A few years ago Mark, 8 of us did a week on a 69 ft narrow boat on the Grand Union canal , did an indepth survey of the pubs , absolutely brilliant time . Great to see you wearing your poppy . 🇬🇧😊
Great video Mark. I have stayed on a narrow boat in Norfolk. Never travelled on one. But waking up in the morning to see ducks, swans and cows outside your window is something special.
Victorian engineering at its finest, the true superhighways of the industrial revolution. Canals always fascinated me - the Leeds-Liverpool canal ran through my home town of Wigan. "The Road to Wigan Pier" was book by George Orwell (1984 fame) and made "Wigan Pier" a thing. Being along way from the sea, Wigan had no actual pier, but a "hump" on the canal bank probably ease the loading of coal - and a kind of ironic folk law grew up around the name. We also had the "Wigan Flight" a run of 23 locks over a distance of about 2.5 miles. As kids we used to play all over them.
That was really interesting, I've walked and cycled down several canals here in the UK but never travelled very far on a narrowboat. I love the general area around where this was filmed. Mid east Wales and the English border area especially around Shropshire and Herefordshire is for the most part unspoilt and well worth a visit. v
Hi Mark, if you're interested in canals and canal boats, take a look at a very clever lock built in Scotland. It's called the Falkirk Wheel! Glad to see the poppy-thank you.
another great reaction mark, i do know a couple of people who have a canal boat, one i follow on line, and another who is a friend and has one from where i live, i also lived oxfordshire for a long time, around canals, i will pop you email about these stuuf, give you some extra info and living in Londo i was closee to the grand union canal
Here where I live Selby has an early canal, with a series of beautiful little bridges, but the towpath is all on the same side. It runs about 6 miles linking the rivers Ouse & Aire, with Loska at each end. It is also the location of one of the earliest railways, from Leeds to Hull, dated 1830. So the canal only had about 50 years before the railway began to take it's business. Until then stagecoaches used to stop at Selby to deliver people to a ferry boat that went to Hull. They used to build ships in Selby, the last being a car ferry for the English Channel service, in 1969, even though we are a long way from the sea. Remarkable!
i was born in Selby. my grandad was a painter at the shipyard and my family all worked in Balby so had to go over the toll bridge each day. However, they knew the trick to not paying.. call out local.
I have walked across the Pontcysyllte Awueduct and grew up in the street where it's designer, Thomas Telford, served his apprenticeship. That was in the small Scottish town of Langholm close to theBorder with England on the A7 road north from Carlisle to Edinburgh..
This is where my two friends and I went to. Unfortunately on the canal boat "Thomas Telford" we were down inside and couldn't actually see the Aquaduct and it's arches. It's pronounced Thlan goth len. Inside our boat was set up like a small cafe, all seats had tables, there was a mini kitchen. The whole area is amazing, you have deep valleys and very high, forested hills.
Great vid Mark, another one for you is London to Brighton veteran car rally start line 2024 there is a vid up 17 hours ago so many vintage cars same era as the canals😉 😀
24:28 The trough is drained and inspected every ten years. The most recent examination showed no significant defects so they perked up some of the paintwork and filled it up again.
21:04 we saw some lad's in a plastic blow up dingey just floating down this canal back to Llangollen. It was a beautiful summer's day with lots of teenagers sunbathing and swimming at the falls.
Mark, I think I seen the same vid were they drained the aquaduct, to renovate. The cast iron 'channel' was in fantastic condition, they barely had to do any work! Great vid mate!
Mark. Llan is Welsh for 'holy place, church, or saints place'. So Llangollen is the place of a church of an early saint called 'Colleen' or similar. Llan is sounded a bit like Clan. The 'ch' sound is common in Celtic languages, & Scots use it all the time, even in English words. You see in these canals etc the genius of the British people in problem solving & innovation!
The point with the aquaducts is that the canals are essentially level waterways, so they have to cross rivers, valleys etc at a raised level, & in cuttings through hills. They are contained bodies of water with the water at a constant level. Locks etc are used to lift or lower boats to canals set at different levels. These have large ponds to replace the water lost during filling & emptying them for boats to use. The aquaduct at Llangollen is a metal box on high brick piers, holding the canal's water. The canals were made narrow so that you get more distance for your digging work than you would by making it wider. It's just wide enough to be useful, with long boats, made for transporting industrial materials from place to place. They were built for work rather than pleasure. The canal diggers were labelled 'navigators', as they navigated their way across the landscape, often following contour lines to make it level. William Smith, the 'father of geology ' began his working life with his father who was a canal engineer, learning about landscape & making cuttings. William moved into coal mining, where he first discovered his first fossils etc in the various strata of rock deposits he observed in cuttings & mines, leading to his interest in geology. Boats should pass on the left, as the steering oar, there before rudders, were always on the right side, because most people are right handed. Hence 'Starboard'. You wouldn't want to crash into each others steering gear, for the same reason boats park on the left side against port walls. Hence Port side.
Lovely to see you enjoying our Canals. You can rent Narrow Boats in the UK for holidays (30mins training and off you go) which we've done as a family - ideal for active teenagers, and as a couple - ideal for getting away from those teenagers! It is such a peaceful way to see the English Countryside, you'll see so many animals, beautiful villages and glorious English fields.
Hi Mark - love Llangollen- have had a ride on one of those horse drawn boats- clangocklen best way to pronounce the town Mark- no way on this good earth would you find me anywhere near the damn Aquaduct! Got a serious fear of heights 😄 take care love to the Mogs x
i grew up about 200 meters from the Tame Valley canal in the black country , Canal never looked like that in the 70s , Manky full of rubbish and the odd dead dog floating past . much nicer these days xAlso a small bag of anthracite, 15 quid , lump a few chunks on the fire , close it down , toasty warm for hours and you dont spunk yer nice wood x Also if you ever do visit , get your self to Dudly where you can learn the art of legging , laying on yer back walking the boat through the tunnel while the horse went over the top
I think the marina cost includes and electrical hook-up. Many people who live and work on the canals over-winter here mainly because it is a flow canal and less likely to freeze
As a child in the late 50's I used to walk along the local canal and you could see these huge shire horses pulling tugs containing commercial material up to London's east end. The canal there in North London is very wide and easily accommodates them. A nuisance if you were fishing as you had to gather up all your tackle.
The thing about the canals is everything is at 4mph tops, so nothing really bad ever happens. The boats are made of iron and have rubbing strips down the side, they are designed to bump into the sides of the canal with no adverse effects. It's a great few days away with family and friends.
As i wrote last upload, me and friends walked this tow path, beautiful countryside, from a friends house at Chirk to Horseshoe falls and back to LLANGOLLEN (clan-goll-en) It was very "INTERESTING" walking over both the aquaduct's as the rail is thin and low for a tall guy scared of heights ( know your limits)
I am English, and know _just a little French and Latin_ but sadly _no Welsh_ and so can (and do) admire those who can be brave enough to attempt Welsh... Good Luck. I will not attempt any, as know I'd butcher any Welsh names!! (I watched a lady touring this area in a reaction video, yesterday, butchering these Welsh names, causing 'confusion' and misled Steve & Lindsay, two 🇺🇸 American Reactors into _attempting her versions_ of 🏴 'LLangothllan' ?) 🥺(etc) ...cringe!!) 🤔🤭🖖 *Log Flume, Mark..,by the way okay? 👍
I’m guessing someone English or not Welsh told him how to pronounce LL. it’s definitely not CLUH. in fact the letter C comes nowhere in the pronunciation. LL is not easy to describe but you need to put the tip of your tongue behind your top teeth and blow out through the side of your mouth almost making a hissing sound. Make the sound before you make an Luh sound.
Hurts me deep when people say "you say it like clan".... An they're usually from Manchester and will argue its clan regardless of me living here and the wife being born here and fluent welsh
Mark , if you're not sure how to pronounce a name type it into Google and it should give you the correct pronunciation. That guy is so cheerful (and slightly loud 🙂) I keep thinking he's American!:
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Thank you Mark for wearing a poppy...top man
You bet... I'm honored to do so
@@MarkfromtheStates £6 is about $7.77 so extremely cheap to stay in the marina
Respect Mark - thank you for wearing your poppy with pride.
My pleasure... I'm honored to do so
A few years ago Mark, 8 of us did a week on a 69 ft narrow boat on the Grand Union canal , did an indepth survey of the pubs , absolutely brilliant time . Great to see you wearing your poppy . 🇬🇧😊
Nice one... That's long. I'm happy to wear one
Great video Mark. I have stayed on a narrow boat in Norfolk. Never travelled on one. But waking up in the morning to see ducks, swans and cows outside your window is something special.
Sounds great!
Brilliant video, love to watch along with you Mark 😊please continue to air his videos.
Thank you, I will
Victorian engineering at its finest, the true superhighways of the industrial revolution. Canals always fascinated me - the Leeds-Liverpool canal ran through my home town of Wigan. "The Road to Wigan Pier" was book by George Orwell (1984 fame) and made "Wigan Pier" a thing. Being along way from the sea, Wigan had no actual pier, but a "hump" on the canal bank probably ease the loading of coal - and a kind of ironic folk law grew up around the name. We also had the "Wigan Flight" a run of 23 locks over a distance of about 2.5 miles. As kids we used to play all over them.
Oh sounds like a great time as a child
That was really interesting, I've walked and cycled down several canals here in the UK but never travelled very far on a narrowboat.
I love the general area around where this was filmed. Mid east Wales and the English border area especially around Shropshire and Herefordshire is for the most part unspoilt and well worth a visit. v
Very cool thank you
There's no way you'd get me up there 😂
Plus that little horse bridge was genius.
Yes it was
I'm going to have to follow some more of your videos Mark. I haven't seen any for a while, but there are some intriguing ones I haven't seen.
Cool, thanks... Welcome back
Hi Mark, if you're interested in canals and canal boats, take a look at a very clever lock built in Scotland. It's called the Falkirk Wheel! Glad to see the poppy-thank you.
Cool, thanks
another great reaction mark, i do know a couple of people who have a canal boat, one i follow on line, and another who is a friend and has one from where i live, i also lived oxfordshire for a long time, around canals, i will pop you email about these stuuf, give you some extra info and living in Londo i was closee to the grand union canal
Cool, thanks
Here where I live Selby has an early canal, with a series of beautiful little bridges, but the towpath is all on the same side. It runs about 6 miles linking the rivers Ouse & Aire, with Loska at each end. It is also the location of one of the earliest railways, from Leeds to Hull, dated 1830. So the canal only had about 50 years before the railway began to take it's business. Until then stagecoaches used to stop at Selby to deliver people to a ferry boat that went to Hull.
They used to build ships in Selby, the last being a car ferry for the English Channel service, in 1969, even though we are a long way from the sea. Remarkable!
i was born in Selby. my grandad was a painter at the shipyard and my family all worked in Balby so had to go over the toll bridge each day. However, they knew the trick to not paying.. call out local.
Very nice.
Thank you Daniel
I have walked across the Pontcysyllte Awueduct and grew up in the street where it's designer, Thomas Telford, served his apprenticeship. That was in the small Scottish town of Langholm close to theBorder with England on the A7 road north from Carlisle to Edinburgh..
Very cool
This is where my two friends and I went to. Unfortunately on the canal boat "Thomas Telford" we were down inside and couldn't actually see the Aquaduct and it's arches.
It's pronounced Thlan goth len. Inside our boat was set up like a small cafe, all seats had tables, there was a mini kitchen. The whole area is amazing, you have deep valleys and very high, forested hills.
Looks and sounds amazing. Thank you
Great vid Mark, another one for you is London to Brighton veteran car rally start line 2024 there is a vid up 17 hours ago so many vintage cars same era as the canals😉 😀
thank you Cathy
Thank you for wearing a poppy.
I'm honored to do so
24:28 The trough is drained and inspected every ten years. The most recent examination showed no significant defects so they perked up some of the paintwork and filled it up again.
Very good... Built to last
Don't worry about pronunciation Mark. We English can't pronounce Welsh names.
Lol yes good advice
21:04 we saw some lad's in a plastic blow up dingey just floating down this canal back to Llangollen. It was a beautiful summer's day with lots of teenagers sunbathing and swimming at the falls.
Nice
Mark, I think I seen the same vid were they drained the aquaduct, to renovate. The cast iron 'channel' was in fantastic condition, they barely had to do any work! Great vid mate!
Yes it was
Parking for the night, the one meaningful question is, "How far is the nearest pub?"
YES!
Mark. Llan is Welsh for 'holy place, church, or saints place'.
So Llangollen is the place of a church of an early saint called 'Colleen' or similar. Llan is sounded a bit like Clan. The 'ch' sound is common in Celtic languages, & Scots use it all the time, even in English words. You see in these canals etc the genius of the British people in problem solving & innovation!
Absolutely
The point with the aquaducts is that the canals are essentially level waterways, so they have to cross rivers, valleys etc at a raised level, & in cuttings through hills. They are contained bodies of water with the water at a constant level. Locks etc are used to lift or lower boats to canals set at different levels. These have large ponds to replace the water lost during filling & emptying them for boats to use. The aquaduct at Llangollen is a metal box on high brick piers, holding the canal's water. The canals were made narrow so that you get more distance for your digging work than you would by making it wider. It's just wide enough to be useful, with long boats, made for transporting industrial materials from place to place. They were built for work rather than pleasure.
The canal diggers were labelled 'navigators', as they navigated their way across the landscape, often following contour lines to make it level.
William Smith, the 'father of geology ' began his working life with his father who was a canal engineer, learning about landscape & making cuttings.
William moved into coal mining, where he first discovered his first fossils etc in the various strata of rock deposits he observed in cuttings & mines, leading to his interest in geology.
Boats should pass on the left, as the steering oar, there before rudders, were always on the right side, because most people are right handed. Hence 'Starboard'. You wouldn't want to crash into each others steering gear, for the same reason boats park on the left side against port walls. Hence Port side.
Very nice thank you Daniel
Hello mark ,me from birkenhead, ive got videos of me fishing on the aqueduct " extreme fishing video " on my channel . I used to live in Llangollen 👍
My vids are shite though so bare that in mind😂👍
And i wish people wouldn't say its clangocklen 🤦it would be closer to say thlangothlen
The actor Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) owns Wrexham football club , he made a great series on it 👌
Thank you... I'll have to look. Where do I find your channel
Lovely to see you enjoying our Canals. You can rent Narrow Boats in the UK for holidays (30mins training and off you go) which we've done as a family - ideal for active teenagers, and as a couple - ideal for getting away from those teenagers! It is such a peaceful way to see the English Countryside, you'll see so many animals, beautiful villages and glorious English fields.
Thank you... Sounds good to me
Hi Mark - love Llangollen- have had a ride on one of those horse drawn boats- clangocklen best way to pronounce the town Mark- no way on this good earth would you find me anywhere near the damn Aquaduct! Got a serious fear of heights 😄 take care love to the Mogs x
Nice thank you for the pronounce help. I'm not a fan of heights either
i grew up about 200 meters from the Tame Valley canal in the black country , Canal never looked like that in the 70s , Manky full of rubbish and the odd dead dog floating past . much nicer these days xAlso a small bag of anthracite, 15 quid , lump a few chunks on the fire , close it down , toasty warm for hours and you dont spunk yer nice wood x
Also if you ever do visit , get your self to Dudly where you can learn the art of legging , laying on yer back walking the boat through the tunnel while the horse went over the top
Awesome thank you
I think the marina cost includes and electrical hook-up. Many people who live and work on the canals over-winter here mainly because it is a flow canal and less likely to freeze
Sounds good to me
As a child in the late 50's I used to walk along the local canal and you could see these huge shire horses pulling tugs containing commercial material up to London's east end. The canal there in North London is very wide and easily accommodates them. A nuisance if you were fishing as you had to gather up all your tackle.
Oh I bet
The thing about the canals is everything is at 4mph tops, so nothing really bad ever happens. The boats are made of iron and have rubbing strips down the side, they are designed to bump into the sides of the canal with no adverse effects. It's a great few days away with family and friends.
That's good cause I'll need all the help
Hi Mark , impressive isn't it great piece of engineering. But my god nerves of steel to boat across that 😊.
You and me both!. Thanks Clare
Llangollen castle is very picturesque, it's a steep hill up to it from the town.
Castell Dinas Bran is a fair step outside the actual town - like a couple of miles, the last one at 45 degrees....
Thank you
As i wrote last upload, me and friends walked this tow path, beautiful countryside, from a friends house at Chirk to Horseshoe falls and back to LLANGOLLEN (clan-goll-en)
It was very "INTERESTING" walking over both the aquaduct's as the rail is thin and low for a tall guy scared of heights ( know your limits)
Amazing! Not a fan of heights but still would like to try it
I bet you have some beautiful places where you live.
Yes we do... But few if any that you can see by canal
Remember, in the UK borders are not (often anyway) straight lines like you have over there in the US
Thank you
Get yourself over here Mark. You will be very wlcome. By the way , it's not parking, it's mooring.
Yes
The LL is NOT pronounced "Cluh". There is no equivalent sound in English . . . whatever English people tell you.
Lol okay. Thank you
I am English, and know _just a little French and Latin_ but sadly _no Welsh_ and so can (and do) admire those who can be brave enough to attempt Welsh... Good Luck.
I will not attempt any, as know I'd butcher any Welsh names!!
(I watched a lady touring this area in a reaction video, yesterday, butchering these Welsh names, causing 'confusion' and misled Steve & Lindsay, two 🇺🇸 American Reactors into _attempting her versions_ of 🏴 'LLangothllan' ?) 🥺(etc)
...cringe!!) 🤔🤭🖖
*Log Flume, Mark..,by the way okay? 👍
Yes better if I leave it to the locals
You do know, Mark, that you can search for a place on Google Maps, provided you have the rough spelling. lol.
Yes but that's not a challenge and forces me to learn
I’m guessing someone English or not Welsh told him how to pronounce LL. it’s definitely not CLUH. in fact the letter C comes nowhere in the pronunciation.
LL is not easy to describe but you need to put the tip of your tongue behind your top teeth and blow out through the side of your mouth almost making a hissing sound. Make the sound before you make an Luh sound.
Hurts me deep when people say "you say it like clan".... An they're usually from Manchester and will argue its clan regardless of me living here and the wife being born here and fluent welsh
It's tough
Mark , if you're not sure how to pronounce a name type it into Google and it should give you the correct pronunciation. That guy is so cheerful (and slightly loud 🙂) I keep thinking he's American!:
Lol I did at first but he's Canadian all the way
The canals and then the railways were largely built by "Navies" short for Navigational Engineers, who came mostly from Ireland.
Nice okay thank you
North Americans making mountains out of molehills again 🙄
That's what we do... LOL