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Raising sunken Birchell


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Its a real shame that CRT don't just stick historical films like that on in full.......however, I do understand if  the venerable Lorry Hogg RIP and others decided that BW and CRT weren't worthy of trusting the history of their collections to them,

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IA Recordings/Sight Seen have several DVD's available documenting historic canal techniques. It's not directly CRT/BW that were involved, but I believe they helped ensure it was possible to do the recordings, for example re-instating canal furniture, or giving access to their buildings.

 

https://www.iarecordings.org/friends/sightseen/sight_seen_index.html

 

All good stuff.

Mike
 

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Yes, I believe, the video is Gunnels Under and came about after a reconstruction of raising a boat by specialist tackle at the Black Country Museum using the Birchill, i believe. Such tackle being preserved after being discovery at Broad Street Canal warehouse in Wolverhampton. It would be of interest to note the age. This warehouse was built for the Shropshire Union. It passed to Midland & Coast, then FMC, and then Docks & Inland Waterways, British Transport Waterways and finally British Waterways. It would be reasonable to say it was put there post 1947, but then the canal carriers might have also had the need of raising boats.

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