300. Joining two countries - by canal
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- The Montgomery canal which runs from Shropshire into north Wales is absolutely beautiful but only parts of it are in water and useable by boats. Efforts are underway to connect the whole length and this video covers the latest developments.
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More information about the canal at themontgomerycanal.org.uk
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Crickheath: goo.gl/maps/ro1K1apfFXn4MZfY9
Schoolhouse Bridge: goo.gl/maps/u6VCDprKe2mKV6KT8
Llanmynech: goo.gl/maps/TpZchzeCjzNMahnw9
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The Montgomery canal which runs from Shropshire into north Wales is absolutely beautiful but only parts of it are in water and useable by boats. Efforts are underway to connect the whole length and this video covers the latest developments.
My prior video about the Welshpool section: czcams.com/video/XoyyqFrYASg/video.html
For more information about the canal, see themontgomerycanal.org.uk
Map locations
Crickheath: goo.gl/maps/ro1K1apfFXn4MZfY9
Schoolhouse Bridge: goo.gl/maps/u6VCDprKe2mKV6KT8
Llanmynech: goo.gl/maps/TpZchzeCjzNMahnw9
Its wonderful that you Brits are restoring your old canals! 👍Thank you for sharing.😊
In the eastern portion of the USA there are several closed canals. The canals that stayed open were those that were
widened, dredged out (and in some cases) new channels dug or existing rivers dredged; in the first quarter of the
20th century for steam and (later) diesel-fueled barges.
These existing canals run through areas that are not mountainous or even very hilly , but locks are required along
the routes. In New York state, four working/currently in use canals exist. In many cases the orginal Erie canal and
the "improved" Erie Canal beds are used as feeder canals for the existing canal.
In New York state the towpaths of the second phase of the Erie Canal have been made into a National Heritage
Canalway Trail. Also, additional bicycle, hiking walking trails were built along the route of the currently open Erie
Canal that (it was built without a towpath), in some cases secondary roads are used.
You may or may not be interested; but if you are, this site shows where the phases of the Erie Canal existed/exists
*Erie Canal Mapping Project (Intro)*
eriecanalmappingproject.com/
As a local, I can say this is a beautiful canal. The Welsh government has gifted £15m for the Welsh section to dredge the entire length to navigable depth and there have been plans submitted for bridges to restore the breaches where the A483 cuts the channel, with new bridges also west of Llanymynech and restoration of the aqueduct over the river vyrnwy. So things are moving nicely.
Great pronunciation of the Welsh names, appreciate the effort
I try!
I will forever miss your cruising videos, but I will also forever love your documentary videos!
Glad you like them!
Excellent opening sequence David....good stuff...
Good to see people showing interest in restoring something historic in your country. Alas the people of the country I live in have no interest in maintaining and restoring historic places. They are hell bent on destroying them and that the very sad part to see.
Yes, the UK is good at appreciating and restoring historic buildings, trains, planes.....and even canals!
@@robertp.wainman4094 also very good at destroying them.
A wonderful and heartening restoration project, making the case for reopening many more of our abandoned waterways. These should be a vital part of a 'green economy', accessible to, and enjoyable by all.
My (not) regular fix of Cruising the Cut.
Besides the impeccable production, and great images, I think one of the best things here is the narration.
Really, David has a talent to just... speak. It doesn't feel like someone is telling me the thing. It feels more like I'm hearing an old friend talking, telling his tales and whatnot. A true gem, as always.
You really are most kind, thank you 😊
So cool! Love the priorities of gathering to support nature and people together
😀😀
David, it’s great to see the continuity of your stories. The episode with the isolated section and the horse ride is one of my favorite stories.
Congratulations on perfect welsh pronunciation.
Haha thanks; I consulted a Welsh friend 😀
A jewel in the Crown of your vlogs David. Whenever you film a canal restoration project we watch guaranteed.
We have now just said a must cruise onto the Llangollen canal to journey onto the Montgomery when we get back on board.
Thanks for your time and effort to produce this vlog David.
Take care whilst filming.
Thank you
Impressed with your pronunciation of Welsh!
A really nice, feel good story for your 300th video. Thanks for all your efforts in getting these to us in internet land.
I love to see these bits of history being restored and cherished.
A brilliant pallet cleanser David, after the lackluster viewership of my latest narrowboat vlog… this is why we need you, a seasoned broadcaster. David, this is a fantastic contribution to a long line of videos, so beneficial, needed and absolutely necessary in keeping this life alive!
Many thanks!
This brilliant. I’ve just moved to near Welshpool from Cambridgeshire and I walk this canal. I also walked the Llangollen the same day you released that vlog ironically. Great work thank you
Thank you! Bravo to everyone connected with this project!!
What a brilliant video.
I live less than a mile from School House Bridge. There is a very big hole there now. With big cages full of stones.
Next time you come within a mile of my house, let me know I’ll put the kettle on. You’ll have to bring your own cheese sandwich, I don’t like cheese sandwiches.
I will happily eat them all!
Congratulations on the 300! Seeing the old canals coming back to life and the history around it is both interesting and enjoyable! Thank You!
Thank you very much!
Any section of canal being reopened is an excellent piece of good news, David you probably know this, but for those that dont; The Ballinamore Ballyconnell canal on the border regions in Ireland reopened in 1994 after being derelict since 1869. It opened in 1860 linking the River Shannon with Lough Erne for commercial traffic. Steam was making inroads even in Ireland in those days and in its final year only nine boats are recorded as passing along the route. Its way busier now than the builders could have ever imagined. With private and hire cruisers in travelling both directions. Its hoped, I read recently to re open a section to join to Lough Neagh . I might be wrong about that. One big advantage was most of the lock structures were still in place. No gates of course and a distinct lack of water in a lot of places. So where there is a will, the canal will be reconnected.
I am very proud of you, British, for taking interest in maintaining and expanding your heritage! You are an example for the rest of the world. Thank you for sharing! Cheers from sunny Puerto Rico!
Took them long enough. Like no joke the British cut some serious historical artifacts from their budget. Stuff like warspite the single most decorated warship to ever exist and they scrap her.
As much as I wish we would care for our heritage as well my island co inhabitant, we at least take care of el Morro
Good to see the canals being restored. Llanymynech is not just the border village, but also has an interesting fact. As many older people will remember, trying to get a drink or buy alcohol in Wales on a Sunday used to be very difficult if not nigh on impossible. In the days when pubs shut on Sundays in Wales, there used to be a pub in Llanymynech called 'The Lion'. The pub building straddled the Welsh-English border and had one bar in Wales and the other in England. On Sundays, the bar in Wales was closed, but the bar in England was open. David did a good job of pronouncing Llanymynech, although his second attempt was far better than the first in terms of where he placed the accents. Whilst written Llanymynech these days, it is actually composite of three words. Llan-y-mynech. The accent coming on the penultimate syllable.
For those that are interested and to make travel easier, the Welsh language, like English has two 'th' sounds. However, unlike English, these are distinguished by two different letters. These are 'th' and 'dd'. 'Th' is always as the English 'th' in 'think', 'thought' and 'dd' (6th letter in the Welsh alphabet) is always as in 'there/their'. 'Llan' has two meanings. The original being an enclosed clearing of land. That can be by trees, rivers or walls. These clearings were likely gathering spots for ancient saints and churches were likely often built on those clearings and 'llan' became to also mean 'church' and many place names in Wales have Llan coupled with another word which often the name of a saint. There are also place names that are merely geographical such as 'Llangoed' (clearing in the trees) or Llangwm (clearing in a small valley/glen/combe). It is an ancient Celtic word and knowing the meaning, can be seen to be closer to the English word for 'land' than might first appear. If you travel to Wales, enjoy! Be it by barge, van or other means.
Dude! 300 videos. What a massive amount of work. Thank you!
Cheers!
I am so glad at 11:50 you asked, 'What's the point' Me, I understand, but for new viewers, some may not realise how big and how popular the canal network is used and not just by narrow boaters.
Another great video, thanks for sharing, I always sigh in contentment when I see a fresh alert from you. Always a good watch 😊
Thank you
Cheers to all those dedicating their time to the restoration of the canal in order to raise other people's quality of life.
I’m just grateful that you coulda let this channel die, but you didn’t. Thank you.
Edit: oh yea congrats on 300!
Another jewel in the making and yet another feather in your cap David .
Well done another superb bit of Canal history revealed, and quite beautiful too Congratulations to all the folks involved and the Lottery trust for their recognition.
Cheers David from ex pat Ralph Wood in Canada
Many thanks!
Nice to see yet another canal being brought back to life… not an easy/quick task to achieve but well worth it in the long run. 😃😀😁
Wonderful video, David. Congratulations on #300 mate! 🎉❤
Thanks so much!
@@CruisingTheCut You are very welcome!
I love your vlogs, but I have a problem...every time I watch one, I have to add to the list of the places I want to see when I visit the UK. lol Now the Monty is on my list too! Thanks for another great video! :0)
Ditto! - The same for me too, and my English heritage roots back in the 1700s are very near to this spot, just east over in Worthen, so would love to visit this area. Cheers, David.
I just got back from a month in the UK, and many of the places I visited were selected because of this channel.
Simply a wonderful idea to increase the canal system. The ecological benefits are obvious. Wherever there is water, there is wildlife. Thank you for this video!
I’m excited for the future to see this completed at some point
A few generations of my family were raised in Shropshire last century, and contributed to the Community through various Church building projects and school educational programs.
They would've been very impressed with this wonderful restoration and video feature. Perhaps later generations will revisit the restored canal to enjoy the country life of yesteryear. Thanks David.
That canal is going to be in a fresh verdant beautiful place with wonderful scenery.
Great to see the Canal being Restored and re-opened. It's indeed part of British Culture and History, Has to be restored.
Congratulations on episode 300. I always enjoy your canal videos. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
Congrats on your #300 video!
Thank you!!
This should be at least video #301, because there is the glorious episode #62a, which should not be missed! 😀
Loved the video. I really enjoy hearing from the people actually doing the work and the explanations of what is happening.
Love your videos David, but without doubt the best thing is how much your sponsor bit at the start sounds like a 70s era cinema ad for a local business. "Visit the Ming Wah Chinese Restaurant - just 5 minutes from this cinema."
And you know why they did that - because it worked! Useful, relevant information presented concisely and clearly to an appropriate audience. Same here 😀
That was a great video for your 300th! Many thanks!
Thank you too!
David’s videos are always the very best. Thank you, David.
Much appreciated 😊
Definitely a canal to cruise once the restoration is complete. Thanks for a fascinating video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This sort of report by you on canals being restored is very interesting. Thank you.
Now this is one worthwhile and wonderful project which will be amazing when finished!
Fingers crossed!
@@CruisingTheCut Watching from very far away in Africa, my country relies on tourism a lot . This will happen with or without fingers as soon as the money flows in more and it will. Especially when they see your amazing videos! Thank you for that!
Hello from Detroit Michigan USA Great video Brother thank you for taking us on your adventure
I was on the Monty in my friends boat in May. We had to turn around just past Maesbury. Looking forward to a longer trip to Crickheath. Anyone who is planning a trip, the pubs are shut Monday and Tuesday. The two days we were there. 😢
Congratulations to all those volunteers who are making this possible.
David, another top notch documentary. I don't like to call your work a vlog as there is a lot of technical expertise in how you craft your films. Thank you.
Thanks 👍
Gratulations on your 300th episode! We've watched them all. You have a very unique channel, and it has evolved well over the years. Best wishes for at least another 300 from Clarendon, Vermont, USA!
Thanks 😊
I enjoyed the video on the Welshpool section with the horse-drawn boat, so this follow-up is very welcome. I’d love to see the new bridge being built and installed.
Cracker has retired now and they were advertising for a new volunteer horse and his owner.
Amazing video. wold love to see mhemore pieces on all the restoration projects around the UK and the challenges facing them.
Lovely vid. Humbling to see volunteers coming together over something like this - and lovely too, just to see the scenery
Great informative video! Looking forward to updates ♥
Thanks so much!
Congratulations on your 300th Video! Well done :)
Thank you very much!
Very excited to see it finished! I love facts and bits of history. Wonderful to see so many people volunteering and happy to merge the canal to Welsh canals!
Would just like to say i thoroughly enjoyed this episode, my only gripe was it didnt go on for longer. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
300 episodes, and this one was an example of why you've been around so long. Telling the story of a project that brought a community together, the future of it, and the people who made it happen. I've been around since the 100's, and look forward seeing what's down the canal
Congratulations on 300 vlogs!
Thank you!!
🇺🇸As am American, I LOVE your channel! I love your non-talking videos when I want peace and quiet.
Thank you 😊
It really is amazing to see people of all different backgrounds with various expertise coming together to make a project like move forward. Watching these old dried up canal beds come back to life is truly satisfying and really does enhance the quality of life in the area by promoting outdoor leisure and fun for everybody! So interesting to see how something like this is restored thanks for sharing David! Can’t wait until you document its completion sometime in the future!
That was really enjoyable. Looked so pretty. Thank you for showing us this amazing progress
Very well done piece - as one would expect! Cheers.
I'm glad you mentioned the ownership aspect of the canal bed. I was wondering if it had fallen into private ownership in places or, as you made clear, was still in the hands of the CRT. Another enjoyable and informative docuvlog.
Love the singers and the community efforts ❤🎉
David, your videos remind me that there is still good in the world, and I'm very grateful to you for making them. 🙂
Great video David, i do love the Montgomery Canal. Im personally looking forward to it reaching Welshpool, lovely town id love to get to by boat fingers crossed i can one day !
Absolutely
Great work being done by these people. Thanks for the report.
Always fascinating. Thanks for posting.
Philip Parker was marvelous. Well explained, sir.
His explanation was great, wasn’t it? 😀😀
Thank you for this restoration update. It is so long the project was first begun in the 70’s
Looks like it’s destined to be one of the prettiest canals once fully restored. Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👍😎
I’m glad to see they are protecting the existing wildlife as they continue to build the canal.
Excellent documentation! Thanks David! Lane and Larry in California
Many thanks!
I live not too far away from Arddleen and the big problem is the A483. It cuts over the canal in several places.
Thank you David, cracking video. - I’m certainly inclined to volunteer for a days work at a restoration project somewhere and videos like this I think help, showing that everyone can help…maybe you could do a video on something like that ie a days volunteering works?
I’ve seen a few comments recently about people unsubscribing because of adverts or sponsorship - I personally don’t mind the VERY short appropriate sponsorship segment at the start of your videos - it is to my mind much more preferential than CZcams randomly inserting video adverts (sometimes two or three times in videos). I generally let those play anyway and do something else as I understand they contribute to income for the creator, please correct me if I’m wrong.
I’m also aware how much time editing and adding stuff takes… keep up the good work.
Thank you. I'm quite happy to have a brief and very relevant sponsor at the start (and for reference anyone reading this, the sponsor has no say in the content of the video - I might change it in future to say "supported by" instead of sponsored). Thanks for not skipping the ads too, yes it does indeed help.
A project where pretty much everybody wins has to be somewhat of a unicorn, but here we are. Different viewpoints, aspirations and even countries uniting on this is brilliant. Congratulations to them...and to yourself. Three hundred, my stars, that was 'quick'.
So good to see the canals being so well looked after and restored. Thanks for showing us what's happening David. Great work.
Thanks 👍
I drove alongside parts of the Monty last weekend, on my way to Welshpool and Newtown. There are some really overgrown and weed infested parts, good luck to the volunteers
I hadn't considered going to wales as "international travel" but there we go!
As usual fantastic concise information and great knowledge and may I add,expert on cheese.
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Have been waiting for this for decades. Let's hope that connecting it up to Welshpool doesn't take as long.
I watch your videos from British Columbia and love every one of them. In 1990 we took a trip to England but never even knew about these canals. I’m now wondering how many more unused canals are yet to be restored.
Fabulous! Will be nice to see these canals connected again as I am sure people will enjoy them!
Always worth watching. Very interesting.
What a wonderful idyll it promises to be!
Thank you for the informative and enjoyable video David. Your professional background is clearly evident in the quality of your output. Jolly good.
hi David! Very exciting news about that canal restoration.
I do hope someday to go on a Narrowboating holiday.
David, I live in the United States and I am wondering how the canals fit into the world war two (WW2) activities of getting men and supplies across England and it's impact on the local people. Do you know if people used the canal boats to get out of London and live on the canals? I think sharing information like this would be interesting to many of us here in the USA.
Now that sounds like a wonderful research project!
I was just wondering the same thing.. if during the war , the canals provided another means of escape, if folks lived on them and, also, if it was a safer way to move supplies. Or did enemies target the canals as they did roads/bridges etc. Hmmm...
Oh boy John. The canals were still very important in WWII. Loads of books about it and the women who worked in really difficult and tough conditions to crew. Joan
During WW2 the canals were still functioning commercially and were an important way of moving bulk goods around the country. On many canals you'll still see WW2 pillbox bunkers guarding certain sections. The use of commercial waterways for leisure boating only really got going from the 1960's on. "Maiden's Trip" by Emma Smith is a good account of how some middle class girls dealt with the challenge of contributing to the war effort by crewing narrowboats because some boatmen were called up for the armed services.
Hope that horse drawn section can remain that way. Not many canals can boast that kind of heritage.
That was very impressive. I would love to see larger sections with horse drawn boats. What a great experience
Good show. I enjoyed watching this from Florida.
Thank you 😊
I love these restoration videos. So many great people coming together to make a project happen. I check Google Earth on a number of locations. It will be great to see an update when the water is again filling the canal.
Excellent documentary. Great explanation of the work done and the work still left to do. I always enjoy your videos.
Thank you very much!
As a 25 year Shropshire resident from Wales...🏴🤔👌 Brilliant to see David.... Learn to pronounce Llanymynach better when you video the next stretch being opened! 👍🤣🤣🤣 Seriously... You're a star for making these videos. Love them ...
I took advice from a Welsh speaker on the pronunciation 😔
@@CruisingTheCut There must be different dialects of Welsh. Good luck with that! 😁🙃😉
Thank you David for another look at the world of canals.
Thanks for this interesting video! Sustainable water supply is such a crucial part of reopening any abandoned canal, so it's excellent you mentioned this specifically, as many people seem to overlook this. My local society (Wey and Arun) have major problems around this aspect particularly.
Cheers, yes it can be a huge issue as you say 😞
Really interesting. Thank you.
Another awesome documentary-style vlog David. Re-opening this canal I believe, makes huge sense, everybody benefits, including nature. It will expand the canal network, provide a second access from England to Wales, and also I'm sure, will likely see at least one marina and other services added. A real win, win economically as well as increasing leisure and tourism.
Much appreciated
This is such cheering news. Not only is this a beautiful canal with lots of boating and leisure potential but it gives encouragement for other derelict stretches. Wonderful!
#outstanding as always.... Wonderful cinematography and subject David! Pure essence chap😎👌
You know that Jo and Michael are going to have to go and tick this off their list when it's fully open...Thanks for the video...fantastic to see the progress and hear about the plans.