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It was the same when the Truxor was on the wilts and berks, everyone on the banks wearing high vis and life jackets and the guy on the boat in his work clothes 😂

Thank You. We try to use both when we remember. As well as being beneficial to our international viewers it also helps our home market. Many older British people were brought up on imperial units, while younger ones are often more familiar with the metric system.

@@herefordshireandgloucester1720 Thank you. I heard that on the canals the metric system was used instead of the imperial one by large....

Fair point. Its not ideal timing. These trees were generously donated to us before we were really ready for them. To keep them alive they were temporarily planted along a fence line. Since then the fence has been removed, and they were now in danger of being damaged. Having moved them, we watered them each week during the hotter weather. We will see what happens in the spring. Fingers crossed.

May 2024 update. Of the 8 trees planted, 5 are looking very good. One is dead. The other 2 are not great, but are showing some signs of life.

Thank you for your words of encouragement. We are working steadily towards building the required embankment in the West. Material has to be added gradually and compressed to ensure that it is stable. Extention to the East will probably be postponed until the swing bridge is in place.

It came from the brook which flows through the large culvert. This is fed from springs at May Hill, and flows all year round.

Thank you. I've recently discovered Lichfield and Hatherton Canal through comments such as yours. It is good to see that canal restoration is thriving in different parts of the country. Mark

Thanks for pointing that out. We'll look into it.

Yes - and how were they able to do that? By employing *THOUSANDS* of men, rather than a few dozen!

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Thanks Richard. I'm one of the admins for the H&G CZcams channel. I actually wrote the description! I have credited myself on the video.

@@MarkAtkin Ah, does this go down as 'my goof'?

I've now changed the description too.

We are negotiating with the football club for a strip of their land, but immediately beyond that there is a minor road to cross. Heading East, we now own the next field connecting us to our Malswick East Woodland. We are carrying out environmental investigations in this area leading towards a planning application for another few hundred metres. After that we need to cross the busy B4215. Funding still needed for that, I believe.

@@herefordshireandgloucester1720 thank you for the answers :)

Thank you

Thank you. Another aerial video showing before and after shots is coming soon.

At the Gloucester end the canal originally connected to the River Severn. The river is navigable from Gloucester to the Midlands with connections to the Midlands canal network. Various options to reconnect to the river from our canal basin at Over are being considered.

Most canal projects are calling out for volunteers. Where are you based?

@@MarkAtkin I live in SE London but maybe moving to Alton to be near the mid hants railway. retirement means nothing but boredom so I often think of things like these....

The heritage railways are always looking for volunteers too. If you want to try canals, your nearest would be the Basingstoke Canal at Odiham. You could also check out the Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) summer canal camps.

I wondered why they now had two flashing lights, a green and an amber. I never knew that's what the green light was for.

Thank you. Yes, we are lucky. We have dug test pits along the next part and the soil there is different. We hope to have enough clay left over to use as a liner where we need to.

We are fortunate that the subsoil here is clay, and holds water. The next stretch will not be so easy. We hope to have enough clay left over to line areas that need it.

It is very much our intention to create a wildlife corridor and leisure facility for the local community.

If you've got one to donate we'll have it!

If you can supply a few hundred fit young volunteers, all with their own barrows and shovels, we could save on the machine hire. On the other hand, our retired professional excavator driver would be a bit upset.

@@herefordshireandgloucester1720 I'm retired and I now live in Thailand. I could easily get a few hundred young fit and enthusiastic guys and gals to do the work. But they wouldn't be granted visas for the UK, and they would need flights if they were. They typically get $10 a day here. There are lots of canals in Bangkok. Many are used for public transport with quite large and fast 30 KM/hr boats. When some of the less used sections get a bit overgrown thousands of volunteers turn out to clear them. I'm sure we could find a distraction for you driver.

I'm there again this Tuesday. I'll find out for you.

Yes, it is a Lister.

Thank you.

Thanks. I've just checked out the Litchfield and Hatherton video.

A part of the Lichfield restoration was re-watered this week as well.

@@johnarnell4241 I'm in Australia so I love coming across all these video's about canal's being restored, so much positivity comes from it esp for local people and wildlife and aquatic species

Thank you.

It is not really surprising that you hadn't heard of us. The H&G Canal Society (forerunner of the current trust) was not formed until 1983. More information here if you are interested. h-g-canal.org.uk/about-the-trust/

@@herefordshireandgloucester1720 Thanks - I love Gloucester and Hereford is wonderful, having a canal link will be glorious!

Hello, it is part of the restoration of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire canal that will give us 600 metres of restored canal.

Thank you.

Thank you. A lot of it is filled in at the Gloucester end too. Like much of the route between Gloucester and Ledbury, this section at Malswick was replaced by the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway.

Thanks. Still a lot of earth shifting to do to get the rest of the site level. There won't be water in this stretch for a while.

There will not be concrete walls. The canal will be built on an embankment at this point. Much of the material for this embankment will come from digging out the canal at a high point. Further videos are coming soon showing progress on this.

I share your concern. We do prefer to salvage bricks for reuse whenever it is praticable. In this case there were relatively few in good condition. We had expensive equipment on hire so it was just not economical to spend time sifting through tonnes of material.

@@herefordshireandgloucester1720 thanks for the explanation!

Thank you.

Thank you.