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Awesome look back at Narrowboat history.
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fascinating ,peados were thin on the ground in those days ,even down london way
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Back when you could take a clown shoe up a wicky for a two day double camp.
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alan partridge stole this for a whole show
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what a fantastic film,
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I think the narrator of this film was Trevor Lucas (then an ultra-smooth announcer for ATV).
This BTF documentary depicts the uses made of the inland waterways in the early 1960s. The boats and fashions have changed and the commercial traffic using narrow boats has all but gone, but much else is unchanged. The Zoo Water Bus still navigates the Regents Canal. Hire boats for partying, although bankers these days will want more spectacular venues than the Bank of Bangkok staff of 1962 experienced. There is still a trip boat at Newark, though it does not offer a five day trip form Nottingham to Lincoln as featured n this film. There are some changes with the passage of time . Upton on Severn Water Festival has down graded from an ox roast to a pig roast and Coventry Cathedral is not new any more. Download this film, without idents obscuring the picture at http://video.eavb.co.uk/