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Season 1

  • S01E01 Birmingham to Knowle

    Master carpenter Alan Herd travels the country aboard the narrowboat Dover. He starts at Gas Street Basin in Birmingham and travels to Knowle in the West Midlands

  • S01E02 Knowle to Royal Leamington Spa

    Master carpenter Alan Herd visits the Coventry Cycle Museum, and meets Fred Rice, the man who steered Dover in the 1940s

  • S01E03 Royal Leamington Spa to Braunston

    Master carpenter Alan Herd travels the country aboard the narrowboat Dover. He meets Tim Higton of Warwickshire Fly Boat Company in Stockton

  • S01E04 Braunston to Bugbrooke

    Master carpenter Alan Herd takes Dover on the working boat parade at the Historic Narrowboat Rally at Braunston, where he chats to old boaters Laura Carter and Joan Carne

  • S01E05 Bugbrooke to Stoke Bruerne

    Alan Herd navigates the Blisworth Tunnel, the third longest in the country. Plus, he fulfils a childhood dream when he is allowed to sit in a Spitfire

  • S01E06 Stoke Bruerne to Fenny Stratford

    Alan Herd takes a trip to the popular canal village of Stoke Bruerne in South Northamptonshire, where he discovers an unusual pedestrian tunnel in Cosgrove

  • S01E07 Fenny Stratford to Marsworth

    John Blunn reminisces about old boating memories, and Alan Herd passes Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, where one of the notorious Great Train Robberies took place

  • S01E08 Marsworth to Abbotts Langley

    Alan Herd reaches the Tring Summit - the highest point along the Grand Union Canal - and stops off at Frogmore Paper Mill

  • S01E09 Abbotts Langley to Uxbridge

    Master carpenter Alan Herd is guided through the ornamental Cassiobury Park by Bryan Nicholl and goes through Denham Deep, the deepest lock on the Grand Union

  • S01E10 Uxbridge to the Thames

    Alan sees the world's biggest steam engine, while Dover reaches Bull's Bridge, where she was based 55 years ago