This and my other videos can be found here… ru-vid.com/show-UCq0VIzNQL_1DcHradQ59_tg Part 2 can be located here... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pz6iTgR7hP0.html This is the Nutbrook Canal. Which used to be a significant part of industrial heritage….
Hi, I've looked on your video with great interest. As a born and bred Ilson lad I've got many memories of this canal from my youth and beyond. Firstly my Dad was a fisherman and he taught myself. This canal was the first place i ever cast a rod. All my family from years back worked at Stanton , it was a bad day when it closed but inevitable. Two of the reservoirs coming up from Quarry Hill Road we knew as Roughs and a second one known as The Buity Spot were there was picnicking, walks and even row boats you could hire. Sunday afternoons it was packed. Anyway I've gone on a bit but I have much more to remember. Thanks it took me back a bit.
A fascinating video. It's almost impossible now to envisage how much infrastructure existed at one time in this area, from canals, railways, mines and other works. But as you say, often, the clues are there!
Many thanks. As you say, as you walk through this countryside, you get no idea at all about the crowds, smoke, industry which once blanketed the area. I hope to keep doing this, alas I really enjoy it.
I remember reading one of the plans for the Stanton site the essentially the canal was only filled in and would be relatively easy to reinstate and even proposed a marina.
The first video of yours that I have watched. After watching it may add my thoughts. I found it interesting and confusing all that the same time. Brought up here and knowing 'my way round', I did find it slightly disjointed. The only time we saw the 'route' was from the map at the beginning, followed by various photos. As mentioned in the video some of the photos were of places that were difficult to find, and as they appeared, in places, to be random it was difficult for the viewer to know where these places where located, or one could find them on the route. I think perhaps that there were too many photos in quick succession that it became difficult to follow. A good example was the lock at kirk hallam pond. We were shown the bench etc and the large 'out of place stones' now explained, but there was another lock in the same vicinity, trying to keep up and be able to find that one was beyond me. Sorry. Hope this review helps. Thanks.
Hi pgc378. and thank you for taking the time to comment on my video. I'm glad that you enjoyed it and found it interesting. although less so that you found it confusing. The whole overall route of the canal was shown at the start in order to show people the entire plan of the canal. That done, (And remembering that I aim to tell a story in about 10 minutes. so time and Image space is limited), I continued along the canal telling the story, and setting the scene as I went. I'm sorry that you found it "Disjointed". I did do my best to continue along the "tow Path" in a theoretically "Obvious manner". although ,especially as you progress to the north, this becomes ever more difficult. after all a five minute section where there is nothing really of note, is not going to be of interest to anyone. As such it may be brushed lightly over, or even omitted entirely. the other places were included in order of encountering from south to north. and if one so desired, one could follow the "Tow Path" and encounter these places in the same order in which they appeared in the video. As mentioned, the over view of the route was included at the beginning to put the whole video in context. this is intended primarily as entertainment. If the viewer gains information or education from this, then I am all too happy. but it is not intended as a walking guide. Although should anyone use it successfully for this purpose then I am "Dead Chuffed" and would love to here more. The "too many Photos, in quick succession" comment, is one which has been alluded to previously, and in recent videos I have tried to curb my enthusiasm in this direction (I am self taught and It is a relatively steep learning curve). I am trying to do better. I always read, and try to reply to any and all comments, and I hope that this is acceptable. My thanks to you for taking the time to make this comment. it is all "Grist to the Mill".
Liked your Codnor Park video but this one, I am afraid, was totally ruined by the awful inappropriate background music which clashed with your commentary. But there we go. Sorry.
