3.9 Cannock Extension Canal exploration, part two 

Absolutely brilliant information & fantastic to see where places were ❤

Another glimpse into canal history- excellent Andy

Dear Andy - I'm slowly working my way through your BCN videos. They're superb and I'm enjoying every one. Although I have to keep referring to Richard Dean's map of the Birmingham Canals to find out where you are. Thank you again for bringing this fascinating subject to life about a part of our country I knew very little about. I'm in awe of your formidable knowledge. Best Wishes - Bobbie - St Albans

Fantastic video Andy our factory car park is built over parts of the Hednesford basin .Being a local Wyrley lad I can just about remember the canal from Norton to Hednesford Thankyou for all your hard work to bring this back to life

Thank you for all your efforts in bringing these fascinating bits of history to us. I will indeed be watching this episode again as I have done with all your previous videos. There or four times in some cases.

Thank You Andy .This was a most enjoyable Video .The pictures are first class . How time has changed this area of the midlands 👍😀

Absolutely superb indeed .. how many questions you have answered for me in this video is truly unbelievable ive lost count tbh .. Thank you very much for this video indeed .. now onto viewing the rest of them keep up the great work Andy

My Uncle Frank and Aunty Alice used to live in Cottage 219 in the sixties.I have photos of our family visiting and walking up the empty canal, climbing up the derelict bridges and playing in the sunken barges . I particularly remember the railway signal box which was just past the two cottages it was such an exiting place to visit.

Wouldn't it be great to have a time machine, but you've got close Andy, great video.

Fantastic video Andy, I was standing in the kitchen making a cuppa as the notification popped up on my iPad, what a treat!, a great piece of work for posterity (as are all your videos), thoroughly enjoyed it, well done 👏🏻🙂👍🏻

Great video

Loving these series!... I'm always expecting a farmer/landowner to shout in the background "get off my land!"😄 ...... so good to see the new ladscape compared to the old photos, brilliant way to learn the history behind these old canal routes. Thankyou

I live in Florida and I find the history of your canals fascinating. Your research on the lost canals is stellar. Thank you!

Brilliant work sir.thank u.

Well... you’ve outdone yourself with this episode Andy. What an absolutely STUNNING effort, that montage of pictures and maps is of the very highest quality and so intellectually put together in order that the viewer can make the logical steps necessary to make the journey with you. It must have taken hours to complete and I thank you for it. I love all your work but this has to be the finest episode yet. Well done 👍🏻

Loving your work, professional approach and addition of information for many of my own walks. Topical for myself as I live in Norton C on these last few videos. Ironic to see the Rantons truck on the last few minutes of of the video, as Rantons is the builders yard sitting on top of the Norton Basin, Conduit Road.

Be tempted to put a narrowboat in the back garden if it were my house...Great video.

Fantastic Andy I grew up here and remember much of it but learned a lot from you

Hi Andy, thanks so much for producing this. I became fascinated by the Cannock Extension four or five years back after reading about your explorations on your website. I've lived in the area most of my life but until then knew very little of the waterway and it's history. I do recall cycling around the canal basin at Hednesford as a kid and the scary crossing of the remains of Hemlock bridge just before it was all flattened and developed in the early 80s. I wish I'd spent more time down there now and taken a camera! I'm hoping one day to have time to spend walking the route on foot, I often gaze with nerdy fascination at the embankment next to the Norton canes services access road as I'm motoring in for a Costa on the way to another sales appointment, wishing I could clamber up and see if there's any visible remains. Looking forward to the Rumer Hill episode. Cheers, John.

Just watched this again for the umpteenth time and still amazed by it. I also followed the route using an old map from the 1880's. Its great to see this but also a little sad. I was only 10 when all this canal was wiped out (north of the A5). I do wonder when the bridge at Hawks Green was removed? Did it carry traffic over what was Hawks Green Lane? All in all another excellent video. Thanks Andy.

Another enjoyable vlog, I've driven up the road from Churchbridge to Hednesford hundreds of times but never knew the canal was underneath.

There are some remains, or should I say we're to leacroft Bridge. When they were exploratory drilling for the widening of the road in front of the new retail park, they must have removed some of the infil and there were remains of the curved walls to the bridge. They were covered over again I believe but they are there and constructed out of brick. Hopefully this is of use to you 😁

Love the video...

Remember Parkes Bridge and The Overflow ( Weir ) down into the Blubell Wood and Brindleys Brook.

Before the house was built on badger bridge all that brick work was visible on both sides nearly all the way back to common bridge and that was within the last 25years till the surrounding houses went up. We used to camp out under common bridge after it was all filled in.

These videos are great. I live at Aberdeen House on Walsall Road which is on the corner of Lock Keepers Close in Norton Canes. This house was one of 2 that stood by the old canal (our house was built in 1913 and was a boat builders house at one point). Can you possibly point me in the direction of any photos or video that might exist of our house?

Great video Andy.👍🏾 When I used to live in Cannock I remember walking up along the dual carriageway up towards the landfill and seeing reeds and thinking that it must of been a canal there at some point and when you look on Google maps it shows a short section of water. Can't wait for the next video mate👍🏾

i never got the chance to try and walk this section across the fields. I used to ike my little walks on a sunday down the Cannock Extention you can see my slideshow on my other channel called Dazzies Travells or the old name BlackCountryStalker bothnames still work on the seach on youtube.

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Brilliant video Andy! Will you ever come back to North Walsham?

cast my first float by badger bridge 60 years ago