Bimble: A Sankey Bimble 

My elderly father was born in Warrington during the War. He was brought up there, and married there before migrating with wife and kids to Australia in the 1980's. He's on his final legs now, bed ridden with dementia, and hardly able to see or hear anymore. I hold my phone up to his ear, and play your marvelous stories for him. I sense he can follow along and it takes him back to happier times when he was a younger able man enjoying Warrington in simpler times. We appreciate you taking the time to create and share these stories near and far, delivered in a familiar and comforting accent. To many of us, they mean more than you know. Thank you so much!

I’m amazed at the great tail network around Warrington, and throughout the UK. Lots of old canal paths and defunct rail lines. Great bits of history!

Welcome back Mr Bimble

Yay! The resident Bimbler returns.

Nice to have you back Keiron. There is a Bewsey New Hall hidden in the woods . Right near Gullivers World . Keep on Bimbling .

Good to have you back Kieran, and that was quite a long bimble as well! Full of your usual lesser known facts and places, as enjoyable as ever. :-) (Al Kennett)

Hi Kieran. Love your videos. Welcome to my neck of the woods. Re your music: Nip down to The Sloop and try to sort out a gig there.....Maybe if i see you in there i'll buy you TWO pints.

OMG, I pass by your back gate now and then on my bimbles down Sankey Valley on my Cyrusher fat tyre lekky bike from Golborne. And you passed top of my road in your Pennington Flash 'Bonk' video...🥰🥰🥰

Great to see you back. 😊

brilliant, thank you

Only just found your channel, love that music.

Great V,log Kieron. Who knew Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed at Bewsey Old Hall? No wonder it,s haunted with the murder,s their.

Im from newton great work very informative about the canal

Nice area .

Long time no see Kieran ,great to have you back, you have been missed i used to live in Latchford Wa4 ex neighbour possibly 😀. also there is a moated farm in Frodsham so you will have to go back to my home town and find it 😊😊😊

Very interesting video, Thanks for making it.. As you love a church. i visited an interesting one in Gresford near Wrexham last week. A very grand one, in a small village. Even the vicar couldn't tell me why such a place was built. One day you need to visit it👍

Thanks again Kieran. Another excellent informative and humerous show. (False teethe for a wedding gift?😅)

Barrow Hall Lane is in Sankey which you were on. All used to be fields around there. I think near Bewsey Old Hall is a square piece of grass land with a small moat around it. No water but you can see the impression.

Well as a longford lad kieran the sankey canal had to be where my magnet journey had to begin , loved this bimble mate, marvelous 👌👍

Good bimble mate talking about rocksavage power station theres a pill box by the security gates when you go down the long path to your left

Glad to see you again. Every time you came upon a dog in the speeded up bit, I held my breath 😂. I kept thinking a dog would walk in front and you'd go over the handlebars. I do miss cycling, and thankyou for taking me on such lovely sightseeing trips ❤.

Hooray you're back!!

Brill a new Bimble, just think of you had have ran with the church I wonder who would be recording in it now. And you could have built a moat around it !

Ah, I thought it was you. I'd watched one of your other videos just a couple of hours earlier and then rode past you as you were filming at the dry dock. Next time I'll say hello. ☺

Another bimble near my home

There's a rather excellent moated farmhouse just off the A580 East Lancs rd at Astley, as it passes over the Bridgewater Canal. A better example would be difficult to find I think?

Hi nice video, thanks for highlighting the Sankey Canal! You finished up at Winwick Quay which was the repair dry dock & maintenance workshop for the canal. The M62 runs past it. You were stood in Hulme Lock, the remains of the lock keeper's cottage are in the undergrowth. Sankey Canal Restoration Society is planning to do some maintenance shortly. The canal closed upstream of Earlestown in 1931 (but remained in water), sugar traffic to Earlestown stopped in 1959 and the canal formally closed in 1963. Warrington Borough Council enthusiastically filled in the canal from Newton Brook to Bewsey in the 1970s-80s.

Ahhhh, normality resumes! Welcome back Kieron 🫡

Even though they have built many thousands of new houses all around Warrington you can still travel all across from Penketh to Great Sankey on pretty rural roads with plenty of green spaces, and Great Sankey was were you went into Burtonwood and the old American airbase, rumour is that they wanted to turn the airbase into Manchester airport after the war! but due to subsidence from all the mining in the area, seems that a seam that ran from Bold Colliery ran under the runway at Burtonwood and had caused a drop in the runway! so instead it was built at Ringway. in the 1960s we used to go and watch the WB-29 then WB-50D Superfortress taking off, they were used to collect weather data for the US forces. I think their is still a part of the original runway at the side of the M62.

Welcome back!

Great to have you back Kieran. 👍🏼

I lived on Saxon Park when the church was a make shift studio! Remember it well!

Good to see you again mate on your trusty steed. Boss Bimble as always. Top info!!

Please keep up with the adventures very enjoyable.

Good idea them mottes keep the neighbours a bay

A new house a new bike your doing great 😂❤

Kieran, did you see the old ship inn on the notice board where gordon sheds is, I was looking at it last week never knew it was ever there.

we walked past you when you were filming the church wife told me shout hello but i didnt want to distract you from filming.

Could you not sound proof your loft 😂😂😂😂

At last! Suffering from bimble cravings- great to see you mate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Interesting as always. Thanks. I cycle from Newton-le-Willows to the Mersey but get lost every time! Wish they had map of the canal .I wish I had a map of th canal route/Sankey valley .

Doesnt get more local than that !! Any closer and you could have popped in for a brew 😁. Good to jave Bimbles back