Show Reports
MP joins in IWA Lichfield Branch work party
29 September 2011
VOLUNTEERS of IWA’s Lichfield Branch were assisted by Aidan Burley MP – the local member for Cannock Chase – and Darren Green, British Waterways’ Central Shires waterways manager, at their latest work party on Friday, September 9, to clear the Brindley’s Bank Aqueduct area in Rugeley. The historic wharf is accessed by the ‘Bloody Steps’, site of the infamous Christina Collins murder.
Friendly gathering raises thousands for charity
25 August 2011.
WHAT has been recognised as the largest gathering of historic working narrowboats in a modern marina took place in July at Alvecote, near Tamworth, on the Coventry Canal.
Museum gala’s timely reminder of transport by water
28 July 2011.
WITH some concerns over the commitment of the Government and the new waterways charity to transporting goods by water, there was a timely reminder of the importance of working canals at the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum’s Annual Gala in June.
Moorcroft vase awarded at Etruria
27 June 2011.
ONE of the major features of this year’s 18th Etruria Canal Festival – held at the junction of the Trent & Mersey and Caldon canals around the Etruria Industrial Museum the heart of the city of Stoke-on-Trent over the weekend of June 4/5 – was a stunning prize for the best turned out traditional working narrowboat.
The world-renowned Stoke-on-Trent art pottery Moorcroft donated a limited edition vase, designed by Kerry Goodwin and entitled ‘Brindley’s Canal’, valued at more than £1200. Judges Chris Skelhorne and Harry Arnold of IWA Stoke-on-Trent Branch chose Teresa and Roger Fuller’s Ibex from the ten eligible boats and the prize was presented to the Fullers by local MP Tristram Hunt when he officially opened the festival.
A celebration of old and new at Crick
23 June 2011.
THE annual Crick Boat Show and Waterways Festival over the spring bank holiday weekend brought together boats and boaters who had plenty to feast their eyes on both on the water and in the trade area.
Spring on the waterfront - A phoenix rises from the ashes
26 May 2011.
LIVERPOOL celebrated the long holiday with Spring on the Waterfront April 29-May 8 which was designed to be ‘Ten Days of Free Family Fun’.
Historic repeats itself at the Standedge Tunnel
21 April 2011.
TWO hundred years to the day after the opening of the Standedge Tunnel on April 4, 1811, a weekend of celebrations culminated in a recreation of this historic event.
Discovery days at Cromford Canal
16 December 2010.
FRIENDS of the Cromford Canal again introduced the public to their campaign for the future of the canal on the weekend of 30-31 October during two ‘discovery days’ at the culmination of a week of events along the length of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
Fanfare for Falkirk-bound flotilla - Union 10 anniversary celebrations
18 November 2010.
A FLOTILLA of more than 60 modern and historic craft travelled the 32-mile length of the Union Canal to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its reopening.
Circus theme at Ellesmere Boat Rally
21 October 2010.
THE 27th annual Ellesmere boat rally of narrowboats of all shapes and sizes was truly a circus. The 'Big Top' was the theme for the three-day shindig last month and friends of the Shropshire Union Canal Society embraced it with gusto.
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