Abandoned Canal: Maesbury to Welshpool 

Fascinating .... there's so much possibility there!

can't wait till the M1 looks like that!

Used to go swimming in the late 1960s in the old Montgomery Canal at Maesbury where my gran lived, 70's & 80's it filled up with junk & debris now partly restored (2023)

Very interesting Dan, it's good to know there are people out there trying their best to get it restored. It's going to take a few quid I should imagine. I hope you have a great Sunday. Su x

i wish florida has completed the cross florida barge canal. it would have been beautiful like this. save these treasures england see what you made by hand cherish grandfathers hard work

And to think they get so funny about listed buildings but they let real history like that slip away, great vid and document of it Dan .

Hi Dan, although it looks derelict often the most tricky bits are restoring locks, bridges and other structures. Also removing obstructions. Restoring canal bed can be one of the more easy tasks and involves scrub bashing and relining. All a question of money and time :)

Very interesting vid, I was talking about this bit of canal a few years ago, with a chap who lives in a bungalow on a good bit! he was telling me money was the only issue for restoring the link to Newtown, Wales they had done some rebuilding then (a few years ago) but stopped because they had run out of cash? , they were hoping to get some from the National Lottery??? but were totally interested in thew full restoration, it is not forgotten he said.

hey Dan that's you and CC both done a video with unused or partially used canals due to been overgrown. Amazing how mother nature reclaims.

I think that there IS some chance that at least part of the rest of the canal will be restored at some stage. The canal system is now a great earner for many and I feel that the demand can only increase. Never say never !

Cheers👍

Bridge 82A isn't an old wooden lift bridge. It's a new wooden lift bridge! I believe it was put in when that length of canal was restored around 2007.

Sad to see this ☹️☹️

This is very sad as i have been a fan of canals since I first new what they were, i did a school project when i was about 8 about the decline of the waterways! I got a gold star! Dont be so worried, in my town i have watched a whole PARK get levelled, foundations dug out and shops and cinemas appear in EIGHT MONTHS! IF the lottery heritage fund would donate maybe a million pounds, with a few gangs of ‘navvies’ and 10 excavators they could clear this whole reach in under a month.......TRUST ME.....😉 If they actually ‘unplugged’ one end and deliberately flood the section this allows the water to find its level. Then dam it again and the ground witll be lovely and soft and muddy, scoop it out with JCB,s and diggers and there we go! Im just looking at boats to live on having lived in a small caravan for 5 years! Then back into a house , now fancy the canal life and moorings are so hard to find so PLEASE LOTTERY FUND.........get some diggers in here......the WHOLE UK CANAL NETWORK used to be interlinked........lets see that happen again? 😃

Such a shame. We have an amazing canal route from Newtown that goes all the way to Oswestry I believe? Sadly much of it is no longer in use but it makes for some lovely long walks.

Perhaps someday in your lifetime, you will be able to "connect the dots" as the two watered areas of the canal get joined. At least you have documented the state of the canal today and some day someone will be able to compare this footage with the canal watered end to end, one might hope.

Delightful - if only all videos were of this interest, technical and editorial content (and not a drone shot in sight). I thought of doing the same trace idea tracking the evidence of the remains of damage due to sticks of bombs falling in a city.

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Dan, have you ever considered photography for your career or a hobby? Your quite good at it.

I don't see whether there was ever a stone or brick walls on these dry sections. Is it possible that the materials were robbed? I also don't understand how these canals are not part of a general drainage system that requires maintenance for agriculture and storm water runoff

I can't believe they let it get like that, something needs to change

Ah. What a shame. 😊

Sad to see, and in another 5/10 years, you'll not even know a canal was once there, which is a real shame. I suspect it'll cost a lot of money to get it back to its original state.

this WAS a canal

Welshpool in 10 years?

Sad to see; but all good things come to an end sometime (unfortunately)

last video I seen of yours, you gave up boat life, I thought you were gone, I followed you all the time up till then as no videos for a long time,, from what I hear from people I know in the uk, boaters pay good money to the canal and river trust for up keep and repairs and development, but they don't do anything at all but take your money and fine you if you don't pay, its left to people donating there time equipment, fuel to fix the rivers and canals, even reopening old filled it birthing forks, and the canals are headed to a thing of the past what's left, even the very unsafe locks lift bridges that if were here in Canada would be demolished and left do to legalities, my understanding from many, even were there is water in the canal they are not passable as they have not been dredged out in many years, they take your money and the top heads line there own pockets, its similar here with the high fees we have to pay for hunting and fishing licenses, they say it is to up keep the bush roads and trails, and to improve animal habitat, but the MNR don't spent one dime on any of it, all the licensing funds go into a general pot account that is use to do wasted full projects, hand over millions to the natives year after year, but the natives still cry they need more, but funds they were given never go to what they were demanding the funds for in the first place, you fly up to any remote reserve, and you find huge piles of new equipment still in there factory crates bull dozed in the bush, you go see a big school that local contractors from town flew up for all most a year to build that school and 2 years later its disrobed ripped a part.. and closed down, and there protesting for more of out tax dollars to repair it,, like wtf, yet the disabled and old age people live with next to nothing, and government gives no help to them

Most of it isn't as bad as it's looks, just needs digging out.

Who gave this a thumbs down, the canal itself, (yo I'm not rundown)

It's amazing - but in the TWO + years since you uploaded this - you STILL haven't explained what ? THE means in "join" (on the Mont-go-mery) [quote] ... before restoration takes place? The join me on the Montgomery! ... [unquote] The JOIN "you" ?

My question is. Why was it left to become unusable? Our President is going to build a wall, maybe he can fix this as well.