Audlem Music Festival Day Two
The Village of Audlem
Audlem really is Cheshire's southern gem, a picturesque rural village with incredible community spirit. A great venue for the festival. In 2005 the village won the DEFRA national award for 'Building Community Life' and the 'North of England Village of the Year' as well as the 'Cheshire Village of the Year'.
Audlem is where the Shires meet. Shropshire is a short walk away on the Shropshire Union Canal and Staffordshire minutes away by car. Audlem's three main roads are, appropriately, Cheshire Street, Stafford Street and Shropshire Street.
The village has three excellent pubs, the Shroppie Fly and the Bridge Inn next to the canal and the Lord Combermere in the village centre. All three become music venues over the festival weekend. We are now in our 18th year with another cracker lined up, get your weekend booked, you will not be disappointed.
Venues: The Bridge Inn, The Shroppie Fly, The Lord Combermere, No. 11 The Courtyard, The Bit On The Side (public hall annexe), The Mill Shop, Audlem Methodist Church
Narrowboat at Audlem
Passing through a lock
Waterways 1a.mov
The original series from 1992 with Dick Warner.
Episode 9 - FIRE AND WATER and a Trip to Audlem
In this episode I cruise in frustrating circles on my narrowboat around various marinas and boatyards on The Trent and Mersey Canal, The Shropshire Union, Canal, and The Middlewich Branch. How difficult can it be to install a multi fuel stove on a narrowboat?! I also take some time out in beautiful Audlem, and catch The Dodgy Jammers at The Shroppie Fly. LINK
Canal UK Trailer
iMovie trailer for our Canal Boat vacation in England.
Audlem Fireworks Display 2018
Gloucester Hereford canal
City Mill Lock Inaugural Cruise
The inaugural cruise through City Mill Lock.
The lock was repaired, refurbished and reopened for the construction of the 2012 London Olympic Site.
The footage was taken using a camera fixed to Narrowboat Ernest's tunnel light.
walk along the shropshire union
in and around wheaton aston
UK Village of the Year 2018 - Broughshane Entry
Broughshane is known as the 'Garden Village of Ulster' with the motto 'People, Plants and Pride growing Together'. The village has won Ulster in Bloom, Britain in Bloom and Entente Florale.
In 2007 and again in 2012 the village won 'Champion of Champions' award in the Britain in Bloom competition. It has also won the All Ireland Tidy Town Award. Volunteers have established in the area around the village pond, a wildlife area which has some of every species of swan and many rare types of geese etc.
Stourton to Kinver staffs and worcs canal
this slideshow takes us from Stourton to award winning village of Kinver on the very popular staffordshire and worcestershire canal.
for more information visit.
Shropshire union canal (Chester )
Movie and photo's taken May 2015
Percy through the narrows
This is the section of canal going south on the Staffs and Worcs canal approaching Autherley junction, the junction with the Shropshire union canal. We did not meet any boats this time. Last year when we were on our last boat Waterlily we di meet two, there are passing places !
ATHERSTONE FLIGHT (time-lapse)
A 2.4 mile cruise north along the Coventry Canal down the Atherstone Flight of 11 locks on a wonderfully sunny late September morning.
This flight is maintained by lockkeeper Tony Ward MBE and his team from British Waterways. What a great job they do and an excellent length they keep. Tony's cottage and his St Georges flag can be seen besides the Top Lock near the beginning of the video.
We were followed down the flight by nb Katie, an hotel boat of the AWAY4AWHILE fleet. For once Katie was NOT the fastest narrowboat on the cut! As you will see, this bit of the canal was quite busy for the time of year.
The movie comprises two and a half hours of raw, uncut video, simply strung together and compressed by 94% to nine minutes. The compression masks my crap movie making skills to the effect that if you blink you can't see the joins.
If you are a fan of the UK canal network then treat yourself to a look at Nick's Canal Planner:
canalplan.org.uk
For more information about the Coventry Canal have a peep at:
coventry-walks.org.uk/conservation-areas/hawkesbury-junction.html
In case PETA are watching no pigs or pineapples were harmed during the making of this movie.
OVER WATER MARINA - Cheshire Business Awards
Cheshire Business Awards
Annual Audlem Festival
Annual Audlem Festival which features live music at various venues in Audlem, near Market Drayton, including Lord Combermere, Bridge Inn and Shroppie Fly pubs.
Cheshire April 2009 part 1.
Part 1 of our barge holiday (3 part video). David Pedder, Mark Cooke, Garry and Joanne Bretherton, Chris Priddey, travel through Cheshire and visit Chester. April 2009.
Church Minshull Aqueduct Marina 2013
Aqueduct Marina Introductory Video, Filmed 2013
Shropshire Union Canal
Song of the best canal on the system the Shropshire Union.
words altered to suit shropie
Episode 11 On Burrowed Time - The Harecastle Tunnel
A commentary as I journey the two and a half miles through The Harecastle Tunnel between Kidsgrove and Stoke-on-Trent in my narrowboat.