Colin Wareing

Monthly market raises funds for canal group

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Colin Wareing

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December 27, 2023

Report & photos: Colin Wareing A FUNDRAISING food and art market took place in and around the Grade II listed canal transshipment warehouse at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire. These markets are held every month to raise funds for, and awareness of, the Whaley Bridge canal group. The group is working to conserve Whaley Bridge basin,…
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Mersey on the work beat at Wigan

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Colin Wareing

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December 8, 2023

VOLUNTEERS have been operating from the workboat Mersey clearing vegetation from the canal wash walls in Wigan, Greater Manchester, writes Colin Wareing. The boat is a nearly new addition to the Canal & River Trust’s fleet and was built by Aqueduct Marina. It was collected by CRT volunteers in early October from the marina on…
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The ‘good, bad, and getting better’ bits around Marple

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Colin Wareing

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November 2, 2023

LET’S start with the bad; a wall on Lock 7 on the Marple flight of locks has moved, the one nearest the towpath side. A large hole appeared near the lock ladder and there is further movement visible to the other side of the ladder. The flight was closed to all boating traffic on August…
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Blocked towpath cleared

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Colin Wareing

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October 27, 2023

Contractors have cleared the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath blocked by a fallen tree at the back of the Old Hall in Rufford, West Lancashire. The trunk did not help the effects of Storm Babet at ground level being fairly rotten. The tree was removed from the canal the following day to allow navigation to resume.…
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Stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool reopens

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Colin Wareing

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August 19, 2023

Repairs have been completed on Leeds and Liverpool to a leak through the wash wall between bridges 32 and 31 near Burscough in West Lancashire on Wednesday the 16.8.2023. A leak had been detected through the wash wall along the towpath side with the canal flowing into an adjacent farm field. On Sunday the 16th of…
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Wet weather as Wigan Flight reopens

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Colin Wareing

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July 27, 2023

THE Wigan flight of 21 locks on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal has reopened following repairs to Locks 68 and 69.. But although the day dawned wet and miserable the boaters whose journeys had been stalled for nearly six weeks were going locking whatever the weather. One said: “We’ve been stuck here at the top…
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Latest Stoppage on the Leeds & Liverpool

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Colin Wareing

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July 18, 2023

A leak had been detected either from damage to a culvert that carries a field drainage ditch under the canal or the canal wash wall with the canal flowing into an adjacent farm field. Attempts were made to stop the water flowing through the wash wall with a plastic fibre sheet, but this didn’t stem…
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Swing bridge closed after balustrade collapse

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Colin Wareing

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July 6, 2023

UPDATE: Contractors have successfully removed the damaged balustrade. Whilst further repair works are conducted the bridge will be left in the open position to allow navigation to resume. The Canal & River Trust is now working with its contractors carry out the repairs to reinstall the damaged parts over the next few weeks. REPAIR work…
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Winter works at Wigan

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Colin Wareing

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December 28, 2022

EMERGENCY repairs have been taking place at Poolstock Lock No 2 on the Leigh branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Wigan in a bid to reduce water leakage. Pipework from the pumps used to pump water around the lock had to be removed, as was the safety fencing and then a fibre dam…
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Wigan flight welcomes boat traffic

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Colin Wareing

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June 28, 2022

LOCKS on the Wigan flight were among those closed for maintenance and repair work during the winter stoppage season. One of the main jobs was to replace the tail gates on Lock 73 as the offside heel post had split. However manufacturing delays, mechanical problems on the work boat and further problems with the new…
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Club open day back with a swing after three-year break

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Colin Wareing

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May 28, 2022

THE sun shone and the handspikers danced at the South Pennine Boat Club open day. After a Covid-induced break the club, based on the Calder & Hebble Navigation at Mirfield in West Yorkshire, held its first public event for three years on Easter Monday, April 18. The club was established in 1976 in Brighouse Basin…
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Eshton Lock repairs delayed by storm Eunice

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Colin Wareing

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March 28, 2022

ONE of the winter works delayed by storm Eunice has been the repairs at Eshton Lock on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal where a depression was discovered in the towpath alongside the lock wall last September, writes Colin Wareing. Canal & River Trust engineers think that water had got in behind the wall and caused…
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The ‘Iron Giant’ opens for walkers and cyclists

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Colin Wareing

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March 4, 2022

MANY boaters who have travelled the Erewash Canal will have been unable to miss the old railway iron viaduct that crosses the Erewash River valley just above Stenson’s Lock. Known affectionately as the ‘Iron Giant’, the Bennerley viaduct was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1877 carrying trains until the line was closed in…
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Grindley Brook locks host first open day for a while

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Colin Wareing

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March 3, 2022

THE Canal and River Trust invited visitors to have a look at maintenance work on the three-lock staircase at Grindley Brook near Whitchurch in Shropshire on February 5. Because of the Covid pandemic this was one of the first open days to resume with the trust’s chief executive Richard Parry attending and looking forward to…
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