WORKING BOATS 2 NARROWBOATS ON BIRMINGHAM CANAL BCN DVD

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"YESTERDAY ONCE MORE!" SERIES - "WORKING BOATS 2 THE BIRMINGHAM CANALS AT WORK"
THE LATEST ARCHIVE FILM FROM LAURENCE HOGG PRODUCTIONS - THE FIRST OF A SHORT SERIES OF FILMS ABOUT WORKING BOATS AND LIFE ENTITLED "YESTERDAY ONCE MORE"
COLOUR AND BLACK & WHITE FILM COMBINED WITH FILMSTRIP AND IMAGES
A LARGE PROPORTION HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN UNTIL NOW
During the 1960’s the once all powerful Birmingham Canal Navigations system was existing with just a few remaining traffics. The thousands of boats working had reduced to just a few, with little hope of improvement the remaining traffic worked with worn out craft and little maintenance. In this film you will see some of the last working boats that plied the BCN, sights and images now lost forever
Starting with a look at Stewarts and Lloyd Coombeswood works with its large fleet of joeys we then approach Birmingham along the last few miles of the Grand Union canal, Sampson road depot is our next stop with a look at the Saltley and Nechells area. In West Bromwich we join a horse boat being worked up Ryders Green locks before moving to Walsall and boarding a Thos Clayton motor boat “Towy” for one of the final runs from Walsall gas works to Oldbury
The Wolverhampton level was still active, we see Elements were still moving coat from Anglesey Basin and Leigh and Lycett were still trading in Willenhall. Caggy was moving natural gas pipes along to Wednesfield, whilst in Coseley Matty’s yard was still a “boat museum” in its own right
Back in Walsall we see Keay’s dock at work, repairing bottoms in a wooden motor boat, this film captures the raw, hard nature of boatbuilding – in winter! Finally a glimpse of the last working boat built on the BCN, the H F Truman, the founding boat of the Walsall Youth Leaders Council, we see the early days and its eventual fate at the hands of British Waterways

RUNNING TIME 65 MINUTES