Taking our NARROWBOAT home through Heartbreak Hill, Harecastle Tunnel and to Stoke's Potteries! | 43
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2023
- EPISODE 43
Join us for an adventure on our off grid narrowboat home! This week we get to Stoke. We tackle Heartbreak Hill (a set of 31 locks which we had started on last week), pass through Harecastle tunnel (a 1.6 mile/ 2600m long tunnel 195m underground!), do plenty of cruising and take a trip to Middleport Pottery!
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Love this channel. I had forgotten that this type of life is still possible in england & this type of englishness is alive and well. Nothing fake, just real life.
Agreed....
There's a properly 'hippy' early Pink Floyd vibe to this channel, which as an ancient 65-year old child of the 60s/70s I absolutely love! 👍✌️✌️😎
Don’t know which I love more…the views in the video, you guys as a couple or Benny’s music!
A Saturday night treat watching your video. Looking forward to the next one. Stay safe and healthy all.
I hope you guys make a mil on this channel! It’s the best and you’re making everyone feel good!
Thanks so much! 😊
Really love the first tune! Goes so well with the filming
Your tastes Emily and Ben are cultured and very satisfying.Your appreciated.
Thanks guys! My wife was so inspired by this episode that she insisted we visit the Middleport Pottery on our narrow boat trip ... if she buys anything, I'm blaming you 🤣
Enjoying some of your classic oldies.
Hello lovely people, good to see you!
You are an amazing couple really enjoying life.
Just seen my In-laws' wedding photo on the wall at Middleport Pottery. And the person on the video wall talking in the bedroom is my wife! She used to work at middleport pottery whist she was at college and her mum worked there full time. They lived just round the corner - Its a great place - shame about the weather - typical of Stoke. Really enjoy the videos - keep up with the good work
Benny as a retired musician your songs have a real 70s David Bowie vibe,I love it
Yep, I thought the exact same thing.
I think he is still active, not retired. All the music used on the vlog is his.
Aww thank you 😊 I am a Bowie fan, but hope I bring some originality as well! I do have my own music channel under @bennyjones if you are interested 😊
I was thinking early Genesis
T. rex.
This is my fav Narrowboat CZcams channel
Wait... there's lasagne?!? Emily's beard game is 100% better than mine will ever be 😆
18:25 That mould on the right looks as if it's turning and watching you walk past it. Spooky.
Watching you go through all those locks is exhausting. I feel like I’m right there with you. No wonder you’re tired Emily. Give Alan a nice pet for me. I have four cats myself. All rescues.
Thanks so mich for watching! Aww 4! I'm jealous! 😻
Kitty is so calm
Another amazing episode, where do you get all your strength Emily? So exhausting, we loved the Historic pottery tour. My wife's ancestors worked in the trade back when and she always dreamed of Narrow Boating while on Holiday. Do you take on passengers? A big affectionate scratch for Allen, she's such a show stopper. Thanks for sharing!
Loved the tunnels strange vegetation, the food and the pottery. Oh and if course Alan supervising!! 😀 You guys must be fit doing all those locks!!
Nice one guys. Emily's visit to Middleport Potteries was interesting and educational. Alan's contribution was more cute-based than anything else. Benny's soundtrack was superb. You're all superstars in your own rights. thank you. 😀😃xxx
Thanks so much for the lovely comment! So glad you enjoyed our trip this week 😊x
I always think when you sort thing out think about the last time you used it if it was more than 3 months ago then perhaps you don't need it!! it is iron oxidisation it is like a thing with iron and water ......that food looks incredible......you are both good cooks you think up extremly tasty food it always loooks better than mine you 2 are the tops thanks for sharing your life I love your films xxxxx thanks debbie not dave xxxxx
Love your work! It's my Sunday morning virtual hug, and God knows in these times everyone needs a hug. Thank you for the efforts you put in every week, you're making thousands of people happy for a while.
Yes, agreed 😊
Can you imagine having to leg it through the tunnel for a mile and a half, on your back lay on a plank. 👍👍
Thanks for the video guys.
My Grand Dad Did Many Times Gran Took The Horse Around
Really enjoyed the video, very down to earth and as I live in the area I enjoyed your comments 😊
yes - lots of edukayshun in this one - and all very interesting - thank you both. my husband was waiting for Benny to do a song about really dry sandwiches
AlAN IS A STAR ...I love how she is so serene and completely at home aboard or exploring the shoreside environment. Love the video and how you use those cutaway shots.
Thank you so much Paul 😊 Really appreciate the lovely comment 🌟
Absolutely love your vlogs someone we watch when they see a bird or something labels what they are just an idea I know it means someone taking extra time still non the less love the vids 😊
I love the hood on your coat Emily. Its very South Park. Wow you guys pack a load in and so wonderfully done too. Have a great week. Cheers
Enjoying your travels , adventures music thanks for sharing
FUN ADVENTURES, LOTS OF LOCKS, AND GOOD MUSIC!!!! ALWAYS APPRECIATE THE RIDE YA ALL , ITS A SUNNY DAY IN THE STATES, DID SOME LAND MOWING THIS AFTERNOON AND ENJOYED THE SUNSHINE. SPRING HAS ARRIVED. SAFE AND HAPPY TRAVELS.... TAKE A BREAK EMILY... LOLOL. PEACE
The Earl of Sandwich checks under his bed for your snack.
Lovely long video, that was so relaxing, thanks guys.
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Alan is so cute! ❤
Be thankful you had an engine - they used to ‘leg it’ through the there previously, and it took about 3hrs!!
Maybe when you finally get the boat out of the water for a paint you can put storage lockers in the back so you don’t have to put so much on top of the boat.
One of our neighbors growing up owned a pottery shop and I worked for them for a time in my teens pouring ceramics. I'd pour the slip (liquid ceramic) into the molds, let the molds absorb the water from the slip, keep the molds topped off as the slip dried, pour out the excess slip once it reached the desired thickness on the inside of the molds, let the ceramic (called greenware at this point) dry for a while inside the mold, then open the molds, remove the greenware, clean the molds, and put the molds back in storage. Some greenware came in two pieces and I would attach the pieces together, like a cup handle onto a cup, using a bit of slip as a kind of cement. They had electric kilns for customers to use after they bought, painted, and glazed their greenware into ceramics. Very messy, laborious work.
I really wish you would post every day. 😂🤦🏼♀️. Love your videos!
Hello 👋 this is lovely, cheered me up ,Hello beautiful Alan 😍
There’s nothing weird about being excited by your new wet-vac, I was the same the first time I got a Dyson! 🤣
The trick to a good chip sandwich is the squish
Ben, your voice reminds me so much of Neil Young :) I would love to hear you sing your version of his track “Old Man”
Thanks once again for the great video with brilliant music from Benny. It's the only way I'm going to see the inside of the tunnel, but we will certainly pay a visit to Middleport Pottery after seeing your tour. 😁
Yay chip sandwich! One of the four major food groups!
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Benny boy, the song at 30 minutes in, you got it, keep up that style.
Em hits the locks like a pro, no dramas👍👍👍GIRLS GET IT DONE! 💖💖
Harecastle tunnel had people called leggers who lay on top of the barges with their legs on the tunnel and leg it through the tunnel
Love crisp sandwiches lol. Loving the vlogs. Take care
Emily’s crisp and hummus sandwich review 👌🏻.. all the enthusiasm of a disappointed Gordon Ramsey 😂
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Great vlogyou all did so well yes crisp sarnies are hard to get down had my share of a fair few in hard times tc now 🤗👍👋🌷
Horror Tunnel survived! 😄
Good boating skills parking up right next to the pub! I like looking at other peoples gardens as you sail past, some great ideas. I have a canal at the bottom of my garden that is in the process of being re-opened and I'm getting lots of ideas for my decking/mooring. I quite fancy a goat or a cow!
Maybe see you two cruising past when it eventually joins the rest of the canal system. 👋👋
Oh, and also, try not to stand on top of your engine. The injector pipes run across the top of it, they are quite easy to break/cause to leak, and an absolute pain to fix.
alan is a well travelled cat, love the tunnel shots, great video and music guys ☺😺🪕
Thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed the video 😊
Thanks. Good music.
Another brilliant video guys ❤️❤️🚐🚐 xx
The holes in the sides of the tunnel would be used as protection for the miners when they were blasting.
I always look forward to your videos... Always a mixture of humour and excellent content.... plus a bit of banjo at the end - Thanks
Hi to you both the pottery huose took me back to when i was living and growing up just outside Liverpool we lived in a house just like the old pottery house . Parents and three kids, we left there about 1951 i was ten years old moved to Leicester my mom and dad lived their last few years in a house just like that in the 70s the house is gone now life was not all roses back then but we did not know better, So thanks for the trip Take care and stay safe look after Alan she is so cool Ed 40 S of Vegas XXXX
Museum looks so interesting… we must visit 😊
Cheered me up ❤
absolutely love the music soundtrack!!
Thanks so much!
To the both of you😘
So, imagine you've got an RC narrowboat? I think it would be so cool to just walk alongside the boat, remote in hand, doing the locks as you walk along.......Alan inside, watching you exercise. Writing her first book "How Ben & Emily Exercise -A Spectator's Guide" 😁
Also, I just love all the travel you capture. So many lovely towns.
😆 Brilliant, I love this idea! Thanks for watching as always 😻 So glad you're enjoying the videos!
I saw a video here on CZcams of someone doing exactly that. She could steer her narrow boat with a wireless remote control. Very handy for doing the locks especially for one crew boats...
Watching these shows I think you have more Canada Geese in England than we have here in Canada!
@@BenandEmily Right? Such a cool thing! Especially when you add the thrusters on the sides, so mooring, or just boarding is also a breeze. Never have to mind gaps, after a couple beers. Huge fan here, as you can tell! 😄
@@xerox8080 Exactly. I forget her name, but I know just who you mean. She runs the boat entirely alone. There are systems available. Or, if you're smart, and resourceful, and let's be honest, a bit nerdy, you can make your own system. (Or talk to James Bruton here on CZcams. He would probably design a great system, that would be very cost-effective, and mostly 3-D printed. He has an entire farm of printers, and prints large parts, and small. He would do it just for a challenge, fun, and great content for his own channel) I've even seen people home-build electric boats navigated on autopilot by satellite, on open waters. Set a bunch of waypoints, and the boat does the rest. I wouldn't try any of that on canals, but thrusters placed strategically, and a fully remote control capable system, would just be amazing.
Love your videos. - Love Alan. - Ain't it a shame those old 'Twin-Locks' are neglected & sad ruins when they would be so useful .. but that seems to be the way lately. The Billionaires get richer while the place crumbles to crap.
I did You were so brave under the tunnel, where be them little scorpions with very hot tails in there. cheers stay safe.
Hello You Three - greetings from Poland.
That was a fantastic video. Full of loads of interesting things to see and do. Locks and a tunnel made for some exciting filming. Alan of course took everything in her stride - what a star.
See you again next week. In the meantime, stay safe please.
Hi Michael! Yes ut was quite acting packed this week! We are certainly on the move! Hope you are well 😊 ❤️
you are both well travelled ! full moon is good here ...
Kerr has a peachy t shirt i have forgotten what you told me at the moment. sleepy 🐾🐾 Betsy & BeBe
So love your super relaxed life...
Your vlog is my "chill out" video. Thanks so much! Loved seeing the 1950's again, and the house. Ours was an old log house, with the "dog trot" enclosed. Low ceilings helped keep it warm. Logs were over a foot thick, covered with drywall and wallpaper. I was actually born in that house and it was heated with coal and wood, and sometimes it got really hot. We had a cistern for water and no electricity until 1953, when my grandmother bought a wringer washer, range, appliances, a refrigerator, a Hoover, and all sorts of new things. I create paintings from memory, observations and imagination. II really loved that house the most.
As I recall David of Cruising the Cut said that some folks call the tunnel “Scarecastle”
Great 👍
Butter might have improved a dry sarnie lol. Id have to hide below deck when going through locks, they very eerie, as was that tunnel 🫣
Relaxing video thankyou and informative. Stay safe the three of you ❤
Great episode !
Your music is so nice!
In a tunnel, wear a life preserver. If you do get knocked over, it'll keep your head above water.
If I come back on this earth if theres life after death I WANNA COME BACK AS ALLEN she one hell of a cat! Cheers n beers Marty Australia
Had some lovely food in the Plume of Feathers. All ways stop when we're cruising by. Did you know Neil Morrissey, of Men Behaving Badly fame, owns it and does a stint in the kitchen now and then. Never been lucky enough to spot him though. Love the pace and delivery of your vlogs.
Haven't been to Middleport pottery... mebbe you could take me if you pass that way again ?
Fried spud peel... haven't had them since I did them for you all those aeons ago !
Loved that boat in Stoke with the planking walls and turf roof !! Love, Papa Bell
Oh.. and see you soon xx
Good video, quite a variety of stuff, vary enjoyable, loved seeing into the kiln and pottery.
I love the weekly trip into your canal world where I can imagine I'm there too (No canals here in Cumbria !) 🙂
Thanks for watching Ian 😊 So happy you enjoy them 🌟
Pottery was nice
Your videos are so good.
Great video, make me miss the UK.
I love watching your videos. It's a good thing I'm living in the US because I'm pretty sure Alan could make me her willing slave. ^_^
Watching from Vancouver, Canada.
Joining you viewing from Vancouver Island!
I’m originally from Vancouver Island.
Your videos are great you two make me laugh allot while watching.
Red water, proximity to Harecastle.
Always a great pleasure to witness your slightly sideways take on boat life; you really do make it look fun which is either great editing or it actually is! Either way, as I've said before, you seem made for it and made for each other (unless that's down to great editing too but I doubt it.)
I think this was one of the tunnels where they had two men suspended on boards and would walk the boat through the tunnel by using their feet on the walls.
Ahhh you're all such good eggs! Thanks for the video and have a great week!
Thank you! You too! 😀
Big fan over here in canada
Well, I think your beard is MAGNIFICENT, Emily! Careful not to catch all the crumbs from Benny's hummus sandwich in it! 😆
I just wanted to leave a comment to say I’ve been watching your videos for months and I love them. I find them relaxing and they helped me with work anxiety on Sunday evenings! Honestly I really appreciate you posting these vlogs and of course ALAN!! 🐱
great vlog guys, I have actually been in the harecastle tunnel and agree a bit creepy... Love Alan so cute.
Thanks for watching! Yes pretty creepy in those big tunnels 😬
Another fabulous vlog. I love how Alan goes exploring but doesn’t stray too far at all. This weeks cruise did look exhausting, all those locks! Middleport Pottery is amazing, I decorated a pot there, it’s such an interesting place to tour round. Harecastle tunnel looked really spooky, you wouldn’t want to travel through alone! Alan found the warm spot on your bed while you traveled, typical of a cat to do that. Take care you 3 have a good week. xxxx
The old 2 up 2 down Emily walked around at the Pottery took me back to the 1960’s as a kid, my Nan still had many of the Kitchen equip including an old Mangle which was part of my job to turn on wash day for a little pocket money… no TV just a Valve Radio when we listened to the Goon show and the Clitheroe Kid…. God I feel old..😂… great video! 👍🏻
Our whole family used to sit around the "wireless" listening to the Goons for our weekly laugh. It was re-broadcast in Australia 🇦🇺 by the ABC, having some arrangement with the BBC either via land-line or special recordings (during the 1950's technology was a bit limited, but we always got our belly laughs 😅). Greetings from a grateful old listener.
So lovely to watch you three. Alan really is the star. She's funny. Thanks for showing us your days. ✌✌💚💚
You are a great couple love you to bits, love your smiles , enjoyed the journey with you.
Bless , take care, that wet vack did a grand job !
Love all your adventures, my only connection to a canal, is the Forth and Clyde where I fish in Scotland.
You need Alan merchandise x
Bone China?! Who knew it meant real bones? Not me. I truly appreciate the extent of content you both include. Thank you again for your time and effort and for my "alternate life" I enjoy traveling with you.
Hello there Ben Emily and Alan, I’ve enjoyed watching your adventures on your narrow boat and just wondered if your still mored at Barleston as I’m going to barleston myself on Wednesday and thought I could catch up with yourselves and say hello, if you’ve moved on no worries hopefully catch up another time, tootle-pips for now