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Countryfile visits the National Waterways Museum

27th Jan 2011

Countryfile presenter Ellie Harrison has been learning how to build boats at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port. The results will be featured on the primetime BBC show on Sunday 6 February.

The TV star was visiting the museum on the Shopshire Union Canal to film a segment for the programme and she also hitched a ride on an historic narrowboat. The show was filming in Cheshire and also visited the Dee Estuary and Northgate Locks.

Ellie arrived at the museum on Shad, a historic narrowboat which is part of the collection. She then interviewed Jennie Morton and Lloyd Ellison, trainees who are part of the Future Jobs Fund scheme, in the Heritage Boatyard. She also tried her hand at the traditional roses and castles painting style.

Exciting day at the museum

Museum general manager John Inch said: “It’s been an exciting day at the museum and we’re looking forward to seeing the finished programme. Ellie was able to have a go at the traditional narrowboat painting craft and really get a good insight into the work the young people are getting involved with in the Heritage Boatyard.”

The museum was featured in a BBC4 documentary last year and it has recently provided the backdrop for First Time Loser, a feature film set in the Liverpool of the early 1960s.

Last updated: 27/01/2011

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