The Canal and River trust have invited us to the Bingley Five rise locks in Yorkshire. We are celebrating the 250 year anniversary that these locks that were built built in 1774 at the height of the canal building age. These are a civil engineering masterpiece. The Bingley five rise locks are one of the wonders of Britains Canal network. A marvel of Canal architecture. The lock gates are some of the biggest lock gates in the country. This is also one of Britains deepest canal locks. The Locks take the Leeds Liverpool canal up a 59 feet incline over 320 feet. Designed by John Longbotham of Halifax. A Pupil of John Smeaton a civil engineer and master Canal designer born in 1724. Smeaton is famous for Smeatons coefficient. We go through the canal locks and take a canal boat and sail up the locks. We interview canal experts from the Canal & River trust and go canal cruising. What more could you want.
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Awesome video as always! I think you would be very interested in the Morris Canal here in the NJ, USA. Closed in 1929, it employed water powered incline planes driven by Scotch reaction turbines. It was a technological marvel of the time ! The canal was mostly left to ruin, but lots of the inclined plain sites/underground turbine chambers are still derelict but intact.
How much water goes through the locks is actually mentioned in the video of your colleague David, Cruising the Cut.
Locks are SO cool, but the creep me out, and I don’t know why. I love the tech behind them and all the thought that went into them, but the mystery beneath the depths and the forces at work when they’re being manipulated is disturbing.
Thank you Martin.The Panama canal is running out of water. Climate change.😢
Thanks Mr. Zero for sharing an incredible bit of history and engineering.
I know nothing like this in Southern California.
Thanks Martin. Great video and content. Marcus is a true tunnel rat. Thanks Marcus for the video shots. Btw. Where is James. Best regards from Chicago
These locks are certainly popular for youtuber’s. This is the third one I have watched in a short period. All celebrating the 250th. anniversary.
Thank you for the detailed story about the operation of the gateways. I watch your work with interest.
Two years ago I became interested in exploring the rivers and canals of Great Britain. I drew all the main rivers, railways, including abandoned ones, canals, locks, tunnels, ventilation shafts in Google Earth. I made a video on my channel. The audience was very interested in this material.
Now I am studying in detail the reservoirs and canals of Finland).
If you are interested, I can give you this detailed map of the canals, rivers and railways of Great Britain. Perhaps it will allow you to see the whole picture and create new interesting videos for viewers.
Good luck in your travels and new viewers on the channel.
impressive . Quality will last.
You had me at canal and then dressed stone 😍.
Unbelievable feats of engineering there from a time when the Great in Great Britain really meant a lot more .
Fantastic video Martin 🙌🏽🙌🏽👍🏽🧱
Hi Martin, shared in my canal groups.
Beautiful
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Hi Martin, As a Narrowboater of many years, I much prefer your version of Bingley 5 rise Locks. It gives more detail to your viewers, the others take stuff for granted, don't normaly comment, but watch everything you put out. Regards Peter.
Another fantastic video 📹 Martin. More please
Excellent video much more informative and interesting than any others posted recently, Question… have you mellowed with age where’s all the underground stuff which is much missed! 😃
Brilliant 😊 🇮🇪
I walked the whole canal a few years ago. The whole length is fascinating but 5 rise is still a highlight for me. Great job Martin! It’s nice to hear from the volunteers too. Those guys do an amazing job!
Sometime you should head south to Devizes in wiltshire to the Caen hill locks. They are amazing. 29 locks
Cracking video martin. Absolutely brilliant engineering going on thete to test the time. Keep up the great work you do martin . And james roy and marcus.
Another excellent video Martin, thank you.
That is so interesting, wow 200 years ago that’s amazing x
Amazing feat. Imagine no steam shovels no bulldozers just shovels pick axes and wheelbarrow and small carts. Thanks Martin.
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Amazing stuff.
Cheers❤
Great video, its on my bucket list, thanks Martin.
What a great feat of engineering and hard graft from da navvies a lot of whom would have been Irish fair play to them👍
That was great guys.
Very nice Martin, really enjoyed this one, you should come and do the tramway trail from the quarries at Dove holes to Bugsworth basin on the peak forest canal.
Pete and Lorraine
Such a diverse crowd, enjoying the great heritage and prestige of the area! I'm sure we'll have lots of volunteers from those segments of society that respect the great hard work of the navvies and the prosperity that these important waterways brought to the UK! Thank you Martin and the River Trust for educating all walks of society. Let's hope (and pray?) the River Trust will be respected by EVERYONE that live in and around the canals and towns they are part of. I'd hate to see plastic bottles, plastic bags and garbages appearing in the not to distant future. We've seen how rivers can turn into stink streams in places like Pakistan, where people disrespect and pollute the waterways. We learnt the hard way, and thankfully have evolved to appreciate what we have ❤
Amazing feat of engineering. What a great video, Martin 👍
I saw this in the canal river boat diary documentary
That hard bit below the wooden gates is called the CILL Martin .
I have walked the Rochdale from Littleborough right through to Halifax where it becomes the Calder and Hebble ! This runs down to Brighouse and on to Wakefield via Dewsbury . This then joins the Leeds and Liverpool east of Leeds ! The Huddersfield canal also runs off the Calder and Hebble and goes though the Stanedge tunnel to Ashton under Lyme and I've walked that from Marsden to Cooper Bridge . It's probably about 70 miles or so from Rochdale back to Ashton but you would have a bit of a detour round the tunnel .
Wow !