Feb 2020
The following links will take to you to two videos exploring the Hatherton Branch Canal.
The first follows the historic route before it was abandoned in the 1950's:
And the second explores the planned route of the restored canal:
Saturday, 22 February 2020
Hatherton Branch Canal
Hatherton Branch Canal (aka The Churchbridge Branch)
Feb 2020
The following links will take to you to two videos exploring the Hatherton Branch Canal.
The first follows the historic route before it was abandoned in the 1950's:
And the second explores the planned route of the restored canal:
Feb 2020
The following links will take to you to two videos exploring the Hatherton Branch Canal.
The first follows the historic route before it was abandoned in the 1950's:
And the second explores the planned route of the restored canal:
Saturday, 15 February 2020
Exploring the Cannock Extension Canal
Cannock Extension Canal rediscovered
Feb 2020
I published three YouTube videos on the long lost Cannock Extension Canal last month, collating loads of old photos I have found into the sequence in which they would have been encountered had you traveled the canal 60 years ago.
This is an obscure lost canal sitting out on the extreme northern edge of the BCN, and ne which was totally lost to opencast coal mining in the 1960's.
Feb 2020
I published three YouTube videos on the long lost Cannock Extension Canal last month, collating loads of old photos I have found into the sequence in which they would have been encountered had you traveled the canal 60 years ago.
This is an obscure lost canal sitting out on the extreme northern edge of the BCN, and ne which was totally lost to opencast coal mining in the 1960's.
Sunday, 19 January 2020
Wyrley Bank Branch Canal videos
Wyrley Bank Branch Canal Hunter Videos
Jan 2020
I posted two videos exploring the Wyrley Bank Branch canal on my YouTube channel a few weeks ago and realise I failed to provide a link on the blog.
So, if you havn't seen them, they can be found by clicking the links below:
Wyrley Bank Branch Canal - Sneyd area
Wyrley Bank Branch - northern sections
Jan 2020
I posted two videos exploring the Wyrley Bank Branch canal on my YouTube channel a few weeks ago and realise I failed to provide a link on the blog.
So, if you havn't seen them, they can be found by clicking the links below:
Wyrley Bank Branch Canal - Sneyd area
Wyrley Bank Branch - northern sections
Saturday, 21 December 2019
Exploring the Anson Branch Canal
Anson Branch Canal - BCN
December 2019
I have been out and about again with my Go Pro, this time exploring the line of the abandoned Anson Branch Canal.
Technically, this is a branch of the Walsall Canal, but as the Bentley linked into and used the last half mile, it seemed appropriate to include it in my hunt for the abandoned branches of the Wyrley and Essington.
It's funny what you turn up in the research for these videos. I figured that this was just another little branch built to reach another coal field but in the event there was much more to this waterway, bisected by the construction of Junction 10 of the M6.
Not only did I find myself looking at the collieries in the Reedswood area of Walsall, I also found myself in a quarry with links to the Giants Causeway and Noddy Holder, plus gaining an understanding of how the canal was an essential element of the mighty Birchills power station which stood on the site of todays Sainsburys.
Link to The 20 minute Anson Branch YouTube video
December 2019
I have been out and about again with my Go Pro, this time exploring the line of the abandoned Anson Branch Canal.
Technically, this is a branch of the Walsall Canal, but as the Bentley linked into and used the last half mile, it seemed appropriate to include it in my hunt for the abandoned branches of the Wyrley and Essington.
It's funny what you turn up in the research for these videos. I figured that this was just another little branch built to reach another coal field but in the event there was much more to this waterway, bisected by the construction of Junction 10 of the M6.
Not only did I find myself looking at the collieries in the Reedswood area of Walsall, I also found myself in a quarry with links to the Giants Causeway and Noddy Holder, plus gaining an understanding of how the canal was an essential element of the mighty Birchills power station which stood on the site of todays Sainsburys.
Link to The 20 minute Anson Branch YouTube video
Saturday, 14 December 2019
Exploring Bentley's bottom
Exploring the lower half of the Bentley Canal
December 2019
I have attached a link to the latest Canal Hunter video, this time exploring the lower half of the Bentley Canal.
I can promise that there are no spontaneous bursts of song in this one.....
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