The Port of Chester & the River Dee basin and lock

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200 years ago, the historic City of Chester boasted a flourishing port with shipping navigating the River Dee, en-route from and to The Irish Sea. Today there is very little evidence to show that it ever existed. Join me as I explore just wait remains of it and the short but vital stretch of canal linking it to The nearby Shropshire Union Canal.

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@gerryclarke9795 4 месяца назад

Lovely video enjoyed the views and the history. Regards from Ireland!

@PASTFINDERexploring 4 месяца назад

Thank you Gerry. Glad you enjoyed it.

@nickcaunt1769 5 месяцев назад

Thanks.Great research and presentation.

@mikeg3293 9 месяцев назад

What a fabulous interesting Video of a place I’ve past so many times. I enjoyed it that much I was late for an appointment! Thank you for all your efforts, very much appreciated.

@PASTFINDERexploring 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching. So glad ypu enjoyed it. Hope you didn't get into trouble re your late appointment.

@mikehallows6992 Год назад

Thanks for this, I was a member of Chester Sea Cadets (HMS Deva) in the mid 70's Amazing what has changed and what has not. It's a pity you couldn't get inside that old Cadet building you would have found it amazingly interesting. Thanks again for this.

@tangobob0 Год назад

On you question of use of The Dee Link. I blieve that Bithels used it until the 70s. They got the boats across the wier on a high spring tide brought them up the Dee Link and over wintered them at the top basin.

@PASTFINDERexploring Год назад

Thank you. Definitely plausible as the high spring tides make that feasible even today. I hear there are rumours that the Dee lock is to be restored for use once more.

@Deliquescentinsight 2 года назад

I grew up around the Chester area, but have not been back for over 20 years, it is nice to see some of the more detailed points.

@seanconnolly7386 3 месяца назад

I remember the bridge next to the "sluce house " Sealand Road. even up to the 80s both sides were the same it was a bit narrow for 2 hgvs .you might want to have a look behind halfords down the road this was originally stone bridge before being replaced and was the original rd to blacon.

@PASTFINDERexploring 3 месяца назад

Hi Sean thank you. Going to Halfords tomorrow, I'll take a look

@MrWoofie62 3 года назад

Brilliant. When I was a nipper on school holidays (the early 70s) I used to fish all along the canal and also the Dee at the back of Crane Bank Garage! The mechanics would often pop over for a quick chat on their lunch break and would let me refill my Thermos Flask with Tea if I was there for a long fishing session...Everywhere has changed so much. Still great to see though. Thank you.

@PASTFINDERexploring 3 года назад

Hi Wolfie. Lovely story, happy to bring back good memories.

@KevinRogers-vn7og 5 месяцев назад

Funny you should say that! So did I. In the basin opposite and next to Telfords (pre-pub), in the boatyard, on the small section next to Whipcord Lane, in the basin at South View, and on the Cop where the canal comes in. I caught many flatties and eels off crane Wharf. We probably bumped into each other back then. A lot of new building around there now - I liked it when there were those little wild, neglected areas. All the best.

@ianstewartbrown5308 Год назад

Thank you for a very informative video of a part of the city that I have never explored

@PASTFINDERexploring Год назад

Thanks Ian. It's an area which have been largely redeveloped leaving few clues as to it's past. Great fun finding them though.

@sailingschooners8668 2 года назад

I lived here mid late 60s before moving to London...a great City is Chester...

@richardtaylor8312 8 месяцев назад

Its interesting to note that Thomas Telford was commissioned by Businessmen and Farmers in Ellesmere Shropshire, to build a canal from Ellesmere to the nearest point of the sea. He did that and reached the Mersey basin, one of the busiest ports in the world at that time, he called what is now referred to as “The Boat Museum” Ellesmere’s Port-the Port of Ellesmere in Shropshire.

@toolmaker9411 Год назад

Thank you. Well researched and well presented.

@PASTFINDERexploring Год назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

@BornAcorn 8 дней назад

I believe the originally planned Ellesmere canal from Pontcysyllte Aqueduct via Wrexham would have emerged on the opposite bank of the Dee - which would have given the Dee branch more of a purpose should it have survived.

@PASTFINDERexploring 2 дня назад

@@BornAcorn I didn't know that, thank you

@robertjones-eb4xo 2 года назад

Excellent Docu. Iv lived in the New Crane st area 1950s The picture of the Crane has a Cart with Lowes Silversmiths on the side, it's STILL a shop in the Rows !

@PASTFINDERexploring 2 года назад

Thanks Robert. I bet New Crane Street looked very different in those days. I didn't know that the barge advertisers still existed. The painting was made in the 1990's by Gordon Frickers, so there was an obvious attention to local detail.

@robertjones-eb4xo 2 года назад

@@PASTFINDERexploring Hello, Has not changed THAT much , around the old Crane Bank, sure the developers would love to put more Flats there as they are elsewhere as you know. Iv just Tx my Brother as he used to work as a Silversmith at Lowes , the shop has not changed a bit, marvellous .

@PASTFINDERexploring 2 года назад

@@robertjones-eb4xo Great stuff, superb links to the past

@geoffbrassington9702 8 дней назад

That was brilliant very informative. Shame the river banks are so overgrown and unmaintained all the way from there up to the band stand it’s looks a mess and could be so look so much smarter.

@PASTFINDERexploring 8 дней назад

Hi Geoff, thank you for watching. Alas the local council & those responsible for keeping the river clean and tidy aren't really that interested.

@peterwright617 Год назад

Nice video, and again an area I didn't know much about. I can't find anything about kop being a Saxon word but it is South African and was brought back to the UK following the Boer War. I'm sure you know that side of the story. Thanks.

@PASTFINDERexploring Год назад

Hi Peter, thank you for watching and your kind comments. I thought the same until I carried out a bit of research. This particular earthwork pre dates South Africa by a considerable time scale.

@peterwright617 Год назад

@@PASTFINDERexploring Further research has shown me that Copp is from Saxon origin and means hill! Great work. Thanks again for the vid.

@barry5787 Год назад

An area where a lot of Hollyoaks was filmed

@goldieandblackie 6 месяцев назад

That rubbish

@cestriankiwi Год назад

The sluice house was in the 1960's home of the Potato Marketing board and yes the bridge did have a coresponding side narrowing the road to a single lane.

@PASTFINDERexploring Год назад

Thanks Hugh, I assumed the lack of opposite bridge parapet was something along those lines.