Vlog 343: The Missing Link
Despite the name of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, it doesn’t actually go through the county town of Stafford so a group of volunteers are now trying to make that happen.
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Vlog 336: If you build it…
Formed in 1969, the Grantham Canal Society is undertaking the huge task of restoring a 33-mile canal dating from the Industrial Revolution, over 200 years ago. I went up to see how they’re getting along.
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Vlog 310: Routemasters
In 2019, I made a video about the restoration of the Lichfield canal, which had been ongoing for several decades, powered largely by volunteers and donations. So many people asked me for an update that I’ve now gone back to see what’s changed and whether the pandemic brought things to a halt.
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Vlog 295: Garbage in, garbage out
Every year, the IWA in Milton Keynes organises a massive clean-up of the local stretch of the Grand Union canal, which a team of eager volunteers undertake. The garbage they pull from the waters is quite staggering, as this video shows.
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Vlog 254: The Forest for the Trees
In some of my early cruising videos I would moan about how much over-hanging vegetation there is along the canals but it turns out there’s a load of work going on behind the scenes in winter to cut the bad stuff back. This is a look at that work.
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