Monmouth & Brecon Canal - Brecon to Talybont
Narrowboat Trip from Brecon to Talybont-on-Usk in about 15min
Canal boat holiday on the Mon & Brec canal in the beautiful Brecon Beacons in Wales
A week’s holiday on the Beacon Park Boats narrowboat Hobby on the Monmouth and Brecon Canal in Wales (unedited)
Girls Just want to have fun !! on the Monmouth and Brecon canal, Wales
Girls having fun on the Monmouth and Brecon Canal, our adventures on the Monmouth and Brecon canal, enjoy the most beautiful Canal in Britain, on this episode we are going up the five locks, with fantastic views and breathtaking countryside
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Brecon Canal 2002
This is my very first slide show created in movie maker and my first upload to you tube. I found these images on a old drive and thought i would do something with them. They are in walk order, from Brecon Canal Basin. Hope you enjoy viewing...
Brecon Basin | Wales, Glaswetry - Part 2
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Old Robbie and the Brecon to Monmouth Canal
My father, Major Bob Smith, tells the story of Old Robbie who inspired one of the many stories in the Tommy and Billy collection he wrote for my children and their cousin when they were little. Standing outside Robbie's house in Llangynidr just before it was sold in 2012, he describes the magical quality that this animal healer held for the local children who came to watch him tend to injured wildlife. My father's story has been selected to be part of the heritage project celebrating the 200th anniversary of the building of this part of the Brecon canal.
Monmouthshire and Brecon canal walk
Llanfoist Wharf to Pontymoile Basin 9/8/16
Sup Monmouth Brecon Canal Mini Adventure
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Narrowboat passing through Whitehouse Tunnel on the Llangollen Canal
UK canal boat holidays. We love going on canal boat holidays on the English canals, and the Welsh canals too! In 2016 we hired a narrowboat from Anglo-Welsh (from their Trevor Basin base). Here is a film of us on a canal boat holiday cruising through Whitehouse Tunnel on the Llangollen Canal. If you have ever wondered what to do on a canal boat holiday, this video should give you a taste of the main reason for taking a UK canal boat holiday - slow down, chill out, enjoy the peace and the scenery!
Tavistock Canal 2005.
A Walk along the Tavistock Canal 2005
Teigngrace stover canal ,walk through the past ....
Part of templer way heritage trail,Newton Abbot ,Devon ,U.K
The canal was built at a time when the ball clay industry was expanding, but transport of the bulky product was difficult. James Templer saw this as an opportunity, and began to construct the canal at his own expense in January 1790. He planned to reach Bovey Tracey, passing through Jewsbridge, near Heathfield en route, and to construct a branch to Chudleigh. Having invested over £1,000 in the project, he sought an Act of Parliament which would allow him to raise more capital, but although the Act was passed on 11 June 1792, he did not invoke its powers, as the canal had already reached Ventiford, Teigngrace and he did not extend it further.
As built, the canal was 1.7 miles (2.7 km) long and included five locks. It was supplied with water from three feeders, one from Ventiford Brook, a stream which also supplies Stover Lake and one from the River Bovey at Jewsbridge, both of which fed the top pound, and one from the River Teign at Fishwick, which entered the canal just below lock 4. The exit from the canal was on to the tidal Whitelake channel, and from there to the River Teign and the docks. The first three locks did not originally have side walls, but used earth banks instead, which were replaced with timber or brick walls in due course.The Graving Dock lock was only 56 ft (17m) long, and so could take a single barge, but all the others were long enough to take two barges end to end. The first Jetty Marsh lock was much bigger, at 215 ft long and 45 ft wide (65m by 13.7m), but carries the inscription Duke of Somerset, 1841, and so it would appear that it was reconstructed as a basin, so that barges could wait in it for the tide.The Graving Dock lock is probably unique in the United Kingdom, in that it was reconstructed with a dock at its side, which could be used as a dry dock when the lock was empty. Both Jetty Marsh lock and Graving Dock lock are currently Grade 2 listed.
Having invested most of his capital in the project, James Templer was rewarded by the success of the canal. A major contract with Josiah Wedgwood and Sons was re-established in 1798. Wedgwood remained the major recipient of the ball clay until 1815, after which trade was established with other pottery manufacturers and other ports.
Opening on 16 September 1820, the Haytor Granite Tramway was built to connect George Templer's granite quarries at Haytor Rocks to the canal basin at Ventiford. For the next 40 years, the traffic in granite supplemented the ball clay trade. The canal was sold in 1829 by George Templer, along with the Stover estate and the quarries and tramway, to the 11th Duke of Somerset. When plans to build the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway were proposed, the 12th Duke of Somerset, who by then had inherited the Stover estate, sought to sell both the canal and the trackbed of the derelict Granite Tramway to the fledgling railway company.It was duly sold for £8,000 on 4 June 1862, by which time the section above Teignbridge was effectively redundant, and so the railway company was not required to maintain it.However, the section up to Graving Dock lock was retained, so that users of the canal could still repair their barges, and it was at this point that the new dock was constructed which gave the Graving Dock lock its name. The canal was almost immediately leased to Watts, Blake and Co., a company who sank clay-pits.
The canal passed into the ownership of the Great Western Railway in 1877, but continued to be leased to Watts, Blake and Co., who paid a fixed price for its use, and were also required to maintain it. Traffic dwindled and finally ceased in 1937, but Watts, Blake and Company's latest 14-year lease did not end until 1942, and so it was not formally abandoned until March 1943.It remained in water until 1951, when one of the banks was breached, flooding a clay pit.
Drop shotting for PERCH, mon & brecon canal UK
another short video of me drop shooting for perch along the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal :)
Volunteers restoring the Monmouthshire to Brecon canal
Volunteers working on the canal as part of a three year project. Visit torfaen.gov.uk to find out more
Lapal Canal part 1
The Lapal Canal ran from Halesowen to Selly oak to meet the Birmingham and Worcester canal. The Lapal Tunnel (old spelling Lappal Tunnel) is a disused 3,795 yard long canal tunnel on the five mile dry section of the Dudley No. 2 Canal in the West Midlands. closed due to a tunnel collapse in 1917. The Lapal Canal Trust is concerned with restoring the lost canal to make it navigable up to the tunnel from both the Halesowen and Selly Oak ends
part 2
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Lapal Canal Restoration Starts Midlands Today ( news reports )
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No 2 DUDLEY CANAL AND LAPAL CANAL PART 3
I lost canal across the fields at the back of the black horse. i think there is an area that appears slightly flatter than the surrounding area past the hedgerow at the back of the black horse. i think this was the canal. or it's the stream/ brook
THE MONMOUTHSHIRE AND BRECON CANAL
The South Wales Valleys underwent a dramatic transformation at the end of the 18th century to become one of the hotbeds of the Industrial Revolution. The reason was simple: in no other part of Britain could wood, coal, iron ore and limestone be found in such profusion in proximity to one another. They were the four essential components for the creation of iron, and a new iron age was born. To transport the iron to the sea, in June 1792 the Monmouthshire Canal Company obtained parliamentary consent for a canal. In the same year the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal Company announced plans to build its own canal. The two projects were amalgamated to become what is known as the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal. This canal, from the Brecon Beacons Mountain Range down to the Bristol Channel, is one of the immense engineering feats of the early 19th century. It can still be followed through some of the most spectacular scenery in the country from its basin in Brecon all the way to Newport. A large part of the canal is still navigable and with its partners, Monmouthshire County Council, Newport and Torfaen County Borough Councils, British Waterways is currently putting into operation exciting plans to open the remainder of this special waterway from Five Locks, Cwmbran to Newport.
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Walking the Canals of North West England
Exploring some beautiful stretches of the Canals surrounding Manchester. These take in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Macclesfield Canal and the Peak Forest Canal. My first ever attempt at a slide show with music, so apologies if it's a little basic!
Working A Canal Lock
How to work a British canal lock for a narrowboat.
When you've finished, all sluice paddles should be down (closed) and both gates closed. Watch out for the sill (cill) on the upstream gate - you don't want to get your stern hung up on it
This wasn't intended to be a complete training video, just a record of the holiday - and working the locks is all part if the fun
Man over board....... Holiday in Wales on Brecon Park Boats
What's up people, just a little few clips put together of our Narrow boat holiday in Wales with Brecon Park Boats. Such a great time with the family.
Anything can be achieved when you but your heart into it, and even at my age of 38 lol.
I want to represent the middle age man and say YES things can still be done.
CHASE YOUR DREAMS......
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Practical training on the Mon & Brec Canal
A film by the heritage team at Canal & River Trust on delivering Heritage Competence Training to our contract partners Kier in Brecon. Followed by lime repointing at Watton Kilns, Grade II listed on the Mon & Brec Canal.
A trip down the islington tunnel
I have taken out about 10 minutes of complete darkness so this is like the going in...and the coming out... and a bit in the middle