Braunston 2024

[jeannette smith harrison]

I never tired of hearing some of the tales from David Blagrove. In the pub with the narrowboat crew at Braunston one year  where linked to my family like the time he broke down on the Thames at Brentford & Mark Harrison broke the rules by going onto the Thames to tow him out of danger .Mark was called up before the company who had their office in a pub the next morning. David turned up with 4 bottles of good whisky 

plonked them on the table & said fine paid . 

[Chris-B]

On 01/07/2024 at 07:00, Stroudwater1 said:

It didn’t seem too loud. Robbie Cumming played but unfortunately we missed him. 

Fortunately more like 

[DShK]

5 hours ago, Chris-B said:

Fortunately more like 

Got trapped in tradline with him while I was buying 120ft of line for the parade (you were serious about that bit right Chris?) Painful how long it took for them to coil it up

Edited July 2 by DShK

[Dav and Pen]

I had never been to the Braunston show until this year as we have been on the continent for 18 years and then the plague. I’m not a fan of shiny paintwork but do like polished brass. Met some old friends and made some new ones and people who are serious about maintaining the boats even if they are not”working boats” .  I tried to make a joke to the friends of Raymond’s crew by saying they were in the wrong place ie on the corner by the bridge but it fell flat as they said this is our place. Great atmosphere between the crews and I for one thoroughly enjoyed it.

[IanM]

19 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

I had never been to the Braunston show until this year as we have been on the continent for 18 years and then the plague. I’m not a fan of shiny paintwork but do like polished brass. Met some old friends and made some new ones and people who are serious about maintaining the boats even if they are not”working boats” .  I tried to make a joke to the friends of Raymond’s crew by saying they were in the wrong place ie on the corner by the bridge but it fell flat as they said this is our place. Great atmosphere between the crews and I for one thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry about that, I'd had so many people that day telling me what the plan for the parade was that I just took your comment as just another instruction (not helped by on the Saturday none of the marshals were wearing anything to identify them apart from a name badge!).  I did get what you meant in the end though!

[Tim Lewis]

Nice video from Mike 🙂

 

 

 

Edited July 8 by Tim Lewis

[rivergate]

.. really nice film - thanks for sharing this... 👍👊

[Mike Tee]

Yes, thanks for that - looked like not too many people attended this year, we were off on a cruise around Burton on Trent (but I'm sure I recognised the voice on the tannoy as an old friend!)

[IanM]

You can see me looking slightly bored at the 9:18 mark 😆