Great Canal Journeys Series 2 Episode 2

[@ceeceety2320]

We are back once again to watch these fantastic videos. These have inspired my wife and I to long to visit the canals, taste the food and visit the pubs. It's on our Bucket list and we never had a bucket list really until now. I want to include all of the narrowboat channels that have encouraged us to come!

[@caroledrury1411]

Camden town lock was like an anachronism, Pru and Timothy on there Narrowboat and modern society surrounding them! What a joy to watch!

[@דודוסר]

On top of all the gifts these two greats of the stage and screen have given to us over their careers, this series really is the crowning jewel. Their love for the people and places and history of England is infectious and inspiring. Thank you, Tim and Pru, and God bless!

[@ceeceety2320]

Well said! My wife and I are from The US and are dying to have a long visit to The UK. We pray that they are getting through Pru's condition without too much trouble. It's not a kind disease.

[@valeriewalker2812]

Thank you for uploading series 2 we Love Great Canal Journey's with Timothy West and Prunella Scales a Lovely Couple. Won't be the same without these two legends.

[@donnalangendam237]

Love this episode as it brings up so many wonderful memories. I'm a kiwi who came to London for nearly 6 years. My first residence was at a hostel just down the road from from the Kensal Green cemetery while I looked for work and more permanent accommodation. Went for a job interview at a school just around the corner from the cemetery for a position in the nursery. It was a successful interview. That was the first job. My last job was in Brentford where many a lunch time was spent pleasantly by the canal.

[@dinshawmuncherjee5123]

Having watched a dozen of this delightful series, I chanced upon this episode. Familiar with the topside of London, this discovery of the canal winding through London was absolutely spell-binding: and in the company of this charming and affectionate couple, completed the picture. Thankyou BBC4

[@johncassels3475]

"I think I'd just like a little tablet in the actor's church, really." "Yes, that'd be nice." Perfect.

[@larrycounce4509]

PBS will often run the Towers, in the late 70s many PBS stations broadcast the series in its entirety. I loved many laughs, thank you.

[@ceeceety2320]

Being from the US, I've not seen it, but wish I could. I'm going to have to look into this! We have PBS. Are you from the US by chance?

[@t.j.m3987]

Try having a drink every time they have a drink in this series and you'll forget all about watching them cruising along😜

[@mathewgreen4099]

Great series this. A good mixture of history & this couple’s down to earth performance. Thanks for posting.

[@janethartwig774]

While I love the beauty of the USA, there is just no place quite like the UK for its verdant fields, peaceful rivers, and majestic buildings and the canals.

[@mtpender69]

"You shall not pass... without stopping at my pub!

[@janicegilliland6253]

love this series. E watched while traveling on the Trent Mersey Canal on a narrow boat. Wish the series was available on DVD.

[@nategilbert7397]

Thank you so much for uploading this series!

[@yellowvette2445]

i Like this series its wonderful nature of GB .....

[@nesanesa9547]

AWWWWWWW 79 yo GOT TO DO IT....THIRD TIME ROUND...XXX THANK YOU.A JOY..

[@patbowman6723]

I remember you both in Faulty Towers. You were great. I love the English reruns, I'm from America and my husband always asks me "are you sure your not from England?" I love everything about England.

[@alisoviejosquash7064]

I don’t think he was in faulty towers. Prunella was.

[@patbowman6723]

@@alisoviejosquash7064 You may be right, I thought he was but, I've been wrong before.

[@capodad2u]

@@patbowman6723 he was not. It was John Cleese who also wrote the show.

[@ceeceety2320]

@@patbowman6723 It was John Cleese for sure, but if you google Timothy West, he has a very long list of accomplishments. Very impressive! I'm from the US and never got to watch Fawlty Towers but am going to look into getting the series. I've seen glimpses of it during interviews with John Cleese and it looks absolutely hilarious!

[@annettehachey7909]

I absolutely loved faulty towers!

[@sirroberttaylor9969]

5ft 2 eyes of blue tootsie tootsie tootsie too has any body seen my gal. my moms favorite song

[@ceeceety2320]

How sweet!

[@SharondaM]

WHY isn’t this one available on dvd in the U.S.?!!! It was YEARS before I was able to obtain the Bridgewater and Lancaster canal episodes missing from the “Best Of-“ dvd series, but I am still unable to find this one, for heavens sake. So it wasn’t the most civilized experience, or something, who cares-it was real, and much more importantly it has scads of tremendously positive material about London-the parks, the zoo, the London canal museum, Limehouse, the Grapes pub, and more.

[@comandokarl]

Thank you for posting these videos :D If I were to ever find myself in Britain, I'd want to spend as much of the time as possible riding on these canals :D

[@chris-cole]

Thank you! The reason I posted them is because I find there is a charm about the couple, a wonderful history about our canals, a beautiful constable of scenery and this series is very well presented and researched and it is just a joy to watch. Tim & Pru are such a wonderful, charming couple. The canals run through their veins, and their lives. Who better to document such an amazing series? ☺

[@ceeceety2320]

@@chris-cole We have been watching for the third time now and just this morning were saying the same thing...Who better than Timothy and Pru to document this series! I'm so happy they were able to do it, not only for us but for them and their family. Such a legacy this lovely couple has left! Thank you so much for sharing this!!!!

[@camrynbourne9092]

i love great canal journeys :)

[@ronaldreed7698]

I remember hearing when I was young that in England people didn't honk their horns, well either I was lied to or that tradition has changed. @15:50

[@caravanstuff2827]

Can't help thinking when she was discussing the fictional marriage between Basil and Sybil that she was projecting..god who could blame her , poor poppet❤️🇬🇧

[@davidrobertson606]

Very interesting

[@leilal8053]

The tunnels creep me out and make me claustrophobic 😬

[@pdaviesmecom]

If I woke up under the M40 I would be casting off at dawn...

[@ceeceety2320]

I would do my best Not to wake up there, but if I did, I would be casting off at dawn as well. For certain!

[@walleye364]

You can tell a lot about a person who litters. If they act like slobs in public, that means they are slobs at home. If they choose to live like a pig at home that's one thing, but don't treat the public's property like a sty. They should at the very least have shown the guys face on the Video.

[@carolinebarnes6832]

It shows an utter disrespect for others, for your surroundings and ultimately for everything. This is the end result of spoiled children who have never been taught any boundaries and have had every whim catered to by spineless parents too afraid, or too lazy to say no.

[@andrebrown2122]

ok... what the hell is going on at the 42:28 mark? What am I seeing? can someone please explain?

[@chris-cole]

Looks like a statue in the river to me.

[@andrebrown2122]

+Chris Cole it was pretty bizarre seeing it at the same time Ian reading from Charles Dickens lol..also kudos to you for posting these for a yank like me to enjoy! Plus you actually read the comments posted..so double plus good to you ;) I am seriously considering moving to the UK and buying a narrowboat to live aboard..do you own one yourself? Are there any other series/materials you can point me to to get educated on narrowboat living? Do you have any other vidz you could upload on narrowboats? Sorry for all the questions but seriously thank you for sharing these at least..they have been a joy to watch so far 😀

[@andrebrown2122]

+Chris Cole i wasnt trying to pry..I was just hoping if you owned one you could point me in the sire tion of good shows or any docs to help me consider..or if you had any sites to suggest..thanks again!

[@chris-cole]

Heyyyy Andre! thank you so much for your great comments. To answer your question, I don't have a narrowboat (I'm very sad to say) I just discovered a love for the canals here in the UK. partly through the series of the videos I put up here to share that amazing beauty I find in canals, but also the importance of finding time in this hectic world to relax and surround ourselves with stuff that balances our perspective. I literally came on KZbin one time to find footage on canals. This is what lead me to uploading the Great Canal Journeys series. I came across a channel by the name of Sortofinteresting and a young guy by the name of Dan Brown who, up until recently, was a liveaboard on his small narrowboat for 4 years. His channel has so many great videos on canal life, narrowboating, how to stuff, real time footage etc He was based on the Llangollen canal near the Welsh border and the scenery there is just stupendous! I thoroughly recommend watching his stuff. Myself, I live in a place called Worsley. The beginning of the Bridgewater Canal which is rather historic and just beautiful. I drive through Worsley village every day and I'm exposed to this www.google.co.uk/search?q=worsley&client=ms-android-h3g-gb&prmd=mniv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7n_f12q7PAhVpBsAKHYiTD08Q_AUICSgD&biw=360&bih=560 I'm sure you'll understand why I love our canals so much. Regarding your desire to move to the UK and live on a narrowboat, if you have the infrastructure to do so then I would thoroughly recommend it. It is a life that appeals to me greatly, I have a wife and two children so it isn't really feasible for us but I still dream of it ☺

[@chris-cole]

just a little add-to after my long comment, another channel worth watching is called CruisingTheCut and this guy has a few videos on Canal Shows/Weekends which are very good 👍

[@mikeysclips]

42:57 Are you kidding me?!

[@grindupBaker]

You can just about glimpse X-Men Magneto's helmet if you look quickly. I think Ian uses it as a bicycle helmet.

[@grindupBaker]

I was along the Grand Union 1961 sometimes Perivale, usually Park Royal factories & Old Oak Railway sheds past Brent Crossing aquaduct at 8:48, not shown and I don't blame them. My Dad, his Mum, my sister, her son all buried in Kensal Green at 10:20. I'm Canadian since 1973 so I'll be different. Beautiful Listed Heritage gasometer at 26:09 reminds me of my Mum's Heritage gas stove. I never realized Kensal Green Cemetary was right next to Wormwood Scrubs where I was born & grew up (Alan Rickman too). They didn't show at 26:18 they painted the oher 2 1867-1880 gasholders white and built 3-floor circular buildings inside them. I bet those cost a pretty penny top own or rent.