A Voyage Between Two Seas- Part 4 of 5 - Down the Aire and Calder to Goole
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2020
- Poet Pete Morgan undertakes a voyage from the River Mersey in Liverpool, along the Leeds & Liverpool canal, down the Aire & Calder navigation, onwards down the Humber, finishing when he gets to the North sea. Now that the series is nearly 40 years old it is a vision of history, from when the Aire and Calder was still commercially active, coal fired power stations and water transport were still working and Liverpool docks hadn't been developed.
The series is in 5 parts,
This was a 1983 BBC North series that does not seem to be available anywhere, if only the BBC would release it as a DVD, I would love to buy it!
I own no copyrights at all, this was a BBC production, full credits are at the end of each episode.
Sorry about a few minutes of silence part way through, the joys of CZcams and their copyright control system!
Thankyou for posting these. It's giving me a happy sad feeling watching the coal barges going down the aire and Calder navigation canal, with ferrybridge power station still whole 😮😢
Went along this canal in 1994 on narrowboat "jubilee venture" during a scout holiday. Great memories of seeing a commercial waterway at work
I'd be surprised if the BBC have still got it, VCR tapes tended to get recorded over after a few years.
The crisis today with energy shows how much we should have persevered with clean coal technology as being developed at Grimethorpe I believe ,,carbon ,co2 emissions would have been solved ,how does a.nation rich in mineral wealth ,surrounded by North Sea oil ,with clean gas to boot ,,depend on power off all sources ,from every part of the world ,dependent on cables snaking under the sea ,a wind that doesn’t always blow ,sure solar panel ,wind ,refuse recycling to generate power ,methane capture ect are part of the mix but why did we burn off all that gas for power generation , a thousand years supply of North Sea gas wasted!
Totally and utterly agree with all you say. It's Politics not science that have invalidated our great energy resources. We could be such a wealthy independent country but we shoot ourselves in the feet time and time again.
Void of any aquatic life in both rivers and the canal , thankfully that's all changed due to the heavy pollution industry closing down