old video footage of the thames

[thamesS23]

came across this on youtube, some home videos of a boat trip in the early 1980's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjeF3TZxRTQ&feature=related

 

[No Regrets]

Nice find!

See how clean those locks were!!

 

[thamesS23]

some other footage here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTnF7D9ePM&feature=channel

 

[pheran]

Very good. Pity they didn't have the time to get further upstream and experience the nicer parts of the Thames!

 

[oldgit]

Grrr

" home videos of a boat trip in the early 1980's"

OLD.... OLD.... !!!!! ....Splutter thats not old ...thats...thats.... not long ago ....

Rather a nice and unusual Powles 33 ? in there somewhere and built to last from those I have looked at.
Thought all those ended up on the Irish waterways or Norfolk Broads as hire boats with rather weedy little engines installed.

 

[Richard Shead]

Wow

came across this on youtube, some home videos of a boat trip in the early 1980's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjeF3TZxRTQ&feature=related

He's no poet.......

But its about the same time as I was a kid travelling all of those stretches, bought back a few memories!

BUT jumping on coachroof, running in the lock...shocking behaviour

Just watched the other one now even I feel old at 35...queues (proper ones) at locks, the "gay" fleet, all the men with no tops on....

 

[jecuk]

Certainly better with the sound muted.....

 

[apollo]

Did he film it through a net curtain?

 

[No Regrets]

Christ, the second clip looked more like a casting session for Tarzan of the Apes.

It made me want to sell my Boat. (Cue howls of delight from the masses...)