Another episode of David doing what David does best! Even though I'm not likely to ever visit in person I find mini documentaries like this to be incredibly interesting. Thanks David!

"...the best way to keep them in operation is to keep them in use [....] in line with its original purpose". Thanks again, David.

One month on a narrow boat in the UK for holiday is my #1 best dream. It's all David's fault. Thank you for Cruising the Cut. Cheers

The whole canal system in the UK is truly an amazing thing and the fact that it has been for the most part kept it in working condition all these years is even more interesting

David, you do a great service with these historical and technical episodes not only to your fellows in the UK narrowboating community, but to the entire nation as well. Arguably, you are documenting a way of life and also a lesson in community which is exemplary around the planet. That is simply outstanding as is your channel, Cruising The Cut! Cheers.

To put the time period these locks were built in perspective for Americans, The Boston Tea party occurred December 16, 1773. This would have been just months prior to the opening of the Bingley 5-Rise lock flight. The First Continental Congress was formed and first met September 5, 1774 some months later. Thanks David for these historical vlogs on the canals. I love history. Cheers from Florida 🌴🌴🌴

Thanks to David and Cruising The Cut, the Canals and River Trust never had better public relations.

The enthousiasme of these "canal people" is contagious, wonderful!!.

2:43 regarding letters, the job I have now I got in 1989, and in that office everything was done via letters, we got letters in the morning and we had secretaries to write letters for us, and I think in 1992 we got computers, (pc) and should communicate via emails, one of my colleague refused to use emails and deleted all his emails each day, and one day he declared with a powerful voice, "if someone want to get in contact with me, they have to send a letter!" So, for young people not knowing about letters there was a time where (some) engineers refused to communicate with anything else than letters

I love the way the chap switched from gallons in one sentence to litres in the next.

Bingley 5 rise is a monster, and holds a lot of very fond memories for me and my family. Leeds/Liverpool canal was our backyard as we were growing up visiting the different canals around the uk from our club in Doncaster. Seeing Barry stood at the bottom lock waving us in one night after planning to moor up at the bottom and then having to wait for tea till we got to the top , still makes us both laugh and grimace in equal measure 🙄🤣🤣🤦‍♀️ nearly broke the lock record time getting to the top! A beautiful working feature that is amazing to see and amazing to use!

I live just a few miles west of the Five Rise and it is a point of local pride in an area that has its struggles. Thanks for highlighting our local wonder David - gradely!

Thank you David for your latest broadcast quality documentary. Such interesting content expertly put together. 👏👏👍😀

I genuinely get a little weepy over things built a long time ago that still work today😢 like someone made this for us

What a rich history of the canal and lock! I learned a fun new word today too. "Gongoozler," from the Wikipedia page for the lock under 'Tourism' - "a person who enjoys watching activity on the canals of the UK"

Quite a remarkable bit of engineering! What a pleasure to watch and learn about it! Thanks David! Cheers from Missouri USA!

Thank you so much, David for this in depth look at the Bingley 5 rise Lock system near Leeds, if I understand the content properly. The Canal and River Trust are doing a good job in maintaining and preservation. I simply love hearing about the magnificent achievement that our forefathers did hundreds of years ago with their bare hands so to speak. 🥰

The people you interviewed are heroes. Many CRT folks are volunteers; 'The Eccentrics' who feel a passion for the mundane of yesteryear. I just love it! The woman from 11.00 onward is a joy to listen to. It's a bit like when, 250 years from now, we are all fleeing everywhere in supersonic underground pods, pre-programmed to our destination and somebody is still re-tarmacking the M1 for historical vehicles which tootle along at 70mph.

Proud to say this is my local canal and over the years I've walked all of it between Gargrave and Leeds city centre making use of the railway which follows the route to hop on and hop off to complete sections. Some sections I've seen dozens of times as there is always something different to see. The same stretch of canal on a crisp clear and sunny January day is a completely different experience to the same stretch on a hot day in July. A true tell tale of the use Five Rise has seen is the wear on the steps, all those boatmans clogs with steel sole protectors have worn them over the years. Same goes for the steps in any of the mills in the area, including Saltaire.

There are marvels of engineering carried out in past centuries such as this set of English locks. The people interviewed here have every reason to be proud to present this site to us, it is indeed magnificent. I know of a similar site in the south of France near the town of Beziers on the "canal du midi": "The 9 locks of Fonceranes". These locks allow you to overcome a drop of 21.50 m (71 ft), over a length of 300 m (980 ft). This site, slightly older than the English site, was inaugurated in 1697 (under the reign of Louis XIV) And a few hundred meters further a canal bridge (built in 1858, also a marvel of engineering) spanning the Orb River allows boats to cross it 12 meters above the level of the river

Well done David, we need people like you to keep up the pressure on government to provide help with the finances to ensure that CRT can continue to protect the canals for everyone. Award yourself a large cheese butty!

Thanks for continuing to provide plenty of canal-related content since you returned to dry land. I wonder how many men died or were maimed building this incredible feat of engineering.

As an Australian it seems incredible that the 5stair lock was built while my country was home to only the Indigenous community. My sister is giving all her sisters and brother a special holiday for their 65th birthdays. She has already taken one sister to Paris, our only brother on the Indian Pacific Train from Perth to Sydney and will be taking another sister to Italy later this year. You might have guessed she loves to travel, with 2 more sisters to go (including me-the youngest) over the next 5yrs. My choice holiday is to spend 5or so days on the northern canals on a hire boat then up to Scotland and do another 5 or so days traveling the Locks(think Lock Ness) and around a week doing land things of which I haven't researched yet, only turning 60 last October I have a bit of time to do that. My niece was living in London many yrs ago and fell in love with an Englishman. They married while still living their and the wedding was in an old Scottish castle and yes it was winter and snowing, she loved it.

Great historical documentation you are making, David. Your library of canal videos will be a source for future historians, as well as a joy for us in the present. Thank you.

this is the only corner of the Internet that has never made me regret being there ,, thank you david

Spent half of my childhood narrowboating in the uk, locks were the highlight of any day..❤❤

And it's BEAUTIFUL! 1774?!! BEAUTIFUL.

Absolutely amazing, pencils paper maybe slide rules i don't know, but one thing for sure a lot of blood sweat and tears to build that hard work not a lot of pay, navvies stayed away from homes weeks or months at a time, and it still stands and works today a monument to those ole navvies. Hats off to em all.

This some more history that needs to be taught. Good work.

Impressive piece of engineering from the 18th century. It is nice to see the the UK has done such an amazing job of maintaining and restoring those historic waterways.

I have relatives that live in Skipton and some in Gargrave. Whenever we visited we always " went ta canal ta see boats" . As kids, we were sometimes allowed to help with the locks, Happy days

what a lovely video, the obvious love the 'staff' have for this and the canal as a whole came across clearly. And hats off the 250 year old engineers and workers for their ability to build something so big so quickly that has been so long lasting! I'm embarrassed to say how long it took to replace a roundabout with traffic lights where I used to live!!!! Keep up the good work David 🙂

If I ever get to the UK I'm going to visit the Bingly locks, and the Falkirk Wheel.

Brilliant and enjoyable video of superb engineering. Thank you David.

Very well put together. Gives a clear idea of how the locks work, the difficulty of building them and how important they are to ecology. Plus some great filming!

Hello David, Thanks for this video, it was really interesting... Take care. Paul,,

Oh sheesh, wanted to see what David was up to and he gives me a full on professional documentary about these locks. So well put together(complete with a few "lemme get my money outta this dumb drone"shots),learned so much. We here on KZfaq don't deserve you.

Steady on there lad - you are close to becoming a national treasure! Deeply impressed by the time you take to respond to the comments. This is rarely the case for those KZfaqrs solely focussing on 'content'.

I really like these mini documentaries of lately. The people are so enthousiastic, nice to see!

Amazing to see this historical feat of engineering! Amazing what they could accomplish in the past. As a national of the Netherlands it is awesome to see what the UK has to offer. Been watching your videos non-stop for weeks now!

Thanks David and the passionate volunteers for a great insight on the Bingley Five rise locks. Very interesting.... 😊

Superb stuff again David - thank you!

Ah, twelve plus minutes of a proper bit of telly. Cheers David, another solid bit of reporting.

I had a chuckle when he mentioned it was amazing anything got done with the lack of mobile phones. I still get by with with a flip-non-smart phone and sometimes there are people who think I'm far behind the times. Is it just me or is anyone else getting the feeling, as time marches on, we look back on what we've made and (more?) people can't fathom how it ever was done with so little technology? I tend to think we did have some tools and knowledge back then, but it was way different than what we have now, and the expectations are so different. Personally, I love the fact that there still having a use in the world despite their age.

Thank you, David, and I should think that the CRT should be thanking you for not pointing out the primary school child error of affixing a Cast Iron sign directly onto an Oak Lock Gate, visibly causing rot due to the Iron reacting with the Tannin in the Oak!

This channel got me so interested in your waterways and your adventurers! Cheers to another great informative video and bit of history !

Absolutely entertaining and educational at the same time! Many thanks!

Brilliant video, well done. I used to live there and know that place well.

What a wonderful video. So interesting and brilliant interviews (interviewees & interviewer too). Happy birthday (at the time of filming) to the Bingley 5-Rise. Hip hip hooray 😃 🙂🐿🌈❤️

So grateful you make videos like this!!

That lock set is just older than my country... I absolutely LOVE that this is still in use and so lovingly and carefully maintained and protected. THIS is living history at its finest! AND To be fair, making that TODAY would be an engineering masterpiece. Doing it two and a half centuries ago is just mind-blowing.

I’ve never spent a second of my life on waterways or canals. These structures are simple but brilliant examples of engineering which ever fails to amaze. Respect to those who put these together.

I think even the original builders would say that persisting with oaken canal gates when more modern materials are available is putting nostalgia before good sense.

WOW! That was a real eye-opener for this softy Southener. Excellent video.😎

Proud Canal workers, smiles awesome.. great vid as well

And another fine and interesting video. Talking and listening to extraordinary and interesting people to tell the stories of our greatest achievements always gives me great pleasure and here David does a fine job of linking the story into a great record of the canal history. Cheers 👋🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺

Thank you David! Such a wonderful video. I love the history and the excitement from the interviews.

I started watching your videos, 😊and I am really enjoying the journey. It feels restful for me but not so for you. Such a joy to view. Thank you. Soothing!!!!

Very nice. Possibly your best documentary yet, well produced and edited.

That is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

Never realized staircase locks so much water. I never run out of things to learn from Cruising the Cut.

They absolutely did have cranes, just not like we have now. Cranes and counterbalances have been known since Egyptian times. It's still a marvel of engineering, getting that many locks into that small an area with that steep a rise, but the "building blocks" of how to do it have been known for quite a while.

Thanks for another great mini-doc, David!

We Built some fantastic warships out of timber you can see how this engineering transfers . Very much enjoyed this episode. Top man 👍

What an amazing structure! 250 years of intensive use is incredible and wonderful to see the passion of all the people looking after it. An instant classic Cruising the Cut video, brilliant 👍

Love these videos where the CRT folks give you further info and history about locations!

Just wanted to say Thanks. The more you do the more I learn about canals..

We've had similar here in Lowell Massachusetts. There was a time when the Middlesex Canal ran the 30 miles from Lowell to Boston. It is entirely gone but the city of Lowell does have a series of locks and canals which powered the textile industry. Lowell consumes vast tons of cotton from the southern region of the country an used the cotton to create vast tons of textile fabrics.

Such an amazing and interesting video! We never considered that staircases use more water, always thought the opposite. Learned something new thank you 😊

A great vid David, and showing an important part of our heritage. Thanks for posting it.

Another masterpiece, David. Thank you for the excellent work.

You are getting good at these documentaries. Well done.

Wow 😮 What a interesting peace of history… thank you sir for sharing 🙏🏻

Great vid, and great presentation, the quality of the presentation is stunning, a whole course of history in a bottle! Thanks!

Great vlog! I can appreciate the history of the construction of the locks.

That was awesome to see. David I just love your videos!!! Cheers

British ingenuity and engineering at it's best. World class!!

I remember doing this in the 1980's in our Creighton 'Triton' that is still going strong!

I live in the Texas, we get about 19 inches of rain a year. Love Dave's informative videos and all the water!!!

... Thank you for making the video. I missed the old times videos. But I'm good now 🙂 Thank you

Great Blog As Always ❤️ Absolutely Stunning Piece Of Engereing Amazing 👀❤️👏👏

How the canals and locks were built in the 1700s never ceases to amaze me. Fascinating!

Great video dave.the lady at 8:10 explained what they were doing wounderfully.

Cool. Keep historic technics.

Another great vid David. Very educational and informative and streets ahead of anything that the current crop of tv channels could ever offer.

If I, a very American man with a very English name, ever make it to the UK, the two things on my list are visiting the village of Satterthwaite and going for a cruise on the canals.

VERY interesting! Thanks for sharing.

I really hope the BBC commission you to do a series on the canal network. You are producing single handedly high quality stuff that puts to shame a lot of network output.

Thank you David amazing work you do!

Thank you as always for beautifully composed video!

Many a happy time spent wading in the overflows of the locks my grandad had a canal boat that was based at the marina there all. My summer hols spent there or travelling from there up to Blackburn but had to turn round as the canal was too mucky after Blackburn this was back in the late 70s early 80s

A very enjoyable change from binge-watching the van videos! As an American, it's humbling to see such a magnificent work that is older than my country! It gives a new perspective to history.

Happy Birthday steep lock flight!

Most educational part for me was about the wildlife and the most enjoyable was hearing and seeing the enthusiasm of the people you interviewed. Great video, thanks.

Thank you for another fine and informative feature report! You let the people most invested in the canal tell the story.

i needed a good dose of canal, thank you!

Hi what a wonderful engineer feet just fantastic. I can’t believe that these guys did this so long ago without any cranes and high technology like we got today from Australia

I discovered Cruising the Cut videos on KZfaq after having seen the (Apple? Netflix?) series. It’s taken me awhile to get through all 320+ videos, and my only “complaint” is that now I have to wait like everybody else for the next installment! (My husband likes to tease me that I am watching my “English boyfriend”-I’m in California). I also thoroughly enjoy the Vandemonium channel. No desire to do the DIY myself, but am fascinated by the way others are willing/eager to jump in to these projects. My son is the same way; never met a project he wasn’t willing to tackle. Thanks so much for the enjoyment over many hours!

Yes, more of this. Love the history and improvement videos.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! I’ve walked Bingley 5-rise many times. Everybody you talked to was so so enthusiastic, and well-informed, and able to explain tricky details. Again, well-editted thank you.