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  • Vote for the Towpath Talk Top Team of 2018

    EXCITEMENT is building as the five finalists in our new Towpath Talk Top Team award are revealed in this issue.

  • Living Waterways Award winners announced

    THE winners of Canal & River Trust’s 2018 Living Waterways Awards were announced at a gala ceremony in Birmingham last

  • ‘Revolting Women’ head to Pocklington Canal

    AN OUTDOOR performance celebrating the women who took a stand for the right to vote will take place against the

  • New waterways trust to launch on September 22

    A NEW volunteer-led charity, the Wessex Waterways Restoration Trust will be officially launched at Bushton Village Hall, near Royal Wootton

  • Audlem landmark fenced off for safety reasons

    THE towpath outside the Shroppie Fly Pub – one of the best known canal scenes in Britain – has been

  • Chesterfield Canal host landmark walking festival

    POSSIBLY the largest organised canal walking event in the country takes place this month. Taking in three counties and 46

  • Vote for your favourite canal in Green Flag awards

    NEARLY 250 miles of our canals and rivers have been awarded prestigious Green Flag status by judges from Keep Britain

  • Vegetation cutting volunteers needed on the Chesterfield Canal

    VOLUNTEERS are needed to help clear overgrown vegetation on the Chesterfield Canal. The Chesterfield Canal Trust will once again be

  • Gas safety on boats

    STAYING safe on board is vital and ahead of Gas Safety Week, running from September 17-23. BWML Boat Mooring have

News

Take care on historic canal bridges

September 21, 2018 webeditor

The Canal & River Trust, the charity caring for 2,000 miles of canals and rivers

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Living Waterways Award winners announced

September 21, 2018

Anderton Boat Lift wins award

September 19, 2018

V&A opens in Dundee

September 19, 2018

Crofton Beam Engines holds ‘golden’ celebration gala

September 18, 2018

Ellesmere Port: A town to watch

September 17, 2018

Features

Saving the past for the future

June 25, 2018 webeditor

THE Yorkshire Ex-Commercial Barge Club specialise in industrial history preservation. Its members are all owners

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It’s my second sinking today

June 4, 2018

Re-Union Canal Boats reinvigorates volunteers on Lowland waterways

June 1, 2018

Canal maintenance and engaging with the public

May 31, 2018

An extraordinary life in words and pictures

May 31, 2018

Paddle your own canoe (kayak, etc.)…

May 31, 2018

What’s On

V&A opens in Dundee

September 19, 2018 Hugh Dougherty

DUNDEE’s £80 million V&A design museum opened to the public on Saturday September 15 showcasing

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‘Revolting Women’ head to Pocklington Canal

September 19, 2018

Canalside plant sale

September 19, 2018

Watch out for Jaws at Sheffield!

September 18, 2018

Take a friend fishing

September 14, 2018

Birding for beginners at Fradley Junction

September 11, 2018

Volunteers

Famous war rescue ship in need of assistance

September 11, 2018 webeditor

VOLUNTEERS are needed in a wide variety of roles to help in the restoration of

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Volunteers needed for canalside ‘classroom’

September 11, 2018

Helpers sought for new workboat

September 10, 2018

Vegetation cutting volunteers needed on the Chesterfield Canal

September 10, 2018

Halesworth Group uses canoe to clear weed and litter

September 3, 2018

Outboard motor sought for work boat

September 3, 2018

Reviews

Vote for the Towpath Talk Top Team of 2018

March 14, 2018 Web Editor

EXCITEMENT is building as the five finalists in our new Towpath Talk Top Team award

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Mikron takes the Suffragettes’ story to the stage

June 27, 2018

Canals, Cats & Catastrophes by Margaret Awty-Jones SPECIAL READER OFFER

July 31, 2017

Mysterious Moorings with Mouse by Kitty Irvine

July 31, 2017

Britain’s Historic Ships

June 28, 2017
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Chesterfield Canal Walking Festival starts

Tripboat at Tapton Lock

Narrowboats from the Cotswolds Canal Cruising Club go through the Grand Sluice Lock, Boston

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