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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,CJB Date: 11 Nov 15 - 08:25 AM 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! |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ross Campbell Date: 25 Jan 16 - 10:52 AM Subject: RE: Braunston Historical Narrowboat Festival From: Ross Campbell - PM Date: 25 Jan 16 - 09:38 AM The entire film "The Maggie" is available on YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSmLuSl7ktM Enjoy! It's great fun. The Crinan Canal features later in the film. Last time I passed Ardrishaig, (where the main road crosses the canal entrance) the canal basin had a Clyde Puffer (renamed "The Vital Spark"), available for trips on Loch Fyne. Road signs on Islay feature both "The Maggie" and "The Vital Spark" in silhouette. Ross |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 28 Jul 21 - 08:27 AM Over the last few months I have updated and added to the Songs of the Inland Waterways website. There are now a significant number of videos to go with the 300+ songs documented on there. The address also has been changed to be https://www.waterwaysongs.info rather than http://www........ Unfortunately, despite my best efforts to send Google sitemaps, the website has become pretty much invisible as far as Google searches for such things as 'canal songs' or 'waterway songs' go and I'm getting very few visitors. Sometimes, when searching, I get results for the 'old' pages (which display a narrowboat logo)rather than the 'new' ones (with a circular logo in the top LH corner). Often these problems 'sort themselves out' so I'm not going to tinker with the site for a while but it would be interesting to know if the site shows up when others search using Google or Bing. If anyone can help then I'd be grateful. And if you are interested in UK waterway songs and visit the site then this might boost the numbers and make Mr Google take note. Thanks in advance - this is a non-commercial project - I have nothing to gain by maintaining this site. Stay safe Ian |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Newport Boy Date: 28 Jul 21 - 09:52 AM Ian - Google gave your site (old version) as 3rd hit. Neither Bing or DuckDuckGo found it on the first page. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 28 Jul 21 - 10:28 AM Thanks Newport Boy That's useful info to mull over. The old pages still exist in the root directory of the website because I didn't want any links to them from other websites to fail, but they should redirect to the newer song pages which are in sub-sub directories (e.g. /Songs/A/ etc). Links from the Song Menu should go to the new pages. I've used PRO Sitemaps to create a sitemap which has been submitted to Google and Bing. I'll give them a day or two more to process the info. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 28 Jul 21 - 11:19 AM I use starpage.com for searches, which uses google algotms I believe but not the tracking and gives results less centerd on the US/Canada than Duckduckgo. Anyway. waterways.info comes in as 4th and 5th in the search for canal songs (oreceded only by three youtube results). Pretty much the same result as Google searched from Ireland. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Ian Hendrie Date: 28 Jul 21 - 01:38 PM Further investigation has revealed that Google does not regard the site as 'mobile friendly'. Not a lot I can do about that - apart from modifying 750+ pages! Thanks to those who took time to assist me. Ian |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Newport Boy Date: 29 Jul 21 - 06:25 AM I didn't think to check Startpage. That gives the new /ref-canal-songs page 5th and the old /songmenu page 6th. I think Google is giving increasing weight to mobile-friendly - they try hard to get me to browse on my Android mobile. I rarely use Google, except when the others haven't come up with a commercial hit - Google must give more weight to money-making sites than reference sites. I like the look of Startpage - I'll try it more often. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 27 Aug 21 - 03:34 AM The site Songs of the Inland Waterways has been updated and should now be more accessible on mobile devices. Suggestions and notifications of problems would be welcome. I can be contacted by email. The address is on the website. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Aug 21 - 04:46 AM NARROW BOATS TO TOW © Barry Goodman 2008
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Aug 21 - 08:34 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JerOXpAgM The great Gary and Vera, who also did a version of the Bolinder engine song. An engine used on canals. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Newport Boy Date: 14 Feb 22 - 07:27 AM Way back in this thread: Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Snuffy - PM Date: 16 Jan 08 - 07:49 PM I've done Pontcysyllte by narrowboat, but the first time I crossed it was with a 2-man canoe. As it was January, the canal was frozen over, so we had to carry it on our shoulders as we teetered along the icy towpath, between a 100ft drop and a trough of icy water. The first time I crossed the aqueduct was in a 24ft x 3ft Thames punt, fitted with steel hoops and canvas for camping. We crossed both ways and I confess to using the paddle rather than the punting pole. We had a glorious August week on the canal, from the Horseshoe Falls to Chirk and back, with great weather. It was our honeymoon - sharing a 3ft wide bed for a week is great preparation for 63 years of marriage! Phil |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST Date: 14 Feb 22 - 07:35 AM Not directly about canals, but about the men who made them, Here Come the Navvies, by Ian Campbell. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Waterway Songs webmaster Date: 14 Feb 22 - 09:02 AM Here Come the Navvies is just one of over 300 songs on the Songs of the Inland Waterways website. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Aug 23 - 02:19 PM Ian, Are you related to Ian Bruce who was also associated with your website Songs of the Inland Waterways? |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 31 Aug 23 - 02:49 PM Charley, I am indeed one and the same person but I adopted the alternative surname to avoid confusion with my rather more famous namesake. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 31 Aug 23 - 04:54 PM Charley Noble 11 Feb 03 - 04:58 PM > Maybe I'll ask a "Joe Clone" to delete John Warner's song posted > above. It doesn't seem to provoke any interest. Just as well Joe (or one of his clones) didn't: that's a fine song back there, which I hereby express interest in. I can't quite catch the tune yet, but doubtless something will turn up. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 01 Sep 23 - 12:17 PM Telford's Bridge - Lyrics and one verse recording |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 01 Sep 23 - 01:00 PM The above link now goes to a full recording by Keepers Lock whose canal song CDs are highly recommended (by me). |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Sep 23 - 11:49 AM Ian< Best to you as well! Please send me your current email via PM. Or send me an email at my address as it hasn't changed in decades! Cheerily, Charlie Ipcar |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Thompson Date: 09 Sep 23 - 12:13 PM Wrong country, but I think there's a Ballad of the Thirteenth Lock in Dublin that starts something like: O list and hear my story, I'll sing to you a song, It's only forty verses so I won't detain yiz long… |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 09 Sep 23 - 02:22 PM "Wrong country, but I think there's a Ballad of the Thirteenth Lock in Dublin that starts something like: O list and hear my story, I'll sing to you a song, It's only forty verses so I won't detain yiz long… " Songs about Irish canals are included on the 'Songs of the Inland Waterways' website. Is this the song to which you were referring? Twelve Lock Dublin Canal |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Aug 23 - 02:19 PM Ian, Are you related to Ian Bruce who was also associated with your website Songs of the Inland Waterways? |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Sep 23 - 11:49 AM Ian< Best to you as well! Please send me your current email via PM. Or send me an email at my address as it hasn't changed in decades! Cheerily, Charlie Ipcar |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Thompson Date: 09 Sep 23 - 12:13 PM Wrong country, but I think there's a Ballad of the Thirteenth Lock in Dublin that starts something like: O list and hear my story, I'll sing to you a song, It's only forty verses so I won't detain yiz long… |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 31 Aug 23 - 02:49 PM Charley, I am indeed one and the same person but I adopted the alternative surname to avoid confusion with my rather more famous namesake. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 01 Sep 23 - 12:17 PM Telford's Bridge - Lyrics and one verse recording |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 01 Sep 23 - 01:00 PM The above link now goes to a full recording by Keepers Lock whose canal song CDs are highly recommended (by me). |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 09 Sep 23 - 02:22 PM "Wrong country, but I think there's a Ballad of the Thirteenth Lock in Dublin that starts something like: O list and hear my story, I'll sing to you a song, It's only forty verses so I won't detain yiz long… " Songs about Irish canals are included on the 'Songs of the Inland Waterways' website. Is this the song to which you were referring? Twelve Lock Dublin Canal |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 31 Aug 23 - 04:54 PM Charley Noble 11 Feb 03 - 04:58 PM > Maybe I'll ask a "Joe Clone" to delete John Warner's song posted > above. It doesn't seem to provoke any interest. Just as well Joe (or one of his clones) didn't: that's a fine song back there, which I hereby express interest in. I can't quite catch the tune yet, but doubtless something will turn up. |
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