Tag: Lichfield

Bonus Video: Huddle Up!

Posted on September 24, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Very much a quick bonus video, this is a compilation of shots taken at the bi-annual Huddlesford Heritage event, a fundraiser for the Lichfield & Hatherton Canal Trust, to give you the flavour of the day.

Vlog 310: Routemasters

Posted on September 8, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

In 2019, I made a video about the restoration of the Lichfield canal, which had been ongoing for several decades, powered largely by volunteers and donations. So many people asked me for an update that I’ve now gone back to see what’s changed and whether the pandemic brought things to a halt.

Bonus video: Slow TV cruise

Posted on April 10, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is not a vlog, there’s no talking or music (deliberately) – it is a “slow TV” uninterrupted recording from the bow camera of the electric day-hire boat seen in video 293 doing the return journey from Tamhorn Farm Bridge to Kings Orchard Marina on the Coventry canal near Lichfield.

Vlog 293: Amped Up

Posted on April 4, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

An all-electric narrowboat is now available for hire by the day so it’s a low-cost way to test the waters of near-silent narrowboating and leave no air pollution in your wake.

Vlog 218: The Great Escape

Posted on June 27, 2020February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is the vlog version of the trip shown in real-time in the last video; I leave Kings Orchard Marina near Lichfield and head north up the Coventry canal to Fradley Junction where it rains a lot and I moor above the locks.

Vlog 217: Not a vlog at all

Posted on June 22, 2020February 24, 2024 by David Johns

A “slow TV” (real-time) bow-camera recording of the trip from Kings Orchard Marina at Lichfield to Fradley Junction on June 21st 2020.

Vlog 214: A Cruise to Amuse

Posted on May 18, 2020February 24, 2024 by David Johns

On Wednesday 13th May, the lockdown restrictions on the English waterways were relaxed slightly to permit day trips for leisure boaters. So I took the opportunity to fire up the narrowboat and do a five-hour cruise down towards Fazeley Junction and back.

Vlog 187: Digging Deep

Posted on August 28, 2019February 24, 2024 by David Johns

A few weeks ago, I cruised past what remains of the Lichfield canal, now used by the Lichfield Cruising Club, and mentioned that the canal is under restoration. In this vlog I’ve been to meet the team who are heading up that restoration and see the scale of the works underway.