Canal DVD's and Videos

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words.

If this is so, then a mooving picture is worth a million words!

Watching one of the Canal DVD's and Video’s available is a great way of seeing what a canal can be like.

They take you through the highlights of the canal, or river, showing you what is in store for you, and what to look out for.They show you the towns and villages along each canal, pubs, famous buildings, castles and anything else of interest.

They even talk to some of the locals along the way.

And when you return from your holiday afloat,whip out one of your canal DVD's and video'si, and remember your trip!

We have a great selection of canal DVD’s and Video’s, and we play them all regularly.

Two companies produce theCanal DVD’s and Video’s, Waterways World, and Video Actve

Video Active have the largest range available, all in DVD format. Some are getting a bit old now, having been filmed some years ago. It is interesting looking at some of those filmed a while ago, you notice more hire boats than owned boats compared with today .

Video Active cover most of the popular canals and rivers at a reasonable cost.

A well put together commentary, fab vision, the DVD covers the canal form the Cheshire Plains right to Llangollen.

You will see Ellesmere, Whitchurch, and of course there is great vision of the two aqueducts.

An excellent DVD, one of our favourites and highly reccomended.

You can grab a copy here.

They include the Coventry, Grand Union, Grand Union Leicester Section, (Grand Union also available in 3 disc set) the Kennett and Avon, the Lancaster, Leeds and Liverpool, Montgomery, Oxford, Staff and Worcester, the mighty Shroppie and of course the Stratford and Avon.

With Waterways World, they seem to be heading the same way that their guides did some years ago!

When I last looked, only the Llangollen remained, as a video.

But this is well worth having, the first canal video we ever bought.

It follows the traditional narrow boat Justice along the Llangollen, as it visits the towns and villages along the way.

Probably the best Llangollen guide available.

Whether they re enter the market, as they did with their guides, remains to be seen. Laurence Hogg, also have a range of Canal DVD's and videos

We have never seen any of them, but quite a few of our canal companions speak very highly off them.

An interesting feature of these productions is they use archive footage, and old photographs to highlight the history and tradition of the canals.

Canals covered are the Birmingham Canal Network, a good DVD on the narrow boats of Birmingham, and a couple on the Walsall Canal.

All of these are available here. If anyone has any comment to make on the Laurence Hogg productions, drop us a line.

And, let us know which are YOUR favourite Canal DVD's and videos!

Meanwhile, check out the range of Canal DVD's and Videos Neil Radcliff’s Canal Shop.

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