union Canal in the Midlands. They have been built alongside the old incline that predated them. The remains of the incline have been preserved along with information panels so rather interesting to see both methods of overcoming changes in elevation alongside each other.
Very interesting watch your content Paul & Rebecca, I used to swim in the lower canal basin when I was a boy, often diving/jumping off my father's boats that he kept in the canal. Ones that he moored there to stop the local council from turning it into one large car park! Hopefully I will be down there for Christmas with my mother, sister and their partners.
Merry Christmas to you both and fingers crossed 2022 isn't too "interesting" for us all. 👍
Thanks guys - another marvellous video
One of the most engineeringly interesting canal videos so far, so thank you. I need to do some homework!
Thank you both for all your efforts to bring us a most informative and interesting travelogue. Over the last few years and many episodes, you've highlighted and discovered much of the UK's lost infrastructure, and I find this continually fascinating. Compliments of the Season, and all the best for 2022.
First class! Very nicely put together and watchable.
Sand was an important commodity for improving the ground for farming across Cornwall. You should have a look at the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway when you get a chance, it is one of the oldest in the World, and was build for importing sand. There are still lots of original features to see.
Not been to Bude since I was 17 that's was 40 years ago, You could get Pasty, Chips and peas with two slices of bread and butter and a pot of tea for 99p. There was also a real Lido for swimming in! I bought my first Dragon Riders of Pern novel there too! Wow some memories!
Been to Bude many times and have researched the canal extensively.Great video Paul it’s lovely to see our shared interest
This was an awesome vid about the UK's canal system!! Thanks, a Canadian fan
Cool pics of the outlet 👍
At the end of the bridge onto the beach you will find the wagon turntable still in place. It’s normally covered in sand but I think I have a photo of it I’ll send over when I find it.
Great video as always :-)
Devon has a lot of heavy clay soils. The additions of sand and lime improved drainage and crop yields. The C18th land enclosures accelerated the process of improving the land productivity. In some cases soggy, unusable land became prime arable estates.
Have you ever wandered along the Montgomery canal in mid Wales . It's epic . Well worth an explore .
Most certainly on the list
A really fascinating video. Read about the canal and James Green and his inclines but never had a chance to see whatis left. Great stuff. Thanks.
Awesome video, packed with history and details, well done.. Thanks!
Brilliant. That was so interesting. Thank you for braving that weather for us. Superb filming and info.
Dad jokes with Paul, it was budefull.
The vlog was once again really interresting!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year 🎅🏻🧑🏼🎄❄️⛄️☃️🎄
Happy Christmas Paul and Rebecca thanks for your hard work making these interesting videos see you next year with more of the same
So much in a short video, saw the lock as a child but knew nothing about the canal or its history. The inclined planes are fascinating.
Very nice do come back, and do some more.you missed the old turn table just as you get on the beach, it comes and goes depending on the sand
Frustratingly we saw no rails on the sand at all.
glad to see Rebecca's ankle is better
A very interesting video about the Bude canal. I never realised this was all here. I’ve been going to Bude for a good number of years now, and didn’t know about the former railway either. Thanks a lot Paul and Rebecca. Stay safe and well and all the very best to you both!👍🏼👍🏼
I live in the area and my daughter kayaks along the Bude canal, I've walked some of it but from Bude beach end, I never knew there was so much more to explore, I might pull a map out and plan a few more walks 👍
Looks like those inclines were the best log flume rides ever 😜
Excellently done - my only memory of the Bude Canal was when we stayed in Bude in the mid 80s and I remember a carnival on the water (I think - I was only 5!)
It did have me wondering if they ever used the tubs to sit in as well. Must have been very tempting.
Another great informative video.keep the videos coming.all the best for Christmas and New year.happy holidays to all.🎄👍
That was fascinating about our home town, gad to see so much of the history of our canal, thank you both very much. Steve
The lime wasn't strictly a fertiliser. What it does is break down the structure of the largely, clay soils in that part of Devon. Cheaper and easier than burning limestone to do the same job.
Bude is in Cornwall :-)
@@tomgruitt6563 Badly phrased, clay soil in the West Country
@UK-Hon? Ahh I’ve got you!
Fantastic shot down that adit!
Merry Christmas, Paul and Rebecca! Thanks for the amazing journeys!
Will be good to see the lido. It is amazing, it can be the hottest day of the year and the water is still freezing cold
Informative video ImBude with a sense of adventure and a return to nature.
Really good video.
Very interesting, I never knew so much engineering took place on canals, such hard work
Got some history for you at Dudley Canal and Tunnel trust if your ever in the midlands.
You have a Great channel. Gave me many new places to explore.
You should try the camel trail. The old cornish riviera railway. Bodmin to Padstow. Most is still there. Old platforms and some tracks. All accessible. Even the steam train travels on some of it. You can get off and walk the rest.
There is a little used tunnel near there - the Bude Tunnel, might be worth a visit?
Pray tell more! drop us an email.
@@pwhitewick Don't go looking for this one guys. Google is your friend.
Another very interesting video and love the narrow gauge railway at the end. Merry Christmas Paul and Rebecca and a Happy New Year!
Wonderful landscapes that you have, here every beautiful piece of earth is ruined with windmills.
That's brilliant...! Some friends lived near there for a few years and we always went to the canal and lock when we visited - should have gone to the inclines...
Absolutely fascinating. And that addit. Thank you.
what a fabulously interesting show. i certainly wasnt expecting to see a canal boat with wheels. amazing. you do canals and railways. how about plateways too? the pair of you need to go back there soon.
Most certainly. Anything that's landscape and historically transport based. We will be there.
@@pwhitewick , and i'll be watching.
Fantastic guys!! as always. Have yourselves a Great Christmas. Mike
I walked some of the Bude canal 30+ years ago when my parents lived at Westward Ho! It has not changed much in 30 years
Westward Ho! Great name. The only place name in the uk that uses an exclamation mark apparently....
Hope you both had your thermals on, just watching the video on the beach made me feel cold! You have a unique gift of bringing history alive and making it compelling to watch and listen to. Have a good Christmas and best wishes for a better 2022. Hope your foot? Is better now Rebecca.
Very interesting Very cold 🥶 Brrrr..!! Well done 👍
Thanks Janina. Feeling the cold watching this back myself!
@@pwhitewick ~ yes I bet it does too ... what time of the year were you there ? I loved Bude in the summer .. very different place of course 😃
@@janinapalmer8368 actually only about three weeks ago, so not the best plan!
I am really enjoying your stuff
2nd part would be great really interesting to see behind the scenes of where I live