Colin Wareing

Stoppages: Winter works west of Wigan

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Colin Wareing

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December 28, 2021

AS PART of the annual winter stoppage programme on the inland waterways, work has been taking place at Dean Lock to the west of Wigan on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, writes Colin Wareing. Canal & River Trust workboat Murillo was used to transport materials that had been loaded at the nearby road bridge at…
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March target for reopening breach site

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Colin Wareing

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November 30, 2021

THE Canal & River Trust is aiming to reopen the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Rishton at the end of March 2022 following the recent breach. It is also hoped to reopen Gargrave Lock following wall reconstruction at the same time. As reported last month, fibre dams were installed between New Barn (109) and Aspen…
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Canals saviour immortalised in bronze

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Colin Wareing

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November 29, 2021

A STATUE commemorating Blackburn MP Barbara Castle has been unveiled in the Lancashire town’s Jubilee Square. She is portrayed holding a representation of a copy of the equal pay act from 1970. Barbara Castle was the Labour MP for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979 and from December 1965 until April 1968 was Minister for Transport…
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Fears over water supplies as Toddbrook repairs take place

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Colin Wareing

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December 19, 2019

MAINTAINING water supplies for boating on the Peak Forest Canal looks set to become a challenge over the next few years in the wake of the Toddbrook Reservoir emergency. The news came in a meeting held by Canal & River Trust to give an update on progress at the site above the town of Whaley…
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Top gate replacement works at Pagefield Lock 88

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Colin Wareing

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November 27, 2019

THIS month the Canal and River Trust are replacing the top gates on Pagefield lock on the Leeds & Liverpool canal in Wigan. Here the old lock gates have been removed and are lying on the lock side while the work continues in the lock to finish fitting the new gates. This lock, Pagefield, is…
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Colin Wareing

Stoppages: Winter works west of Wigan

March target for reopening breach site

Canals saviour immortalised in bronze

Fears over water supplies as Toddbrook repairs take place

Top gate replacement works at Pagefield Lock 88

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