come with us on a gorgeous autumnal cruise saturated with abundant golden colors and
discover the interconnected history of the haven canal wilton windmill and grafton pumping station
we are on the move again we just passed and so are they yeah
we just passed mark and julie from where on the move check out the channel i'll put a link below
it looks like we're going the same direction so we're going to try and catch up with those guys
later on so today we are going to a great bedroom which is uh 10 blocks away
we've just done one and that's where the nearest water point is
so
we are lucky this year autumn has been warm and dry
so the leaves are still on the trees i just want to take it all in
such a gift to experience all the colors without the rain
it must be my birthday all the locks are set in our favor and all the gates are open
i'm loving the variety of all of the unique paddles on the logs today
we're making a lot of progress today and very quickly
olive shape
this is the last stop um where we can't drop off our recycling and the next move we do
there is going to be a recycling bin and the bow is so full we are considering to start
just checking recycling with our bags into the bow because there's no room and we run out of bags
looks like a skip living on a boat you do notice how much stuff you use you know
and you can't get rid of your rubbish you know every week when was the last time we
emptied it at least probably more hasn't this been the quickest 10 lux ever it's not been too bad
we might have to do the last lock in the dark depending how long the water tank will take
sometimes it takes an hour sometimes half an hour depends on the pressure on the water pressure
are we cool yeah the water yeah how long did that take about an hour maybe a little bit more
slow down your maniac
good thank you how are you
it must have been last saturday i think were you just before the
water point yeah i think we saw you actually with the boat anyways
i'm going for a walk it's such a beautiful day today and there is something very gorgeous
nearby so i'm taking you guys with me to show you something wonderful and historic
this is my favorite bit we're going through a woodland
this is the perfect place to have my tea and look at the sky through the golden crown of the tree
it's been a while since i've been in a forest especially at such a colorful time of the year
there is something romantic about windmills there are about 140 windmills left in the uk and only
40 of them are still working there were more than a thousand in the end of the 19th century
i had no idea there were so many windmills around
as you know we love living in unusual places so maybe in a parallel universe somewhere we turned
one of these windmills into a home for ourselves i'm actually further away than i expected
and it's quite windy up here on the field i hope you enjoyed the view
um hello emu
what the actual while i admired the miracle birds i met a local lady who told me something
interesting about them as the story goes one of the beds plucked a diamond earring out of
the farmer's wife's ear to tell you the story accurately i had to google emu's digestive system
so here we go a gizzard is a part of the bird's anatomy and it's an organ of digestion where emu
store the stones that help them to digest their food because they have no teeth so they think it
ended up in one of their what a story so so david the farmer he had to ring the insurance company
and say at the emu my wife's diamond earring who's got the diamond earring which one of you
did you enjoy walking with the forest with me some call it a forest bath an autumnal forest bath
it's been a long time coming finally we made it to the windmill wilton windmill i find windmills
fascinating so the next available opportunity miles and i went to visit this one up close
and the history of this windmill is interconnected with the cannon and even canal
there's so much room under that house have you seen the canada naval canal was built through
the site of some local water mills and the pumps providing the water for the canal lowered the
river levels so that the remaining water mills were no longer viable wilton windmill was built in
1821 after the k na was built it was operational for 100 years however with the introduction of
new steamroller meals and fast production of cheap bread it became unwanted and was abandoned
in 1976 it was restored to its former glory and it's back to being fully operational
also here is the granary building completed in 2019 it's now a home to a small museum
of rural history including a collection of old photos of the windmill and historic artifacts
related to sowing growing and harvesting rain so this mill um hasn't always been
here it's from like another estate um and it was moved here and i think another museum was
selling loads of stuff and items and this was one of it one of them and then they yeah took it apart
and rebuilt it here and the guys that moved it were the same guys that built the globe theatre in
it's a london or strong plow that was one very exciting windmill
that's the only one i've seen i think there is one near the oxford canal somewhere but that is it
next we're visiting the crofton pumping station it was built in 1809 just a year before
the opening of the canal it pumps the water up to the summit to supply the canal
the station has two pumping engines
day-to-day operation the pumping station uses electric pumps that are controlled by the water
level in the summit pound however the original steam driven pumping equipment has been preserved
and is still operational and we're kind of glad that the station was shut because we
would like to go on the day when they run those engines to get the full experience
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