Hi thanks for this Retired and live in Portugal and my friends wife next door was brought up on one of these she is now 76 and this brings back a lot of memories for her once again thank you
Hope the guys who sell fuel. Charcoal. And gas. Watch this video. And how to cover and protect the goods last winter bought charcoal always wet. Lovely video keep cruising
Modern narrowboat youtubers will have a fit at this. Boat in gear against the top gates, whipping the paddles up quickly, dropping paddles without a windlass...done properly!
All done highly efficiently with no wasted effort and they didn't abuse the equipment. Notice how he dropped the paddle but slowed it down before it hit the bottom.
its so weird how it looks if you compare then to now . but you look at the washing on the line not far away is the smoke coming out the chimney how do you keep clothes clean. a great piece of our history
Flip it took 4 _hours_ to load two boats with maybe 50 tonnes? Never mind the speed the boats travel at that must have been a significant bottleneck at a wharf.
From what I've read, that was a significant factor in the final decline of narrowboat transport. Actual speed of transit isn't such a big deal if you've got a continuous stream of boats moving. Also of course so much of the traffic was coal.
Fascinating bit of canal history. I wonder if the narrator is correct in saying that they didn't have to work on Sundays. I suspect that the competition from the railways by then probably meant the boatmen had little choice if they were to earn a living wage.
He said no need to work IF THEY DONT WANT TO....until the advent of the Milton friedmanesque "money is GOD and should never be refused" political dogma imposed on us by m thatcher, Sunday was, by consensual agreement a special day (sabbath as far as religious Christians were concerned) where most shops apart from newsagents etc, closed and any workers who DID work were able to demand time and a half (overtime rate of pay) nowadays people don't have the option..... "by then" the competition was coming from the new network of motorways, and the soon-to-arrive containerisation which put thousands of dockers on the scrap heap
Most of my early years where spent in & out of Bulls Bridge with my Grandparents. My Godparents where the first to train the idle women (Ely Gayford also from out of Bulls Bridge
8:14 I absolutely love this clip. It disappeared from RU-vid for a while and now it's back. Is there more to it? I thought it was almost 30 minutes long. I bought British Transport Films on DVD and I would certainly buy this one as well
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-POO4lrTclNY.html
