The Bargee

[Pie Eater]

Just started on Talking Pictures

[dixi188]

Seems to be on at least once a year.

[robtheplod]

Got this on DVD - times gone by! 

[pete harrison]

56 minutes ago, robtheplod said:

Got this on DVD - times gone by! 

I have it on DVD as well (a gift from one of my sons), but I have not opened it as I recorded it off the telly a while ago 

[archie57]

If you look at the DVD you will see scenes in the trailer filmed at the Gauging lock at Buckby which don't appear in the film.....

[peterboat]

Great film and yes I have it on DVD 

[Laurie Booth]

Fab film

[Nightwatch]

Painful at times. But overall good film.

[rusty69]

Ch81 freeview started 1/2 hour ago..............again.

[BilgePump]

Have it on VHS, don't have a player ? Great film, proper period piece with some comedy legends

Edited February 14, 2020 by BilgePump

[Heartland]

At the end the motor and butty are renamed HEMEL and CHRISTINE, what WERE the proper identities?

[Flyboy]

37 minutes ago, Heartland said:

At the end the motor and butty are renamed HEMEL and CHRISTINE, what WERE the proper identities?

Banstead & Bellerophon (built 1936). Bellerophon became Iona and is the horse drawn trip boat at Godalming on the Wey Navigation. Iona also appeared in an episode of Coronation Street.

Edited February 15, 2020 by Flyboy

[Athy]

2 hours ago, Flyboy said:

 Bellerophon became Iona and is the horse drawn trip boat at Godalming on the Wey Navigation. Iona also appeared in an episode of Coronation Street.

I never knew that. I took a group of C.E. pupils on it some years ago as a History field trip (we also went to a watermill fairly close by).

[Keeping Up]

On 29/10/2019 at 21:22, archie57 said:

If you look at the DVD you will see scenes in the trailer filmed at the Gauging lock at Buckby which don't appear in the film.....

Which lock is that? I can't place it.

[Flyboy]

39 minutes ago, Keeping Up said:

Which lock is that? I can't place it.

Lock 9  near where the railway crosses, see bottom right on map. The building has long since gone.

 

Edited February 15, 2020 by Flyboy

[Alan de Enfield]

25 minutes ago, Flyboy said:

Lock 9  near where the railway crosses, see bottom left on map. The building has long since gone.

The gauge lock is on the bottom Right.

[Flyboy]

3 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

The gauge lock is on the bottom Right.

Oops !  Now corrected , thanks.

[Keeping Up]

1 hour ago, Flyboy said:

Lock 9  near where the railway crosses, see bottom right on map. The building has long since gone.

 

Thanks for that

[Ray T]

Entering the gauging lock,

Neptune and Lucy.

Jim Payler photo from here: http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/Payler Albums/Barlow/Barlow.htm

 

Edited February 15, 2020 by Ray T

[Keeping Up]

Fascinating. Is that the handrail of the existing little bridge across the lock tail, just visible in front of the balance beam?

[Nightwatch]

18 hours ago, Athy said:

I never knew that. I took a group of C.E. pupils on it some years ago as a History field trip (we also went to a watermill fairly close by).

My brother knows the owner operator of Iona. During one of my visits to Hampshire we went to meet her and have a look at the horses at the stables and then onto the boat in Godalming. What a really nice pleasant lady she is. 
 

We then went to lunch at the little but very flavourful cafe at Godalming boats. 
Just a small claim to fame that I have.

[Athy]

31 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

My brother knows the owner operator of Iona. During one of my visits to Hampshire we went to meet her and have a look at the horses at the stables and then onto the boat in Godalming. What a really nice pleasant lady she is. 
 

We then went to lunch at the little but very flavourful cafe at Godalming boats. 
Just a small claim to fame that I have.

Said school excursion was in 2002; would it have been the same owner back then?

[Nightwatch]

2 hours ago, Athy said:

Said school excursion was in 2002; would it have been the same owner back then?

Yes I think so. She has been a client of my brothers (hairdresser) for many many years. I’ll ask him.

[Nightwatch]

Jenny Roberts is her name. Colin, brother has known her for forty years and remembers her getting Iona. Almost certainly was Jenny in 2003.