Warwickshire man spends £30,000 building his own canal in his garden

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A Warwickshire man has spent £30,000 building his own canal in his garden - complete with a functioning lock system and a narrowboat converted into a swimming pool.

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00:00I wanted to buy a narrowboat first and foremost so when I bought the narrowboat I thought I've

00:10got no way to keep it so I'm just gonna put it here right on some plinths and a certain

00:17person wasn't very happy about it so I thought mmm I'm gonna have to hide it now you try hiding a

00:23narrowboat so my next idea was to build a wall so I didn't want to build just the wall I thought

00:28I might as well build like a little patio area or something and I thought oh what it needs is a lock

00:36and I thought not just a lock it needs company it needs the whole ensemble of cottage tunnel

00:43and obviously as you can see one thing's led to another led to another initially it was like

00:47are you gonna manage to do it is it gonna look right is it gonna be realistic and I thought

00:55all it's made out of is rubber sleepers and then the lock arms themselves are made of

01:01scaffolding boards that I've just simply glued together and to replicate a lock arm

01:08to create this drip effect this waterfall effect behind that is just simply a copper tube

01:15with holes in it with a simple pump it's clearly a very amateurish

01:22unprofessional but it fools everyone

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