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Thread #56636   Message #3750014
Posted By: GUEST,CJB
11-Nov-15 - 08:25 AM
Thread Name: Canal songs (UK)
Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK)
Blaster Bates, the Saltworks and the Canal

Hilarious - as are other B.B. recordings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTW7KaV1g4

Batesy was blowing up an old saltworks but some of the charge never went off. So they set off the remaining explosives in the canal - just as a 70ft long narrowboat was 'pop pop popping' along!