The Trans Pennine Bimble: NCN 62 Episode #7 Forrest Way to Latchford Locks

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Good morning bimblers and you join me on top of Forest Way bridge where we left off in the last episode that’s where right we’re trans penine bimbling today National cycle Route 62 episode 7 we’re getting through him slowly but surely we’re right by where Charles Taylor built that big iron ship warrington’s

Titanic I mentioned that in a previous bimble in fact I’m going to be mentioning a lot of previous Bimal today cuz this is my stomping ground warington I’m a Warrington lad born and bread so you’ll have to forgive me if a WAFF on about something I’ve already

Waffled on about but I can’t deprive the new viewers of the rich Warrington history so let’s stop messing about and let’s [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] bimble only this time things to show me but life just keeps turning back to the way things will be for all knew this time you would still see National cycle Route 62 passes under two Railway viu around here by something called moley common we visited the smaller of the viu

Previously in a video I entitled Warrington what where who I’m sure there’ll be links to that down in the description it’s possibly warrington’s oldest Railway Viaduct and it was probably designed by either George Stevenson Joseph Lock or Robert Stevenson that’s George Stevenson’s son it was opened in 1837 for the Grand

Junction Railway that’s a railway that went all the way from Birmingham to dalir in Warrington where it would have met with the Liverpool to Manchester line the world’s first inter city steam powered Railway as designed by George Stevenson and Joseph Lock same fellas and they’re the same same fellas that

Must have designed this Railway Viaduct an interesting comparison is between this little Viaduct and the big one behind it this little one only had to accommodate Mery Flats the barges that used to go up and down the river Mery down the sanki canal down the Weaver navigation where is the big

Viaduct had to get the railway line up to the level of the next VOD duct which goes over the Manchester ship canal big ocean going vessels going down that much bigger it doesn’t quite have the history of the little Viaduct though possibly warrington’s oldest Railway Viaduct which must have been designed by either

Joseph Lock George Stevenson or his son Robert Stevenson and nobody talks about it there’s no wikipedia page or blur about it on the internet apart from me talking about it but the dates can’t lie let’s bimble those Railway vucks didn’t just pass over the river Mery they passed over

This the runor latchford canal aka the old key Canal aka the black bear canal aka the aw navigation AKA the artist formerly known as Canal most of the runcorn latchford canal is now gone but there’s still a section here by moley common that has some water in it in fact

In episode 5.5 of our trans penine Bimal there’s a section at wig Island that also still has some water in it it was opened in July of 1804 to bypass all the twisty bits of the river Mery and to bypass Francis egon’s Bridgewater Canal which we also visited in that

Episode it was superseded by the railways and the railways were superseded by the Manchester ship canal and the Manchester ship canal was superseded by the East lanks Road which was designed with a cycle way to the side of it the East lanks Road was superseded by the m62 motorway and the

Motorways are basically the canals of the 20th century aren’t they although you can’t ride your bike down the motorway will no doubt be riding heading under some motorways and over the top of some motorways let’s bimble all of that fascinating history lies to the side of this moly common

I’ve mentioned it a few times now haven’t I moley is Old English for Meadow and common means common ground or common land it’s where you could do a bit of farming without paying a rich lad some rent it’s actually where we get the term commoner from meaning someone that

Uses common land I need to say a big thank you to a John Williams from the Warrington local history group he posted some pages from his book all about the local history around moley common and Walton stock to e and places like that without him I wouldn’t know about moley

Common thanks very much John prior to the building of the Manchester ship canal this would have been part of the District of runor does that mean that warrington’s oldest Railway Viaduct should be run corns all this Railway Viaduct I hope not I bet John knows moly common would

Have been much larger than it is today but they built a factory a hydrogen peroxide Factory and the effluent outflow flows into just where we were doing a piece to camera about the rorn lford canal and it flows into what would have been the river Mery that’s right they shifted it that’s

Bimble from the way things were before it just proves to me how it’s meant to feel we have motive we have the time we were meant to extraordinary lives it changed with time you still know me we just keep facing back to the way things were before it should plainly show what we

Meant to know we have a motive we have the time we were meent to extra orary lies and over lines days keep moving but time just keeps falling by last time I came filming here bimblers this fence wasn’t here it’s a new addition to stop you getting into the

Old blocks rightly so the building of the giant Manchester ship canal meant they had to re-root the river Mery several times Les we forget the river Mery and the Manchester ship canal are one and the same at least between wton and rickon here near the center of

Warrington they cut a large loop out of the river and they made that into Causeway park that’s where my niece phoe’s favorite playground is hey fees you okay I ride my bike that way to work every morning down a road called River Road that’s not why I ride my bike down

There cuz it used to be the river Mery ride my bike down there to get off the main road cuz I don’t want to get run over by a BMW part of the original course of the river Mery was used as a Warf off the Manchester ship canal and that Warf was

Used by Green alls Brewery to shift hops about and Export out vladar Vodka it’s made in Warrington well it’s made in Scotland now in the 1990s they filled in some more of that Warf and made another Park it’s all very nice around here but the locks to get you from the Manchester

Ship canal back into the river Mery are still here only there’s now water in it these days just a load of mud probably right they’ve put these fences Up Big PS are easiest to make aim for the Stars it’s yours just wait you do your best along the way but it’s those arms that told me I don’t care if it’s yours or mine without you it’s just a waste of time you showed me from the start such

Inspirations need a heart to bring you could Be well bimblers we’ve reached a fork in the road if we go that that way we could go down the original Stretch of the runor latchford canal aka the old key Canal aka the black bear Canal we could go all the way down there through wolston over wolston eyes back onto the Manchester

Ship canal and end up back on National cycle Route 62 maybe on a different day if we go that way back where we’ve came we could go in Morrison’s for an ultimate all day breakfast but we don’t have time so I think we have to go that way because

We’re trans penine bimbling aren’t we let’s bimble no soon get lost along the way as sure as night designed the day as long as I’m allowed to say it’s my heart that told me I don’t care you just disagree about me you it wasn’t meant to

Be you showed me from the Star such Inspirations need a heart to bring you out it could be our big aspirations need a heart to hold you hard to hold you I don’t care you can say what you like I’m a p loving person but I know I’m

Right it’s as easy as right from you may have seen in the news a few years back the Uproar that was caused by Peele Holdings when they proposed to increase the toll over wton Bridge from 12p to1 it would have been the first toll increase since

1894 if we had just for inflation it would have been 2 and A2 shillings to cross back in 1894 if we put that in new money should be about 13 quid to cross over the wton bridge I’m not in favor of increasing the toll loan doesn’t make a difference

To me it’s free if you’re on your bike but PE Holdings have had enough haven’t they we’ve given the Manchester ship canal we’ve given sulfur Keys we’ve just given them fiddle’s fairy power station and now they want extra money to do up a bridge that they should have been doing up

Anyway this bridge in Warrington is the twin sister of the wton bridge exactly the same design by exactly the same designer Edward leer Williams the chief engineer of the Manchester ship canal company only this bridge in Warrington is run by Warrington B Council and they keep it a lot nicer freshly

Painted and what do we call this bridge in Warrington do we call it Warrington bridge latchford bridge Stockton e Bridge no we call it canel Bridge because that’s the style of bridge call a spade of spade Maybe it didn’t work at the time maybe it never Did a mistake that made the distance or a trying way to Live maybe it’s the time that you grabbed up my arms and electricity flowed from my shoulders to Palms in a white hot glow leaving white cold scars left fair and on show just to prove they were ours maybe it work maybe it never did [Applause] I’ve climbed up a disu railway embankment bimblers so you don’t have to it’s not part of national cycle Route 62 but I am an experienc Warrington sherper I’ve been coming up here since I was about 9 years old and we’ve come up here to see latchford

Viaducts it’s been a very Bridge heavy episode hasn’t it but I do like Bridges they’re in the top five Bridges churches big boats canals and post boxes latchford viu used to carry the Ultram and Warrington Junction Railway that was up until 1853 before it even opened when it became the warington and Stockport

Railway a large stretch of national cycle Route 62 which we’ll be tackling in the next episode is that very Railway line passenger Services ceased on Monday the 10th of September 1962 that’s all thanks to Mr beIN he’s a fellow that wrote a government report saying that they should close all the railways

Because it would be cheaper I call him the patent saint of cycle paths because all those Railways that he closed become cycleways for me to bimble down all hail Mr beaching the line officially closed in July 1985 I would have been about 6 months old when that happened but the railway

Vied up looms large in my memory I got grounded for coming up here me and my mates went and got a load of boxes from quick save and we were sliding down it on our bums and my sister told on me what my mom didn’t know at the time is we’ve

Been coming up here quite a lot in fact we found an old mailbag by what used to be latchford station but we couldn’t take it home because our moms had know we’ve been up the railway embankment to all the other YouTubers that have been up here nobody in the hous is

Either side of the Railway embankment care that you’re up here kids come up here and smoke and do graffiti my dad used to walk the dog up here anyway I’ve got to get back down now I don’t think I’ll slide down on me bumb on a cardboard box [Applause]

Though quite like how it Is maybe it didn’t work at the time maybe it never Did a novelty Improvement left lonely as it Gives or maybe it’s the time that you close both your eyes and you pouted your lips as you waited for mine in the soft red glow and so we reach our final Portage latchford locks this is where this episode ends back on my home turf me and my mate

Danny Fox used to come here and M the lock keeper asking him when big boats were coming through it’s the reason why I’m a canal Weirdo And I’m fascinated by Big Ships I’m sort of a bit scared of him but very drawn to him at the same time latchford locks was officially

Opened in 18 1994 that was when Queen Victoria opened the whole of the Manchester ship canal the whole of the Manchester ship canal it’s 36 mil long it stretches from East on the wh to the port of Manchester which is in Salford it cost5 million which if we

Adjust for inflation it’s about 1.6 billion we just gave it to Peele Holdings it was a Daniel Adamson that was the chairman of the board of the Manchester ship canal company he’s the fell that got it through Parliament and raised all the money and for that he got

A steam ship named after him it’s mowed up in Fram with bimble to it the chief engineer was Edward leader Williams the same fellow that built the caliva bridge which is the same as the wton bridge it would have built all the swing Bridges including the Barton swing Aqueduct the

World’s first and only swing Aqueduct and he would have built all of the locks from easn all the way to the port of Manchester in sford on top of all that Edward leader Williams also made all the locks on the Weaver navigation and he also designed the anderton boat lift clever

Chap when it was all finished it made the port of Manchester the third busiest port in the UK not bad considering it’s 36 Mi Inland it could accommodate a ship that was 161 M long 19 M wide 7 m deep that means that the Manchester

Ship canal is at least 8 and 1/2 M deep so don’t fall in I’ve been wanting to do one of those cruises you know from the Albert dock all the way into Salford but it’s a bit dear for a bimal’s wage 48 quid did they do influencer [Applause] rates Oh