Huddersfield Broad Canal Narrowboat cruising

This video is about our journey in our narrowboat on the Huddersfield_Broad_Canal.

After having completed a nine hour day the previous day cruising the Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble Navigations, completing 11 locks, topping up with water, visiting the elsan point and a shop for groceries at Lidl we arrived on the Huddersfield Broad Canal around 5pm. We moored up just before lock 3, not a great mooring as there was a factory opposite but we were both tired. We had Standedge Tunnel passage booked for Monday 8th October so were planning three 4 -5 hour days with Sunday to spare.
We left our mooring the following day. The Broad canal was quite industrial with only other moorings being outside Sainsburys or at Aspley Boat Yard. However it was great to see the 150 year old Turnbridge Loco Lift which opened in 1865 replacing an earlier swing bridge. The bridge is raised horizontally via chain pulleys using counterweights, which used to be hand cranked but is now electrically operated thankfully!
We made our way passed Sainsburys, (which in hindsight we wished we had stopped and moored overnight making a fresh start the following day onto the Huddersfield Narrow Canal as we were unable to moor until between Locks 8E and 9E), passing Aspley boat yard and through the tunnel towards Huddersfield University Campus where we began our ascent out of Huddersfield on the Narrow Canal.