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Hello from the Midlands canal network

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Welcome from a fellow accordionist with canal boating ancestry. Mostly on the Yorkshire side of my English dad’s family, but his father’s paternal side goes back to the West Midlands, especially around West Bromwich. Happy canal boating and happy squeezing!
 
vivdunstan said:
Welcome from a fellow accordionist with canal boating ancestry. Mostly on the Yorkshire side of my English dad’s family, but his father’s paternal side goes back to the West Midlands, especially around West Bromwich. Happy canal boating and happy squeezing!
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Ah wow...what was their surname, if you don't mind me asking? That's cool. Sorry to have derailed the thread a bit - this is really interesting too, though! (Were they also musicians...?)
 
Dirtybluebells said:
I want to learn to play piano accordion well enough to not wreck a casual jam session.
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sounds like proper ambition! good luck 💪:p
Dingo40 said:
I don't know if anyone else here has seen this series but it was played free to air on local TV here and I managed to view a few episodes: I enjoyed it!🙂
Great Canal Journeys: Series 1-5 Boxset [DVD]
https://amzn.asia/d/fmHwKAn

Great Canal Journeys - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Funny, I never knew this was a thing until I saw this series:



(only because I was into the IOMTT at the time)
 
jozz said:
sounds like proper ambition! good luck 💪:p

Funny, I never knew this was a thing until I saw this series:



(only because I was into the IOMTT at the time)
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Thanks! I've tried with the bad condition accordion I have, neither me nor it are good enough currently and it tends to butcher everything for everyone else (a patient lot, thankfully!) so some considerable work to do! But that feels like a wonderful adventure. Got to do something with our time on the planet, eh? 😁
 
jozz said:
sounds like proper ambition! good luck 💪:p

Funny, I never knew this was a thing until I saw this series:



(only because I was into the IOMTT at the time)
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Gotta get this Guy on accordions.
 
Dirtybluebells said:
Ah wow...what was their surname, if you don't mind me asking? That's cool. Sorry to have derailed the thread a bit - this is really interesting too, though! (Were they also musicians...?)
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My West Midlands bunch were surname Moore. I've traced them back to the very early 1700s, amusingly at Moor End, West Bromwich! But they weren't canal boat workers, unlike some of my Yorkshire ancestors.

We don't know if the West Bromwich bunch were musical. My granddad was estranged from his dad from a young age. But granddad (in Yorkshire) played the concertina, though we know there was a lot of music playing on his Irish mother's side of the family. When I finally met my Irish cousins in Dublin I was quizzing them intently about any music in the family! And yes there were multiple accordionists as well as other stuff.
 
JeffJetton said:
Looks like [Great Canal Journeys is] also streamable on Amazon Prime. Just added it to my watchlist. (And hey... that's the guy from "Last Tango in Halifax"!)
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Well we're officially hooked. We've gone through the first season series and are halfway through the second. Seriously pondering a UK canal vacation now....

(And hey... that's the guy from "All Creatures Great and Small"!)
 
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