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Video - River Avon Ref: 515
This video follows the present day navigation from Tewkesbury to Stratford. It tells the story of the tremendously ambitious and successful restorations of the navigation, starting in 1950 with Douglas Barwell OBE and the formation of the Lower Avon Navigation Trust.

The tale continues with the formation of the Upper Avon Navigation Trust with David Hutchings MBE and others in 1965. Accounts of the plotting and scheming to thwart obstructive third parties, but overall it's a story of magnificent achievements, culminating in 1974 with the opening of the Upper Avon Navigation by HM The Queen Mother.

Running time: 57 mins approx. VHS (PAL).
Price: £12.35

Video - The Great Ouse & River Cam Ref: 1196
The complex Great Ouse river system, including the River Cam, is a result of a centuries-old three-way battle between millers, the need to drain the fens, and navigators, with the non land-owning navigators usually losing out.

This programme helps you to understand the complexity of the system. It captures the feeling of isolation, and shows you plenty of wildlife. It examines man's historic battle to drain the fens with a look at some massive pumping machinery.

Running time: 70 mins approx. VHS (PAL).
Price: £12.35

Video - Lee & Stort Navigation Ref: 538
The Rivers Lee & Stort together form a navigational cul-de-sac, from Limehouse Basin to Hertford on the River Lee, and to Bishops Stortford on the River Stort. They can only be reached from the rest of the waterways network by boating through London. Once beyond the M25, these rivers become very beautiful and compare favourably with the finest in Britain.

The Lea Valley was the first area of Britain to be declared a National Park in 1966.

Running time: 57 mins approx. VHS (PAL).
Price: £12.35

Video - The River Nene Ref: 531
The non tidal River Nene navigation starts at the bottom of the Northampton Arm of the Grand Union Canal and heads through Peterborough to Dog-in-a-Doublet lock. The Nene valley is breathtakingly beautiful and for anyone who wants to get away from it all it is almost perfect.

The wetland habitats of the Nene Valley encourage an amazing variety of wild life and this video includes rare footage of several endangered species including a flying display by a red kite.

Running time: 57 mins approx. VHS (PAL).
Price: £12.35

Video - River Severn Ref: 517
The River Severn isn't a nice gentle well behaved river like the Thames. The Severn is to be respected at all times. She's dramatic, thrilling, challenging, a great big beast of a river. At Gloucester she becomes tidal and gives way to the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. A ship canal where, once, huge tankers silently plodded their way across the golden cornfields of Gloucestershire.

Running time: 50 mins approx. VHS (PAL).
Price: £12.35

Video - Thames, above Reading Ref: 519
This video captures the delights of its upper reaches in a journey commencing at the river's official head of navigation, Lechlade, and continuing down as far as the approach to Reading.

A distance of some 70 miles, this winding course is far removed from the busy capital waterway so often associated with the Thames. Instead it takes you through many riverside towns and villages full of character and individual charm.

Running time: 57 mins approx. VHS (PAL).
Price: £12.35