Simple living on a narrowboat home in West End London

I don’t know where this young lady was educated but, sadly, it seems that her school education didn’t include our social history, the importance of Britain’s canal waterways and their role in the Industrial Revolution. If it did, she’d gain a deeper appreciation of her narrowboat home and its origins.
This is only a very brief outline of the canal systems in Britain, and it’s a fascinating part of our history to explore further if you are interested.
Narrowboats were originated in the 18th century, during the Industrial Revolution as working boats for use on Britain’s narrow canal waterways to transfer goods. Originally, they were horse-drawn boats, hence why we still refer to the canal-side paths as “tow-paths” even though today’s narrowboats are mostly diesel-powered.
During the canals’ working history, people would live and work on the narrowboats as they took their cargoes from one place to another; it was a hard life but whole families were born and raised on the narrowboats, right up to the decline of the canal waterways in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Hundreds of miles of canals became derelict. In the 1960s, volunteers of all ages came forward and gave their time to renovate the canal waterways, and volunteers continue to do so. We owe a lot to them (including members of the towpath task-force and the lock keepers) of the Waterway Recovery Group and the Canal & River Trust, who work hard to restore and maintain the canals for other people’s enjoyment, whether that be walking or cycling the tow-paths or enjoying leisure time or living on the canals.

London has a problem with air quality which is often blamed on diesel engines yet her "woodburner" which appears to be burning coal causes terrible pollution.

I don't like all the tat, though. I like the clean and tidy boats.

That bed looks so comfy.
I'd be roasting garlic and rosemary with onions, in the wood burner. Keep it for cooking later.

Funny how the comments are drastically different on this video vs the one with the family in Portland... people are ridiculous.

"I just type things"

Distance pictures make it looks like a bit of a slim area - rows of boats - all past their use by dates - hope you like I could not image anything worse than living in the heart of a polluted city - stinky dirty stagnant canal water - I'd steer well clear of any big city Birmingham included.

you take really nice photos when you are inside these very tiny places, what lense do you use if you could tell me. thank you .

If she wants more space, she should remove half the stuff she has inside the narrow boat. She'll only wind up collecting more things, if she gets a bigger place or an additional boat. Looks like a fun place to live and her plants on top of the boat look beautiful.

A narrowboat is up to 70 feet long and a maximum of 6 foot 10 inches wide

i lived on a narrowboat for 6 years..it caused me to divorce the arsehole in my life...miss the boat but not the arse...its not easy living in a 6ft pencil box

Love her. Too small for me, but I rented a house bus once and had to do some of the things she has to do. Was great, but way more space. Go her. I love her view on life. =)

she thinks its good to have some sort of hardship. id say she is far from hard up. everything is practicaly vintage on that boat and she is wearing a whole dead animal and they are not cheap. from a town house to an expensive narrow boat fully mored in london?...still, i love the life on boats.

I live just the other side of St Johns wood park and often walk that stretch, it looks very chilled out......Looking to buy a narrow boat myself to live on, but to mainly cruise during the summer months..

Ever sleep in one of these while in London

How do you live in all that clutter !! That candle really worries me !!

cool lady hi lady

Who is this lady is she on Twitter?

Great insight