The man, woman and kids are part of my family. The 2 boats were used in the movie The Bargee with Harry H Corbett. This was filmed during the filming of that movie. They used to go into the cabins during filming although there were some scenes where my cousins husband would be dressed up as Ronnie Barker to steer into the locks as Ronnie could not do it.
I love this film, one of my favourites, i recognize some of the sites in this film, including 3 bridges in southall, i used to live near there,had many fun times on the grand union canal 😊😊
I cant believe it !!... i was just thinking how a particular stretch looked like a section used in the bargee which i watched only a few months ago...great 👍
That period of filming lent everything a beauty of tone and colour - regardless of the prevailing light conditions and weather. It captured or created an overall harmony of visual elements that seem to be more or less absent from modern film recording.
Absolutely fantastic 👍🏻 I was born in Davyhulme Manchester in 1957 and my late Dad worked at Massey Ferguson tractor parts in Trafford Park. It was fantastic watching this video as it brought many childhood memories back for me as I played all over Trafford Park watching all the big ships coming and going and riding on the goods trains round the park lol 😆 Thanks Stevie.
This is so interesting. When I was little, me and my dad had gone cycling and we managed to get someone who owns a boat. I had a great opportunity to get on a lockboat and travel down the canal with my dad following behind. It was amazing.
"Water Valiant", the first boat I ever hired for a holiday on the Oxford canal, unusual in having wheel steering in a centre well, very much less practical than a tiller for sure. That would be 1965 I think. Super film, thanks!
I think we have realised how special they are. It's going to be impossible to reclaim all of them but restoration continues apace. The tricky bit is that wonderful as it is that people come to see and use them, they are are 200-250 years old, and need careful managing or the very success will damage them.
Do we love these old vids because we love old England? Noticed he said in '63 "our overcrowded roads" just before they shut many railway lines and made a bad situation worse. Don't you just love politicians.
The fact that they've just barely managed to survive is more to do with the British attachment to old things than to a grand plan, I enjoy the canals and rivers from afar but I admire the people who have saved them and indever to reclaim those lost ones !
There are many dedicated RU-vid channels for longboats, a fascinating and fairly tranquil lifestyle today. When I moved to The Netherlands I was surprised to find so many people living on those types of boats. I'd be living in one today if my wife didn't have seasickness. England, like America, has so much potential, it's obvious that sabotage is the reason for stagnation in the West.
To boil it all down to a simple sentence: the West suffers from the same problem as everywhere else, namely; selfish rich people who see it as their God-given right to get richer at the expense of everyone else.
Delivered to Rose's Lime Juice, Hemel Hempstead. Delivered direct to their own factory wharf until 1967. This site, besude Two Waters Road, is now occupied by B&Q.
@@paulineclarke1190 Three pairs were still engaged on the lime juice run up until 1973 to my knowledge. Arcas/Actis, Tadworth/Bakewell and Stamford/Bude if I remember right.
I always wondered how you clean your boats safely. I see the women in this film dropping their mops overboard and washing the roof with canal water. Is this still standard practice??
Once again the claim that the Bridgewater was the first industrial age canal when it was the St Helens/Sankey canal that was actually the inspiration for the Bridgewater.
The murdering was earlier than that - when the waterways were nationalised along with the railways after the war and didn't want the upkeep. It was the winter of 62-63 that finished it, the boats couldn't move, so of course the freight moved to the roads, and didn't come back...
1.13 Arthur Owen skipper of flat Pickmere lived in Shipley York's Nick name legee . I was mate with Arthur in duckers, Alan Holden and ex Leeds and Liverpool tug Anna
Almost 2025...and STILL mud huts and wichcraft !!.... nothing will EVER change in black run countries.....one step from stone age....still...we keep being told, they 'DONT need anymore white saviours'.....so...let 'em get on with it 👍
6:25 Most guard dogs have more freedom of movement that this poor LEASHED boy. I suddenly remembered that there is still a submission pending at the European Court of Human Rights to allow British teachers to beat their students.
Try teaching in one of our failing, hellish secondary schools where everyone's a loser. As my old deputy head used to say "Pontificating on the side-lines. Get stuck into the chalk face".
How wonderful britain was then, full of happy hard working indigenous british folk all enjoying theyre way of life, hard work, holidaying, what a life the children and animals had.....all well before illegal immigration destroyed our once beautiful country 😖😪
