22 Jun 2025
In this video we visit Tardebigge locks on the Worcester and Birmingham canal. It is top lock number 58. The third deepest canal lock in the country. The lock walls have had problems with one side of the lock structure brickwork bulging. The lock was constructed and opened in 1818. A structure over 200 years old it is a testament to the Georgian canal engineers and navies that built it and the height of the canal building era. The Canal and River trust hare faced with repairing this lock and are adhering to strict conservation rules. The front facing bricks are being reclaimed and cleaned and so this takes us to Cawardens a brick reclamation yard. We see the treatment the bricks are given in order to re use them. For the bricks that cannot be used new ones will be put in place. A staffordshire blue engineering brick has been chosen as the nearest match to the original bricks. So we go to a massive clay quarry to see the clay that has been sourced and then onto a brickworks. Ketley brickworks established in 1805. So we see bricks being made at the factory, bricks being reclaimed. A fascinating story of heritage and conservation on Britains canal. By the Canal and River Trust.
22 Mar 2026
In this video we take a look at the forgotten history of Piccadilly gardens in Manchester. First we go underground in Piccadilly gardens to look at a plant room that provided power and water to a fountain. Then we look at the history from the 18th century. There was old clay pits and since medieval tomes there was a ducking stool for unruly women situated at the flooded daub holes or clay pits. Later The Manchester Royal Infirmary was situated in Piccadilly. It was a hospital and a Victorian lunatic asylum. We take a look at maps and plans of historic Manchester. Later we take a look at old photographs of Manchester and look at how Piccadilly gardens evolved after the second world war WWII into a sunken garden.
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What would it actually take to leave Earth — not for a weekend on the Moon, but forever? This video tests three real generation-ship proposals against five brutal constraints: gravity, radiation, closed-loop life support, cultural continuity across 400 years, and the selection problem — choosing who gets to go. We break down Chrysalis (a 58 km modular ship that sheds stages like a rocket), Proximum (a civilization carved inside an asteroid), and WFP (a self-assembling micro-city based on MIT research). Along the way we confront governance without a homeworld, genetic bottlenecks, generational memory loss, and why shared rituals might matter more than engine specs. The answer isn’t one ship — it’s three radically different philosophies of what it means to be human in deep space.
23 Mar 2026
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Scotland Released 11 Beavers Into a Dead River — What They Did With Mud and Sticks Was Unbelievable
It was the boldest rewilding experiment Britain had ever attempted, and it started with just 11 animals. On May 28, 2009, in the first licensed mammal reintroduction in British history, 3 families of Eurasian beavers captured in Norway and quarantined for months were released into freshwater lochs in Knapdale Forest, Argyll. No beaver had lived in Scotland for over 400 years. More than 10 million people encountered the story within days.
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Sources & References:
📄 Beaver Salmonid Working Group (2015). Final Report of the Beaver Salmonid Working Group. Prepared for The National Species Reintroduction Forum, Inverness. https://www.gov.scot/publications/bea…
📄 Jones, S. & Campbell-Palmer, R. (2014). The Scottish Beaver Trial: The Story of Britain’s First Licensed Release into the Wild. Final Report. Scottish Wildlife Trust & RZSS.
📄 Taylor, H.R. et al. (2024). The genetic legacy of the first successful reintroduction of a mammal to Britain. Evolutionary Applications, 17, e13629. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles…
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