154a Not A Vlog: Yardley Gobion to Stoke Bruerne bottom lock
Real-time “slow TV” footage from the bow of my narrowboat as I travelled from Yardley Gobion to Stoke Bruerne bottom lock.
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Vlog 154: The Ghost of Blisworth Past
After several days at Yardley Gobion, during which time I had the boatyard opposite look at – and hopefully fix – the diesel leak, I carried on with my return journey up the Grand Union canal, going back through Gayton, up the Stoke Bruerne locks and up through Blisworth tunnel (no signs of any ghosts this time round).
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Vlog 143: September Sun
My autumn jaunt along the Grand Union canal continues as I take the boat from Stoke Bruerne (where I can’t get a decent 4G mobile signal) towards Cosgrove but I end up mooring in the lovely countryside. En route there’s an awful lot of pretty countryside to stare at.
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Vlog 142: The Ghost of Blisworth Tunnel
In this video I take my narrowboat on the Grand Union canal from near Gayton Junction to Stoke Bruerne, via Blisworth – and Blisworth tunnel – all 3,075 yards of it. Weirdly, as I went through, there was a bit of an unsettling ghostly apparition…
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Vlog 58: Through the Porthole
In which I travel – by car – to a legendary canal village and meet the inhabitants both human (should that be “hooman”?) and animal of the narrowboat Ewart and find out what brought them to the waterways.
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