93. Fradley to Shugborough via Rugeley and Great Haywood on my canal narrowboat
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2017
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In this vlog, I move on from Fradley Junction, take a sharp 90 degree turn to the right and start heading North West, still on the Trent and Mersey canal, up towards Shugborough. En route, I get a haircut in Rugeley, go past the Staffs and Worcester canal at Great Haywood, and despair of the plastic waste drifting along the canal.
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Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the RUclips music library
Goodness David, why do I feel so moved? Is it the captivating scenery, the curious history, the lovely peace, the ease of movement, your aloof, carefree, snail like existence and leisurely uneventfulness which thrills and moves me to tears? Perhaps......it's all of them. Many thanks for sharing.
What a lovely comment, thank you. Glad you enjoy them.
Legends tell of a great, ghostly power station, that pulls itself up in the dead of night to stealthily creep about the canal routes....😆
That must be it!
I LOVE your dry sense of humor David! And your videos, they are lovely and so informative!
Thanks for all your hard work..Cherrio👌🏻
Excellent, tranquility at its best. I have to be honest, I do envy you a little.
Fantastic vlog as always. Very much appreciated, thank you!
Cheers Glen
I discovered your channel just yesterday and have just finished watching your entire collection. Pretty much back to back. With the exception of the odd break to put the kettle on and a sleep. I am not a narrowboat owner myself, I am more of an inshore small fishing boat kind of chap. The call of the open sea you might say. That being said, My old dad did have a 32ft senior cabin cruiser on the calder and Hebble navigation when I was young. Many a peaceful day cruising from Calder Grove Wakefield to Lincoln.
I love the videos, extremely addictive and informative viewing. The professional journalistic influences and skills you employ in these vlogs are a credit to both your former vocation and an inspiration I'm sure to many who would be considering taking to the water, or simply making You Tube content themselves.
Great work. Thanks for sharing and I'm looking forward following your adventure......
That's a lovely comment and an impressive viewing marathon too! Thank you :-)
Yes, I am sitting with my mug of earl gray tea near to my left hand. Thanks for all you do! TM who likes the canals
As always I look forward to your blogs. Thank you for all the work you do to bring us along. Safe journey.
Cheers Clare
weather turned but still lovely on a narrowboat with the fire going and a mug of steaming hot tea. Great scenery filmed - thankyou 🎀
Exquisitely pretty where 'the canal speaks for itself'.
Such sights are sufficient to cause ancestral legacies in an old Aussie a measure of longing to visit places ancient racial memories hold in the deepest vaults of being.
The canal does speak for itself, it says I am beautiful, love me ...and we do.
Your canal system is a national treasure.
You're absolutely right.
So beautiful. I long to visit England again. Too old now to travel by plane, so your videos are a gift to me. The trash in the water enrages me. I want to take the culprits and shake them till their teeth fall out.
Another winning blog. I am watching you from Vancouver, BC in Canada
Vancouver is on my "will visit one day" list!
Hi, I am an American, Cabin Cruiser type boater, that is getting older and learning to appreciate the slower simpler life that the narrowboats seen to represent. Really enjoying your channel.
Cheers Doug
I too wish your episodes were longer. ☺️ Lovely as always David. Thank you.
It just depends on what happens and how it all ends up cut :-)
Great really David...thnk you so much....im italian and i watching you from tenerife
Thank you for watching!
As usual, your videos are great! I'd love to take a year off of work and explore the canals, simply because your videos are so grand! Well done sir!
Do it! ;-)
That is exactly on my mind as well. Next year, I am coming to Britain although just for a few weeks to explore at least one canal.
Excellent
Love your humour - I agree about the Stephen King novel bit!😄
Thanks David, another entertaining episode 😃👍👏👏👏👏
Nice haircut David, dapper as a freshly painted bollard!
well filmed....good vocabulary...good prononciation...I have never been in England and with you I improve your langage...I am french
Thank you Bernard
You haven’t mentioned his perfect diction too!
You are getting better and better at this vlog stuff CTC !! Looking forward to seeing the next one !
Glad you enjoy it, cheers!
Nothing but miserable grey, wet and chilly weather here. Gets me right in the bronchials. Choke choke. Makes for dreadful inertia and ennui. So a touch of lovely canal side is much appreciated. Duckies! Sheep! And that stonking great Hall has a herd of cows to mow the lawn. Must be nice.
Oh yes indeed.
What a beautiful stretch you had today! bravo! for picking up garbage on your way! you're a gem!
I am, aren't I? ;-)
that water was smooth as glass... making for great reflections of the trees and buildings... photographers dream shot... great video....haircut makes you look younger too...... :-)
Haha, do you think?!
I really chuckled at your commentary in the "really tight bit" I admit I laughed out loud indeed.
Thanks David, it's great to see some of my favourite places again!
Cheers Keiran
3:36 the idea of a massive power station stalking you through the countryside absolutely slays me
another amazing Vlog. my wife and I are considering living aboard and we are finding your Vlogs very helpful so thankyou. who knows we may see you on the cut... keep them coming !!!
Hope your plans work out, cheers!
For this not being a "scenery" episode, that was some of the nicest I've seen.
Just imagine if I make a scenery compilation from it!
Beautiful section of canal.
Stunning scenery, I can almost smell the country air.
It can be a bit pongy sometimes though.
Thanks for taking us along!
Cheers
Love the picturesque canal footage! Thank you for the vlog.
Cheers
Beautiful as always. Glad you spared us the plastic litter.
:-)
I needed to finish packing for another trip from home for work, but had to stop and watch. Now double time to finish my packing. Thanks for a nice quiet start to my day! Wonderful as always.
:-) Cheers Meg
The railway companies purchased the canals to transport the building materials, ballast, sleepers and rails, for building the railways, They then closed the canals to eliminate the competition.This is why there are railway lines adjacent to the canals. Also, the canals followed the contours of the land and made it easier build the railways, without spending moneys of additional surveying.
That's how the national highway system in the US came in to being, but it was the roads following the railways, especially in the south where small canals aren't really a thing unless it's for water supply.
finally caught up with you. great travelogue. thanks.
Thanks for watching. More soon!
I say I was having a glass of cold ice tea while watching this video. I truly enjoy watching your narrow boat cruising. It's so British....there's nothing like it in the States.
Thank you!
My only grandson is named HAYWOOD, so I was so pleased to see. Great Haywood.... Love the ducks so very much.
FANTASTIC!!! lovely balance, thanks Cheers and as always God bless
Thanks William
Love the videos. I have a friend who while I was stationed at Mendenhall AFB, let me use 1 of those boats, even thou it was 1/2 the length. I would travel for a month, when I had a chance. Enjoyed it immensely.
Great vlog very enjoyable your getting ever closer to that Harecastle tunnel. That will be a nervy adventure. But until then enjoy the great scenery. Been a great pick me up on a cold wet Tuesday cheers for uploading
Shhhh .... just between you and me, I did the Harecastle some weeks back (there's a delay on the Vlogs); it was fine!
CruisingTheCut well glad it went well and you got through Stoke unscathed (I imagine you have a new champion for rubbish floating in the canal). Did you manage to get all the orange gunk off your boat from the water once u got through the tunnel? That stuffs a right pain if it drys
Man love your vids and yes agree with Al t, would love to get my passport and come over and just spend a year touring around the canals, one day. The dream lives on. Keep up the great vids!
One day!
The scenery is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it with us. Your hair cut is also very pleasing to the eye. I hope you're ok in this wind and rain - it feels like winter again today.
I had the fire on again last night!
Very enjoyable as ever 👍
Thank you
Great stuff, as usual, David. But we miss you here!
Thank you. Any signs of the bank being piled or otherwise sorted?!
Love your vlog. Thanks for sharing your terrific lifestyle.
Thank you for watching :-)
That scenery was nearly too beutiful, I`d get diabetis is the eyes, it is so sweet. Thanks for sharing
Glad you liked it.
Tea sipped, lunch ready, shugborough added to the list of places I will wave my national trust card at when some form of normality returns. May be just one more vlog before I retire for an afternoon nap (pre night shift). I seem to have nearly reached triple figures in the last week! It's been lovely too see the random corners of the country you can get to by canal. Thank you!
As always, lovely sceneries.
:-)
Beautiful country side again, David for the narrow bits, breath in, breath out, relax.
Enjoy.
Better?
Cheers
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Stunning scenery, thanks for sharing. Nice haircut.
:-)
Love your vlogs. So great to "travel" around the canals with you. Looking forward to the next episode:-)
Thank you
As a Canadian we do speak English, however not like you do. It is very refreshing to hear English spoken properly and to me, it adds a lot to the overall experience. Thank you.
One of my favourite stretches of canal that I have travelled on. The Armitage Tunnel looked pretty scary:even worse if you are negotiating it solo. A lovely video with superb commentary. Beautiful scenery. By chance I was drinking tea when you instructed me to do so during a montage.Thank you
Nice video, as always!
I wouldn't mind to see more of the "busy work". Like fastening the boat when you stop, preparing a meal, talking to people (if they agree to be on the video...)
This would also mean we get to see more of your boat. =)
I know this a lot of additional work, so I wouldn't be terribly sad if you can't or don't want to do it.
I barely cook so nothing to show there. The trouble with filming tying up is that I need to do it, not film it :-) sometimes I get other people on camera though. All points noted!
Thank you for great video.You are for sure travel in some very nice nature along the canal.
Glad you like it; yes, it was a beautiful stretch of canal.
the canal views(sort of like tree tunnels) are breathtaking ...so many pretty scenes along the way...and variety of nature bounty ..and friendly people. ..sign me up😏❤
You like tree tunnels? You're going to love the footage from the Staffs & Worcester!
I am addicted to your vlog , always waiting in anticipation of the next , so much better than the crap on the Telly , thank you for posting.
Thank you!
Another great vlog. A very great shot @1:59 so tranquil. Great job and can't wait for the next video
Thanks
Armitage famous for its Armitage shanks bathroom fittings and one of the sponsers of the " loo of the year" award.. Thanks David.
I wondered if it was the same Armitage. Is it really?
Yes It was actually founded in Armitage and is now the largest of 8 factories.
I love your scenery shots...
Thank you!
Awesome video David . that was some beautiful countryside. thank you for sharing
Cheers Tom
Lovely, much slower pace than my life . Quite envious !
:-)
I'm from Denmark and I've seen all of you Vlog.... Love to keep track of your life on the canal
Thank you :-)
Another great vlog in the life of your daily trips along the canal system David :-)
Ta Russ
Shugadelic, baby! Yeah! I think you are a Austin Powers fan. Lovely way to start my weekend, watching the vlog while I sip on my morning cuppa. Darjeeling by the way. Thank you for the journey.
what a wonderful scenery
:-)
Ah at last a bit of the canal I know as I have walked along the tow path. Great vlog and lovely scenery!
Cheers Sally
That narrow bit made me so anxious!
Try being the one doing the driving!!
CruisingTheCut Id rather not!
I enjoy waking up to one of your older vlogs each day. Thank you for your videos
Another great vlog, thanks !
Ta
As usual, very pleasant and your cinematography skills seem to be improving capturing the sunlight reflect effect and all those other nice shots. When I see what has been happening in the UK the past fortnight which frustrates me but I also see your tranquil moments you share with us which calms me. Thanks.
Thank you
What a splendid video, and it was lovely to see Great Haywood, which was the boatyard (Anglo Welsh Boats in those days) where we started from on my very first canal holiday, back in the 1970s. We went down the Staffs & Worcs rather than the Trent & Mersey, though, and also spent a while on the Shropshire Union. Thank you for bringing back happy memories, although, truthfully, all your videos do that, simply by showing our canals!
Beautiful!! My paternal family was from that area. My Grandad worked the coal mines under the Cannock Chase. My Dad born in Rugeley would pedal bike to Cannock for his studies. I would visit my Gran in Hednesford in her later years. Had a few pub lunches and a pint or two at the Ash Tree Pub on the canal (not sure if it is still there). Thanks for relighting my memories from my younger years. Currently working in Afghanistan and hope to revisit again some day and possibly holiday on the canals. I enjoy 'traveling' along with you. My best kind Sir.
A viewer in Afghanistan? Wow! Thanks for watching, glad it rekindles good memories.
Thank you for another brilliant vlog David. What a beautiful canal! I love the scenery so never feel you have to keep it short. Hope you're tucked away in a part of the canal that's not too windy.
Rather blowy tonight but hopefully moored securely!
Good to see the old spots...Thank you Comdr.🌞
great blog David its great to see the canal form your boat.
Glad you're enjoying it :-)
Wonderful video all that gorgeous countryside
Ta
fabulous as always. I meant the haircut too of course! lovely to see some familiar scenery, having lived in Stafford 🏞 Shugborough is well worth a visit in case anyone wants to know!🏛
The haircut seems to be getting approval, I shall have to return to Alrewas next time it's due!
CruisingTheCut maybe leave them a nice review on their Facebook if they have one?:)
Gud, as ever. Black cat was very much appreciated
:-)
Brilliant Video, Thanks Cruising..... :)
Cheers Harry
Hi, afraid it's me again.
Just viewed the latest vlog. It brings many memories as my my wife and I holidayed a couple of weeks ago on the Trent and Mersey canal in a narrowboat from Mercia marina (Willington) upto Stone and back following the same route. We were very luck as we saw quite a few swans with their cygnets, ducks with their chicks and moorhens with their whatever. The scenery is just beautiful along this stretch of the canal. We turned around at Stone using the winding hole just before the first lock up into town, it was very busy here with a very long line of boats moored up.
If you have not got there yet beware there is a very deep lock somewhere near the Caldon canal, you will need a long center line if I remember correctly. Good luck with the rest of your cruise and we are already looking forward to the installment.
Cheers.
Hi. Glad you enjoyed your holiday. I'm long past the deep locks at Etruria but thank you :-)
Time = 10:20; "Have a sip of your tea while we meander gently...." Strange as strange is I DO have a cup of tea! LOL
Shugborough is well worth a visit. Very interesting house and servant quarters.
There is an impressive stone pedestrian bridge with lots of arches across the river to get to the house from the canal.
The nice bridge you mentioned was built for the owner to drive his horse and carriage over the canal when going to church in the village.
I will do much the same when I win the lottery.
So, in the first video of yours I ever watched, you had just gotten a haircut...
I've since watched your videos about living on a canal boat and this popped up as a recommendation...
And you're talking about a haircut again!
Oh I do enjoy these videos :D Now to actually watch and enjoy the rest of it!
And what a lovely, calming video it was. Really did enjoy it, thank you!
Haircuts are important ;-)
Oooh, hark at you! ;-)
Thanks for ya narrative’s ,very informative making your vlogs very interesting. I feel as though I am on the boat .
Very nice wood lands surrounding the canal. The narrowness of some of the bridges is astounding...thus the "narrow boat" I suppose. Nice video thanks!
Cheers Peter
Thumbs up! We enjoyed the scenery in this VLog very much. Thanks for sharing the cruising life. Nice haircut, by the way. Cheers from Vermont, US, Maggie & Dave
Thanks, both!
its pretty cool to see great haywood through a boat, i live in great haywood and regularly visit the canal
Glad you liked it.
Best ever vlog, loved the musical interludes.
Thanks
As always a fantastic vlog. Nice to see you in our area. Hope you enjoy your trip. 😉
I did, very much!
Love the vlogs! I eagerly watch for each new one. I especially like the views of the canal banks and the countryside. My sister and I spent almost three weeks in your country in 1999 and loved every minute of it. Keep the vlogs coming! Thanks. Transplanted Michigander now living in Indiana. (No, I am not Deni Porter - that's my daughter. Couldn't figure out how to change my comment to my own name. )
Hi. Glad you enjoy them, thanks for watching :-)
this one was very relaxing.
Good
Loved it.Thanks
:-)
My husband won’t entertain living permanently on a boat, so I’m living with you, via your channel. Hope you’re ok with having me as a virtual stowaway.
Not at all; make yourself comfortable ;-)
CruisingTheCut pulls up a comfy chair and fills a glass. Throws another log on the fire and settles down.
Beautiful footage. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
Again beautiful.
Some very pretty sights.
Another good one David, thanks very much. Mikron boat is from my neck of the woods at Marsden. Stanedge tunnel on the Huddersfield narrow.
I didn't know it was based there - cheers