Canals Of London (Part 3)
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2015
- Geoff continues his walk along the towpaths of London, this time heading west from Camden through to Little Venice, and beyond. Along the way he finds exotic birds, a bridge that blew up, and a canal that goes across a major road in north London.
Many thanks to Geoff Marshall.
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This guy should get a job at the BBC, I think he would be a great presenter.
Geoff used to work for the BBC.
@@DavidWood2 what job? When? Why finished?
yes
My father, now in his 90s, tells how as a boy, he would lean over the parapet of the road bridge near where now is located the Feng Sheng restaurant. He watched horses pulling barges up from Paddington into the Cumberland Basin. There was no bridge for the horses to go over the Regents Canal at the junction, so the horse would stop and wait for the barge to come abreast, then take a step sideways onto the barge and be carried across by its momentum, then step off on the other side.
So the re-built a bridge in 5 days but the water-pipe repairs on my road takes 3 weeks, brilliant
F*ck me takes my council over a month 🤣
It's good that London kept the canal. It's part of our transport history.
Random Rubber Duck moment at 6:09 - Loving the videos, Geoff and Londonist
The little rubber duck on the bridge at 6:12!!!
I saw that
Same 😂😂
I used to live on Blomfield Road, about 55 years ago, in a nice brick townhouse.
old brentford has an amazing canal connecting to the old ship yard and the Thames
6:49 Ahhh so great to see a place I run through on this video!! I love watching the cars from the canal at sunset it's really lovely
Never knew about the former Cumberland Basin, that's why I watch these videos thanks!
A brilliant video once again, Geoff. Looking forward to part 4.
did this walk last October on a sunday morning, but opposite direction. It was sunny peaceful and a wonderful way to spend the day
Really interesting series 👍👍👍
love watching your video's, keep em coming Geoff!
My friend's mum owns the Feng Shang Princess. Pricey but very nice food and a great atmosphere after dark, good if you're looking for something a bit more special for a night out.
Really enjoying this series.
Very enjoyable!
Very informative and interesting. Good job!
3:37 yeah, that’s London for you....
When I was a kid ,I think it was known as the seven arches and t the North vicar road regularly flooded ,.There as an Abbey nearby and we very often saw monks strolling around
Me and my friend just walked this path few days ago. We did the King's Cross-Camden about 2 summers ago :)
There's a Westbourne river aqueduct running just above Sloane square station
Keep the videos coming of interesting things around london.
Could you do a videos on palaces like eltham palace, or shooters hill..
I Lived in sight of the regents canal for 27 years and have now leant so much more about the canal looking at this video then all the time living next to it .Great video ,but unfortunately you miss the stretch that i lived near HOXTON
Another lovely video. Shame you never mentioned that lovely little restaurant over the river above the Maida Hill tunnel, a nice view of the canal and boats as you enjoy a meal, but it is only a very tiny moan from me. Love this series of yours by the way.
Between Camden Lock and the Zoo the canal passes Primrose Hill School where Boris Johnson and David and Ed Miliband were students (as was I - but before any of them) - you also failed to mention that I fell into Cumberland Basin in 1965!
Great video Geoff!
There is a place near Southall where there are three bridges that cross each other including an aqueduct
I use to cycle and sometimes walk all the way from Stratford to Regents Park and back again. Took a lot out of me.
nice!! I like boats!!!
Wonderful series! I can remember as a kid going to Old Oak common for the trains the "Fence" was by the canal.. 1980's its was fine and calm there .. but you would not stop any one to have a chat ...or look down in the water :)
It used to be cheaper to live on the canals up until the early 1990s when lots of red tape was introduced and all the fees shot up. Happy memories of our old boat moored at Lisson Grove before that, though!
It still is! If you don't have a permanent mooring and keep moving to another parish every two weeks. Many do it and it is getting crowded, often moored three abreast, but it is possible.
Very interesting video!
Very interesting about the aqueduct.
I use the grand union canal to cycle to school. I always think about ways to get to the middle of the aqueduct too!
The Regent’s Park Aviary was designed by Sir Antony Armstrong-Jones; former husband of the late Princess Margaret.
Some nice info for canal enthusasts,
so strange. your in london but its so quiet. i live in the middle of nowhere and theres more noise outside right now there is on the canal. i love it. also great vid. xD
Very Cool 😎
Another aqueduct is the one that takes the New River over Pymmes Brook in Palmers Green
+Stuart Clary I grew up in a house that backed onto that. Had to phone Thames Water up once to tell them that the NR was overflowing into Pymmes Brook. They must have adjusted a weir upstream, because it stopped within minutes.
Cumberland Basin in London may be gone, but there is still one in Bristol! That being the area where the floating harbour joins the tidal River Avon.
This really was a fascinating series. I have been over the aqueduct on a canal boat, which is one of the most unusual ways I have seen London. What I find odd though was how you missed out everything between Little Venice and there. The bit around Paddington is nice and interesting. Just as you leave Little Venice heading that way there is a device in the water that produces bubbles, to form a barrier for things floating in the water.
Some quite cool bridges you missed by not going down towards Paddington as well as another book shop
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Great stuff. But you walked right by Pirate Castle without mentioning it!
Not a navigable aqueduct, but an aqueduct all the same, is the one that carries the Longford River over the Shepperton (railway) branch in Hampton Hill.
I went to the Zoo from Little Venice on the canal!!!
Man I love these videos! When is part 4 going to be up?
+beachhouse13 Geoff should have done it by the end of September ... we hope!
Do secrets of the National Rail within london next :) only the stops in london obviously haha
2:07 that couple
Whitney green aquaduct? The one above the station!
Had to check the playback speed was set to "normal".
Three bridges on windmill lane Ealing is one of them.
Road train and canal in one place.
2:14 They filmed "The Gentlemen" right on this spot where the camera is, with Feng Shang Princess in the back
So Electric Company save London Canal. Thanks For you Film, So Could Do Part Of Canal From Little Vince to Paddington Basin Please. Thanks
Apart from the Aqueduct what have the Romans ever done for us?
***** Urtication to the genitals to prolong sex?
***** Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health :-P
***** I think roads are an obvious and most important one? You'd struggle to get anywhere fast without them.
Brought peace?
I have now seen all of your tube vids - 3 times over - and am now hooked on canal porn! Fabulous stuff, can't wait for all of the rest! Thanks for another great series. Spoilt for choice now as to what to spot on my next visit on 31st Aug......
I drive under that aqueduct every day! I had no idea that's what it was!
are you going to show the Rickmansworth and Denham area
New River crosses the M25 just along from A10 junction, does that count? Great videos by the way.
And five years later "Joolz Guides" does the whole thing again.
Geoff, great series, just one request though, leave the extra text/comments on the screen for a few seconds longer.
Is there ever going to be a part 5?
Not so much the ropes that wore those grooves, as the grit trapped in the ropes. Any canal boater knows your ropes get gritty.
I remember walking over the aqueduct over the road for the first time thinking to myself that "this is fucking cool."
There's an aqueduct over the M25 for the the new river which is a canal supplying water for North London, and is at Junction 25 for Enfield
Love your videos by the way
A "secret" isn't a secret if it is posted on CZcams!
good
I didn't even realise canals were interesting until I watched this!
Geoff, when I come to London can I pay you to take me on a tour? :)
+John Dennis thanks John! Geoff does tours of the Underground, he doesn't do canal ones though. The Canal & River Trust people do though, if you contact them.
+Londonist Ltd Will Geoff ever make a video of the distinct histories of the boroughs? I.e. Borough of Ealing, or Hammersmith, and the lesser know facts and tidbits of them.
how do you get on an underground tour?
Could you do a video about the new river.
Lol You seem to really love your city don't you xD? But I'm not going to lie, London is interesting and has a great history!
+Geofftech haha cheers mate!
Hummad Ahmed Why wouldn't he? London is one of the most fascinating places on earth!
5.19 mins The opening scene of the film “Georgie Girl” was shot on this ramp.
Is there a part 4?
That was brilliant, try.
It's not industrial past the aquaduct ... Horsenden Hill to paradise fields it's almost rural!
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At 4:40, aren't you backward as to which slots are old versus new? Guide ropes are closed on the side opposite the water and open on the side facing the water aren't they? So the loop would ware grooves in the back side?
There is no loop as you put it. The tow rope runs from the horse to the boat, so it can't go round the back of the pillar! Think of a dog on a lead and a lamp post.
@@MrDorbel Ah thank you. For some reason I was thinking of the pillars being used as anchor points when he said guide ropes. Tow ropes completely clarifies the mistake. Thank you.
What about the fact that this Canal is home to hundreds of people who live on narrow boats
Are you sure that you’re standing on an “Aqueduct” at 7:20 and not on a “Canal Bridge”? Or a “Trough Bridge”?
I thought that Aqueduct’s are providing drinking water to the city....
Don't know if there are any others, but Brunel's Three Bridges near Hanwell counts surely?
I live in Hanwell
Geoff can you subscribe to me
I already knew the exploded bridge s pledge s sign is there
Stabilizer..
This series was appropriate since rent prices are driving everyone into canal boats.
*mooring
2:41 should that not be 1837?
Not a healthy thing walking close to high voltage cables, especially for very young children. The electromagnetic emissions are certainly harmful and I doubt if the cables are shielded.
when is part 4?
+James Chapman Next week!
make more tube vids
Iphone apple..
More mistakes than you can shake a stick at. He opens standing on the bridge into Dead Dog Hole, but that leads into the Interchange, where boats unloaded to road transport by horse and cart, with storage in the warehouse above. It wasn't a stable, that was further up the road in the part interestingly called "The Stables". It only goes to the back of the building, there is no "network of rivers and tunnels" as he puts it.
Euston station opened in 1837, not 1937.
The barge that exploded under Macclesfield Bridge wasn't "coming down from the Midlands", it was travelling West. The canal was indeed opened within a few days, but the bridge itself wasn't rebuilt until two years later. I could go on, but I can't watch any more.
The history of the canal is fascinating, no need to make up crap.
You can do better than that, Paul Money, quote your written sources, so we can all see that you are right, of course. (Otherwise you may be considered to be a troll, which of course, you ain't. are you?). P.S. I am a Country Bumpkin, and know absolutely diddly-squat about the city... but I do like FACTS.
@@lauriecroad3186 Actually Laurie, I am a source. I must have done the Little Venice to Camden run thousands of times in the eight years that I steered trip boats on this canal and perfected a well-researched commentary. I have been inside the Interchange building. It was not at any time a stables. Euston station was opened in 1837 as you can research for yourself.
www.londonremembers.com/subjects/macclesfield-bridge-explosion
has a summary of the accident under blow-up bridge. This video is badly researched and inaccurate and contains much else that is false, as well as omitting things that are true and interesting. If you like facts, this video is not a good source.
Sad to so much graffitti
Its bloody everywhere in London, unfortunately. If you're on a train to London, you know you're arriving when you start seeing graffiti tags on nearly every flat surface available. Stupid chavs and gangs with nothing better to do.
Watch out for rats. Big rats. That bite your legs
Boats
3:33 Oh that'll be stopped before long, the Tories don't like people getting things for free.
Where at labour gives everything away especially to those who don't deserve it, and expects future generations to pay.