Love Braunston….when my late husband knew he was not going to beat his cancer…he asked me to scatter his ashes in the canal at Braunston….. So that’s what l did ❤️❤️
Hi Robbie, this was part of our canalboat holiday, loads of great memories are coming back, if your new series is anything like this video, they'll be perfect, just listening to the boat chugging along is so relaxing. More of this please
Something. Bout your vlogs capture the magic of the canals. No airs. No graces. Pure honesty. Love it. Was you vlogs that got me interested to live on the canals. Still to happen but fingers crossed. Best wishes
Welcome back Robbie, so good to see another video from you again its been to long. Something about your vlogs just makes the day feel better. Looking forward to the next one.
I kept my first boat at Braunston when you could moor just past the lockhouse if you where reasonable. narrowboat Raymond was moored outside the lockhouse and Arthur Bray and his wife were still in residence. He kept an eye on my boat for me. This was in 1972 I think. .
I remember seeing Arthur outside Poacher when it was moored there. That would have been mid 90s. Felt really privileged to have met him. A few years later we were wanting a bigger boat and discovered Poacher was for sale. We bought her and spent the next few years living on her. We loved that boat. The shed next to the Stop House was called "Poachers Shed". We took Poacher through Braunston in 2003 and moored at their old spot for an hour. Rosemary came down to see her.. Happy times.
I used to go there as a kid. I lived in a Northamptonshire village on the Grand Union Canal. We grew up playing skittles. I live in Canada now and I’d love one of those skittle tables.
Somerset cousin. I love all your videos.I was also born in Somerset.I’d love to live the life you have.it’s so exciting to see where your going next. 🙋♀️🌻🇬🇧
I live on the canals now with my daughter. It was your videos that got us on holiday on the canals and eventually on our own boat. We love all the trials tribulations and coal dust we first saw on your videos💪 After we bought the boat from whilton we moored on the same spot at bridge 87 on the Oxford 👍
Great to bump into you in Daventry on Saturday morning Robbie. Lovely chat - and we really enjoyed the video. You even managed to capture a view of the rear of our house when you were filming the church from the canal!
Great video, There is a plaque on the marina bridge in Braunston dedicated to Rose & Bill Whitlock my grandparents. (along with Laura Carter) who worked the narrowboats right up until the commercial end. Renfrew was one of the boats they use to have. After they stopped working they lived on 'Lucy' just outside the marina bridge until they eventually moved on land. (Laura still lives in the village) They are buried there along with many other boating people. It is a natural spring in the boundary wall of the church.
Robbie. Thank you for your great video of our village. The Braunston Canal Society (you came past us working when you came out of Braunston Tunnel) help to keep the GU and Oxford canals in good order for all. Enjoyed your drone shots. Looking forward to playing the CD. More please!!
Good to see you back - used to play that version of skittles at the Anchour in Warmington, near Banbury so seems like it's not just a Northampton only game. They also sold the best Barley Wine ... rocket fuel!! ... back in the 70's.. bet its changed now though.
Welcome back. You have been missed. Very much looking forward to the new series of Canal Boat Diaries. I was beginning to regret having binge watched your TH-cam back catalogue last year. I must have watched several years of content in a matter of weeks, and then all of a sudden I had caught up and was on meagre rations. Good to see you back and the music and scenery has me nice and relaxed now. Will definitely be buying the CD. Keep on cranking out those videos.
Great video, and excellent quality photography, good to see you back. Braunstone is a wonderful place; shame the Admiral Nelson has been so gentrified, but good to see it open again. It used to play a significant role in the life of the canals. Morton used its public bar as an office to schedule boats and loads in the old canal carrying company days. In the evenings, boat crews would get out their squeeze boxes, sing, drink and make merry before setting off at dawn on the next voyage. Look forward to your next video, Regards, PMh
Yo Robbie, great to see you back on the tube. Great video and a lovely place to start your trip from. Looking forward to dropping in on your next vlog. Take care. 👋
Hi Robbie. Going TV was not a sell-out, just access to an additional audience. The TV series made me aware of your TH-cam channel and more about your music (am now the proud owner of a CD of Choons 1&2).
Hi Robbie, So glad to see you back. I've been following your adventures since about day one and I thought you'd abandoned us and gone over to the dark side (wherever that may be). Really pleased you're back. Great vlog, thanks.
Thanks for the video, long time no see! Being in the US, I can't see the TV stuff, so very glad you've posted a new one on TH-cam. Braunston looks like a great place to be, and thank goodness you found the right sort of Pub 🍻 😁. Kind of nice not knowing where you're going next. Even better that you can take your home right along with you as you go. Congratulations and well done on your very first CD. You're talented and it should sell well 👍. I can't cruise the canals, but I definitely feel a massive road trip coming on. I've driven around most of the US with my dogs. Haven't really explored the northeast though, so may have to Head East. 🎶
Hi Robbie I am soooo pleased to see your series on bbc4 again as on the big screen. Although repeats I am enjoying them so much, many thank yous, Margaret.
Great video. This is where it all started for me. I bought my boat at Braunston Marina a year ago and spent a couple of months in the area before venturing off. Brings back warm memories. :)
Great to see you back Robbie, lovely day and a wonderful area on the network. Section near where you moored, by bridge.....a few years ago I was involved in the rescue of a calf which had entered the water, and did not know how to get out. Boaters all helping, ropes, folk in water, queues of boats both ways. Eventually we landed the exhausted youngster. Meanwhile, Mum, who was calling for her youngster, was out of eyesight (the field was raised with the natural curve of land and canal) and then had to be ushered across the field to be reunited with her babe. Thanks for some super views, and a personal comment on Braunston village, a great place.
Its fantastic to have you back Robbie. The video quality improvement was noticeable immediately, but 3 weeks to edit it down must have been tedious and require some pretty beefy computing power to male it efficient. Well done on releasing a CD, I am in for a copy.
Another brilliant video, I think the upgrade in quality is great. I find your recordings are inspiring and perfect to chill out to, keep up the good work.
I took my Mom & Dad on a narrowboat for their 50th Anniversary a while ago and we traveled where you are in this video. Wonderful to remember our trip again! THANKS!!!
The grate in the wall of the church leads to a natural spring. Normally springs by churches are holy Wells but this one isn't for some reason. My family are an old boatman family and many were christened at the cathedral of the canals. Great meeting you at the pub the other day.
When you described how you made your music, it made me think Herrrrrrrrrrrre’s “Robbie, the UK canals answer to Tash Saltana” Take it away Robbie. If you’re interested, watch her very early videos, when she’s making music at home in her bedroom still and hasn’t done a world tour......yet. Anyway, maybe you’ll understand what I mean. The way Tash plays, loops, plays again, loops again and again and again is flipping amazing to watch. Layer upon layer upon layer ❤ of wonderful music. That’s how I imagine you might make your music. Playing and flipping switches and pressing pedals etcetera. Thanks for sharing this video and congrats’ on the music - exciting times indeed. 🐿🙂🌈❤️
Hi Robbie, we live in Brownhills (Warley and essington Canal) and love walking the local canal/s all around us. We love your tv programme with your enthusiasm. I am trying to get a project to research the composting of invasive weed on the canals and water ways, I have been talking with an ecologist from the CRT and will collect the removed weeds from them to start. The weed not just impedes navigation but harms the bio diversity of the water way. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the problems with weeds which i have seen.
Great video, made my day seeing this uploaded. Also I didn't realise bar skittles was a Northamptonshire thing. I played a couple of times about 20 years ago when I lived in Northampton, glad to see it's still going strong! Congrats on the CD, great achievement Robbie!
Thanks Robbie as always. I'll definitely get the album, I love your sounds. Recently got Bennie Jone's album. A really good listen. Recommended! Im really loving the banter sounds around right now. Keep up the good work. Best wishes, Bill.
Love Braunston….when my late husband knew he was not going to beat his cancer…he asked me to scatter his ashes in the canal at Braunston…..
So that’s what l did ❤️❤️
Hi Robbie, this was part of our canalboat holiday, loads of great memories are coming back, if your new series is anything like this video, they'll be perfect, just listening to the boat chugging along is so relaxing. More of this please
Something. Bout your vlogs capture the magic of the canals. No airs. No graces. Pure honesty. Love it. Was you vlogs that got me interested to live on the canals. Still to happen but fingers crossed. Best wishes
Great to see your blog again And just up our way too 😊
Welcome back Robbie, so good to see another video from you again its been to long. Something about your vlogs just makes the day feel better.
Looking forward to the next one.
Stopped in Braunston myself. That hill up to the shop is a beast for an old fella like me!
I kept my first boat at Braunston when you could moor just past the lockhouse if you where reasonable. narrowboat Raymond was moored outside the lockhouse and Arthur Bray and his wife were still in residence. He kept an eye on my boat for me. This was in 1972 I think.
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I remember seeing Arthur outside Poacher when it was moored there. That would have been mid 90s. Felt really privileged to have met him.
A few years later we were wanting a bigger boat and discovered Poacher was for sale.
We bought her and spent the next few years living on her.
We loved that boat.
The shed next to the Stop House was called "Poachers Shed".
We took Poacher through Braunston in 2003 and moored at their old spot for an hour. Rosemary came down to see her.. Happy times.
I used to go there as a kid. I lived in a Northamptonshire village on the Grand Union Canal. We grew up playing skittles. I live in Canada now and I’d love one of those skittle tables.
Welcome back. It really made my week!! And glad pub of the week standards are still high
good see put good vid out robbie cool you got cd out thanks lee
Amazing video Robbie. Thank you.
The music is seriously chill - love it, especially ‘Windy Biscuits’ 😊❤
Welcome back. Thoroughly enjoyable as always!
Somerset cousin. I love all your videos.I was also born in Somerset.I’d love to live the life you have.it’s so exciting to see where your going next. 🙋♀️🌻🇬🇧
I live on the canals now with my daughter. It was your videos that got us on holiday on the canals and eventually on our own boat. We love all the trials tribulations and coal dust we first saw on your videos💪
After we bought the boat from whilton we moored on the same spot at bridge 87 on the Oxford 👍
Great to bump into you in Daventry on Saturday morning Robbie. Lovely chat - and we really enjoyed the video. You even managed to capture a view of the rear of our house when you were filming the church from the canal!
Just found you on you tube we have love watching your series on TV and also pleased to see you still on your boat more boat trips please.....
Love this and never miss the TV program, even repeats so relaxing.
Great video, There is a plaque on the marina bridge in Braunston dedicated to Rose & Bill Whitlock my grandparents. (along with Laura Carter) who worked the narrowboats right up until the commercial end. Renfrew was one of the boats they use to have. After they stopped working they lived on 'Lucy' just outside the marina bridge until they eventually moved on land. (Laura still lives in the village) They are buried there along with many other boating people. It is a natural spring in the boundary wall of the church.
Nice that Robbie hope the cd goes well keep well regards Glyn
Fond memories. I had my first boat moored there in the 70s
Wow!!!! Wonderful!!!!!
Many Thanks 👍!
Enjoying this on a snowy March night in Ottawa Canada. I am a retired lockmaster from the Rideau Canal. Thanks for the video.
Robbie. Thank you for your great video of our village. The Braunston Canal Society (you came past us working when you came out of Braunston Tunnel) help to keep the GU and Oxford canals in good order for all. Enjoyed your drone shots. Looking forward to playing the CD. More please!!
Can’t normally watch you on the tv but have it on this evening. So good. Thanks…
Great to see you back mate. Braunston looks like a great place to be. Congratulations on the CD. Take care. Nick
Love all your videos on bbc tv so have just subscribed to your youtube channel great videos love to watch them all.
Just bought a CD. As a fellow musician, I'm looking forward to hearing it on my journeys in my van. 😁
Nice one cheers Michael!
Cracking vid Robbie will look for your cd to play in my old camper van
Absolutely brilliant ❤
Welcome to Warwickshire Robbie! I hope you enjoy your time here. Well done with the cd-a big achievement.
Good to see you back - used to play that version of skittles at the Anchour in Warmington, near Banbury so seems like it's not just a Northampton only game. They also sold the best Barley Wine ... rocket fuel!! ... back in the 70's.. bet its changed now though.
Fantastic vlog Robbie. Very interesting and informative. Can’t wait for the next one!
Glad to see you back you were noticeably missed.
Really good to have you back. Lovely video.
Welcome back. You have been missed. Very much looking forward to the new series of Canal Boat Diaries. I was beginning to regret having binge watched your TH-cam back catalogue last year. I must have watched several years of content in a matter of weeks, and then all of a sudden I had caught up and was on meagre rations. Good to see you back and the music and scenery has me nice and relaxed now. Will definitely be buying the CD. Keep on cranking out those videos.
Fantastic video.
Great to see you back, great vlog by the way. Waiting to see the next TV series
Visiting your lovely country in September for 3 weeks of exploring and your video today makes me want to swing by Braunston.
Great video, and excellent quality photography, good to see you back.
Braunstone is a wonderful place; shame the Admiral Nelson has been so gentrified, but good to see it open again. It used to play a significant role in the life of the canals. Morton used its public bar as an office to schedule boats and loads in the old canal carrying company days. In the evenings, boat crews would get out their squeeze boxes, sing, drink and make merry before setting off at dawn on the next voyage.
Look forward to your next video,
Regards,
PMh
Nice to see you back! Braunston is really lovely - we very nearly moved there a few years back.
It is so great to see you posting again, missed you.
Yo Robbie, great to see you back on the tube. Great video and a lovely place to start your trip from. Looking forward to dropping in on your next vlog. Take care. 👋
just watched your canal trip in cheshire. just fantastik well done rob
Hi Robbie. Going TV was not a sell-out, just access to an additional audience. The TV series made me aware of your TH-cam channel and more about your music (am now the proud owner of a CD of Choons 1&2).
Hi Robbie,
So glad to see you back. I've been following your adventures since about day one and I thought you'd abandoned us and gone over to the dark side (wherever that may be). Really pleased you're back. Great vlog, thanks.
welcome back Robbie - I love your videos (I don't have a canal boat (yet))
Thanks for the video, long time no see! Being in the US, I can't see the TV stuff, so very glad you've posted a new one on TH-cam. Braunston looks like a great place to be, and thank goodness you found the right sort of Pub 🍻 😁. Kind of nice not knowing where you're going next. Even better that you can take your home right along with you as you go. Congratulations and well done on your very first CD. You're talented and it should sell well 👍. I can't cruise the canals, but I definitely feel a massive road trip coming on. I've driven around most of the US with my dogs. Haven't really explored the northeast though, so may have to Head East. 🎶
Hi Robbie I am soooo pleased to see your series on bbc4 again as on the big screen. Although repeats I am enjoying them so much, many thank yous, Margaret.
I'm a late comer, working, but just watched this and it was so refreshing to see you again, doing my favorite videos!!! Thank you Robbie! Cheers mate!
That's better!!! Good to see you back
Great effort Robbie, loved the video overall and the opening sequence was very cool
Wow that was class never seen a kitchen cupboard door used as a dinner tray that is great thinking for space saving genius
😂👍
Great video. This is where it all started for me. I bought my boat at Braunston Marina a year ago and spent a couple of months in the area before venturing off. Brings back warm memories. :)
Hi Robbie. Love your TV blo!!! More please gs
Glad to see you back on You Tube. I really enjoy your style of canal video.
The route from Sheffield to Braunston over Autumn - Winter is just amazing
Brilliant!
Great to see you back Robbie, lovely day and a wonderful area on the network. Section near where you moored, by bridge.....a few years ago I was involved in the rescue of a calf which had entered the water, and did not know how to get out. Boaters all helping, ropes, folk in water, queues of boats both ways. Eventually we landed the exhausted youngster. Meanwhile, Mum, who was calling for her youngster, was out of eyesight (the field was raised with the natural curve of land and canal) and then had to be ushered across the field to be reunited with her babe. Thanks for some super views, and a personal comment on Braunston village, a great place.
I’ve really missed you and your vlogs, what a treat to brighten up a Monday evening 👍🏼
Great stuff nice n relaxing 👍
Brilliant video 📹 👍
Thank you
Great as always, thanks for the inspiration and damm right relaxing viewing 😎
What a brilliant little village! Love the shops a great size village..
Its fantastic to have you back Robbie. The video quality improvement was noticeable immediately, but 3 weeks to edit it down must have been tedious and require some pretty beefy computing power to male it efficient. Well done on releasing a CD, I am in for a copy.
Good to be back after your weeks of filming for next series of C B D, cannot wait and am sure we will not be disappointed
Another brilliant video, I think the upgrade in quality is great. I find your recordings are inspiring and perfect to chill out to, keep up the good work.
Great to have you back and good luck with the CD.
Tom & Peta Cunningham Fife. LOve your programmes and You Tubes
I took my Mom & Dad on a narrowboat for their 50th Anniversary a while ago and we traveled where you are in this video. Wonderful to remember our trip again! THANKS!!!
The grate in the wall of the church leads to a natural spring. Normally springs by churches are holy Wells but this one isn't for some reason. My family are an old boatman family and many were christened at the cathedral of the canals.
Great meeting you at the pub the other day.
Fantastic to see you are back Robbie , keep up the amazing work 😊😊
Lovely video, great 20 mins spent watching that. Best wishes for the Choons rollout. 🎸
I love Shardlow. Had many good nights and days.
So good to have you back mate . Great watch again ...
Great to see you back Robbie…I find your videos relaxing and enlightening at the same time!….keep up the good work 👍🏻
welcome back. very enjoyable film. Thanks.
Hi Robbie welcome back. Yet another fantastic, informative video, looking forward to hearing the new album. All the best🍺
Fantastic video Robbie 🙌🏼
Great footage Robbie, loving the 4K. Congratulations on the CD release too. x
Absolutely accurate guide. It's a grand spot.
Welcome back big man, a cold wet Glasgow missed your banter.
Nice to see you back
When you described how you made your music, it made me think
Herrrrrrrrrrrre’s “Robbie, the UK canals answer to Tash Saltana” Take it away Robbie.
If you’re interested, watch her very early videos, when she’s making music at home in her bedroom still and hasn’t done a world tour......yet.
Anyway, maybe you’ll understand what I mean.
The way Tash plays, loops, plays again, loops again and again and again is flipping amazing to watch. Layer upon layer upon layer ❤ of wonderful music.
That’s how I imagine you might make your music. Playing and flipping switches and pressing pedals etcetera.
Thanks for sharing this video and congrats’ on the music - exciting times indeed.
🐿🙂🌈❤️
Good to have you back
Lovely to have you back Robbie!!!
Hi Robbie, we live in Brownhills (Warley and essington Canal) and love walking the local canal/s all around us. We love your tv programme with your enthusiasm. I am trying to get a project to research the composting of invasive weed on the canals and water ways, I have been talking with an ecologist from the CRT and will collect the removed weeds from them to start. The weed not just impedes navigation but harms the bio diversity of the water way. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the problems with weeds which i have seen.
Very enjoyable
Glad to have you back superstar! Great video as always, thanks Robbie!
Great video, made my day seeing this uploaded. Also I didn't realise bar skittles was a Northamptonshire thing. I played a couple of times about 20 years ago when I lived in Northampton, glad to see it's still going strong! Congrats on the CD, great achievement Robbie!
I went there many years ago, lovely place.
Was good catching up earlier 🙂
I would buy a cd but will have to wait as my cd player ended up in the canal, was the only one I had too, pity it was in my land rover 🤔😬🙄🤣
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Good to see you back Robbie. Missed your videos 😊
Love these vlogs and Robbie is so nice and friendly and loved meeting him not so long ago xx keep doing what you do best and keep cranking it
good choice for pub of the week
Thanks Robbie as always. I'll definitely get the album, I love your sounds. Recently got Bennie Jone's album. A really good listen. Recommended! Im really loving the banter sounds around right now. Keep up the good work. Best wishes, Bill.
So glad you’re back!! Loved this episode!
Welcome back Robbie, good luck with the CD!
Great to see you back robbie. really enjoyed your vid.
Thank you for the vlog, and I've just pre ordered the CD ,
Cheers 😎
Nice one thank you Rodney!
Hi Rob hope you are well hopefully see you. On the canal when I get mine all the best Johnny