"Svend" (svend)
02/27/2019 at 21:42 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
02/27/2019 at 21:42 • Filed to: None | 13
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It’s a not very well known fact that in the U.K. canals have ‘trap doors’ to drain the canal for cleaning or for emergency usage to drain the canal.
This one is at L ock 89 on the Rochdale Canal in Manchester, marked by an arrow on the side of the toe path of the canal.
It drains into the long ago culverted River Tib that runs 16-20 feet below the canal and runs to the nearby River Medlock.
The ‘trap door’ is by no means large.
But that wooden hatch, built into a wooden frame was built 215 years ago, just sitting there, doing it’s job, waiting to be utilised.
As amazing as these were built be hand with very little in the way of machinery, just as amazingly they built in a redundancy into something as simple as a canal, also amazing is that these canals though extremely busy when built are still be used today and have stood the test of time.
After the clean up, looking nearly new again.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 21:49 |
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That’s super neat! Do you have the link to the video?
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Svend
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
02/27/2019 at 21:52 |
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
It’s 26 minutes but doesn’t seem that long watching it.
It’s really interesting stuff.
The last three minutes is them chuntering on camera.
f86sabre
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 21:52 |
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What is amazing is that people haven’t built a housing estate where this was intended to drain because they forgot it was there.
Jayvincent
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:00 |
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If you are a fan of British rivers, you might like the fictional series written by Ben Abramovich: rivers-of-london
and you might not. I did, hence the recommendation!
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:02 |
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Thanks! How are you holding up?
shop-teacher
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:05 |
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Whoa!! That is really cool!
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Svend
> f86sabre
02/27/2019 at 22:06 |
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To build here you need to do excavations and although it’s forgotten by many, very detailed plans are kept of virtually everything works related by local and national authorities.
There is even a law re quiring that builders, contractors, etc... must allow for archaeologists to excavate the area to be built on if there is reason to believe there is something archaeological underneath, no matter how insignificant, in many cases they must pay for the dig and the time taken to do it, nor can they continue work until the archaeologists have given their consent and everything is documented, preserved or taken away.
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Svend
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
02/27/2019 at 22:09 |
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Pretty well. It sort of doesn’t feel like it’s happened, like it was a nightmare, TV show, etc... Everything else is going on like nothing has happened.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:11 |
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That’s good to hear, keep your head up.
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Svend
> shop-teacher
02/27/2019 at 22:16 |
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I only heard about them when there was a story the other year when someone accidentally snagged the trap door chain and drained the canal. Lol.
It takes the whole canal building to a whole new level to know they built them over or near rivers so a canal can be drained to be cleaned or other reason.
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Svend
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
02/27/2019 at 22:18 |
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I don’t know if it is or not.
It’s like something is missing, you know what it is, but doubt yourself because everything else is going on as normal and I don’t think it should when your mum dies, it feels like everything should stop.
DipodomysDeserti
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:24 |
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That’s awesome. The canals here were originally built about 1,500 years ago. After a few centuries the people who built them realized agriculture in the desert was a bad idea and went back to subsistence living. Then Europeans showed up, thought agriculture in the desert was a great idea, and started using the canals again. Took ‘em about sixty years to fuck everything up. Ahhhhh, civilization.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:31 |
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Fortunately or unfortunately, it will hit. You’re still in shock. It’s completely normal to feel the way that you do now. Just know that we are here for you.
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Svend
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
02/27/2019 at 22:44 |
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It hit, and it did with others, but it doesn’t seem right that the TV still plays, people go to work, the planet moves and the sun still rises with no acknowledgement of my mum’s passing. It just doesn’t seem right somehow.
I always thought for one reason or another, I'd be the one to go first.
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shop-teacher
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:45 |
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Whoops!
Yeah, the fact that they thought that far ahead is pretty impressive.
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Svend
> DipodomysDeserti
02/27/2019 at 22:50 |
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Ye’, we’ve still got Roman stuff still do their jobs. Some more visible than others but there and working away none the less.
Some less so, merely showing remains such as the forts and Hadrian's wall only a mile away from me. Most of it taken down over the centuries by masons and farmers scavenging the stone for building.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:52 |
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its alway fascinating how these weird city features came to be.
the city and university did a similar thing to a river, covered and put a street over. funny part is to make way for the sewer, gas lines the street has a high arch and on the sides @8" from the center crest. This normally doesn’t mean much but could have terrible consequences for someone who wasn’t paying attention, as they could step off and into 8" of water or winter slush.
wafflesnfalafel
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 22:52 |
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yeah, adds a whole extra degree of respect for the engineers, “someday, 200 years from now, we might need this...”
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Svend
> shop-teacher
02/27/2019 at 22:57 |
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The canals in Manchester are an amazing feat in themselves. Manchester used to export all it's stuff via Liverpool, but Liverpool docks would but a large toll on goods from Manchester to be shipped as did the canal and train companies, so Manchester built their own canal at great expense to bypass it.
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shop-teacher
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 23:00 |
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Tax 'em high enough, and they will find a way around it :)
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Svend
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
02/27/2019 at 23:01 |
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It’s amazing stuff.
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Svend
> wafflesnfalafel
02/27/2019 at 23:17 |
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Ye’, it really is. Back then they did things differently.
This was a chapel AND water tower at a military hospital, Old Queen Victoria Military Hospital, Netle y, South ampton.
This was a Victorian ps y chiatric hospital water tower.
This is a Victorian, Crossness Pumping Station in London, part of London’s sewage sys tem .
These places are only to hold water, move wa t er or treat water.
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wafflesnfalafel
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 23:21 |
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beautiful
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Svend
> shop-teacher
02/27/2019 at 23:26 |
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The Manchester shipping canal is amazing.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Manchester-Ship-Canal/
The Locks near Warrington on the canal.
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Svend
> wafflesnfalafel
02/27/2019 at 23:28 |
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This was done, even though virtually no one else would ever see it.
It blows my mind.
Berang
> Svend
02/28/2019 at 00:29 |
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I once read a hilarious book titled World’s Worst, that was just a collection of the dumbest things people had done (up to the 1970s, when the book was published anyway) and it included a story about a clean up crew accidentally opening a canal drain when
they were pulling trash out of the canal.
They came back the next day to find the canal empty of water.
My favorite one was the world’s worst coal fire, where a man attempting to light a coal fire in his fireplace, accidentally lit his coal scuttle on fire, lit his house on fire, and lit himself on fire while trying to move the flaming coal scuttle out of the house.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Svend
02/28/2019 at 03:35 |
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back when labour was cheap and plentiful
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Svend
> pip bip - choose Corrour
02/28/2019 at 04:35 |
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Back when people worked hard.
Granted they worked hard or starved or lived in severe hardship.
Now. I see s chool leavers or people who left school years ago who’ve never worked and complain or leave if you even say boo to them because they are taking too long to do something. It’s like they feel they’ve earned their pay cheque just by turning up (often late).
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Svend
02/28/2019 at 05:02 |
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Rally round the navvy!
LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
> Svend
02/28/2019 at 07:07 |
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You are speaking my language right now, surface water systems are my thing.
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shop-teacher
> Svend
02/28/2019 at 07:11 |
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Daaaaaaang!
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Svend
> LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
02/28/2019 at 08:45 |
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The crazy thing is it’s not just surface-surface water but deep underground water systems like culverts, natural under ground rivers, etc...
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Svend
> shop-teacher
02/28/2019 at 08:50 |
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Ye’, all done by hand and minimal machinery, though they actually made a rail system for trains to go in and collect the soil
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LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
> Svend
02/28/2019 at 09:38 |
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You are s till using words that make me interested and provide me with income . . .
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Svend
> LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
02/28/2019 at 10:45 |
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Lol.
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f86sabre
> Svend
02/28/2019 at 21:12 |
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When you live on the strata of many societies I can appreciate that kind of care.
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Berang
> Svend
03/02/2019 at 03:04 |
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here we go:
https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/memories-of-pulling-the-plug-on-canal-1-624620