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CRT Mail Changes

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January 18, 2024

THE Canal & River Trust is changing licence communications sent to boaters in 2024 to provide more clarity and advice around cruising expectations and to highlight help for those who are struggling. From June an advisory letter will be sent with every renewed licence instead of just with new licence applications and midpoint reminders about…
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Waterways Ireland: Public Consultation

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January 16, 2024

GENERAL MARINE NOTICE No. 04 of 2024 Public Consultation on the introduction of revised Canals and Shannon Navigation Bye Laws Phase 2 – 15 January to 26 February 2024 Waterways Ireland is inviting members of the public and interested parties to have their say on proposed revisions to the Shannon Navigation and Canals bye-laws by making…
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Fascinating history on the Regent’s Canal

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January 15, 2024

Nicola Lisle discovers how canals and ice cream are linked at the London Canal Museum in the latest in her museum series. NESTLED on a quiet stretch of the Regent’s Canal, overlooking the early 19th century Battlebridge Basin, the London Canal Museum is a gem among canal museums. It is the perfect place to escape…
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Schoolboys have a brush with history as they paint canalside infrastructure

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January 13, 2024

ON THE scorching-hot final day of the summer term 2023, 40 pupils from Berkhamsted Boys School in Hertfordshire set to work painting infrastructure along the Grand Union Canal, next to the school’s Castle Campus in the town, says IWA’s Amy Tillson. The day, organised through the Inland Waterways Association working in collaboration with the Canal…
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Tackle the Thames tideway in 2024

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January 12, 2024

BOATERS who have not previously tackled the Thames tideway will be particularly welcome on another of St Pancras Cruising Club’s regular trips on the weekend of June 28-30, 2024. This will start with a briefing session at Limehouse on the Friday evening. As well as the core voyage from Limehouse to Teddington, the optional extras…
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Brighter days ahead for Sankey-St Helens Canal

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January 11, 2024

Volunteers have responded to the threats faced by the historic Sankey-St Helens Canal by forming the Save Spike Island and Widnes Canal Restoration Group. THE newly formed restoration group has already built clay dams designed to contain salt water ingress from high tides on the Mersey into a canal bed currently low on water after…
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Volunteers get to work on offside vegetation

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January 10, 2024

IWA’s Lichfield Branch volunteers have been busy cutting back the protruding offside vegetation on the Trent & Mersey Canal. Having begun at Fradley Junction in October, they are currently working their way north to Great Haywood, and will then head down the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. Since its inception in 2017 as a joint venture…
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Characters of the Cut: Mark Ellis Bowes – narrowboat Ellis

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January 9, 2024

Alice Elgie reports… IT WAS 2007 when Mark Ellis Bowes first had an epiphany about how to release himself from the rat race and an employer who was running him into the ground. Embarking on a first boating holiday as crew for his partner Andy’s retired parents, a seed was planted that there might be…
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Starting young…

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January 8, 2024

When it comes to volunteering Marc Kennedy is keeping it in the family, as Sally Clifford found out. MARC Kennedy has come a long way from ‘sweeping up’. Doing odd jobs around Shepley Bridge Marina kept the then seven-year-old occupied while accompanying his mum, Sue, during her voluntary skipper duties for Safe Anchor Trust, the…
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£1.2m scheme gives easier access to all

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January 6, 2024

A HALF-mile stretch of towpath and canal bank along the historic Kennet & Avon Canal at Aldermaston Wharf has been upgraded by the Canal & River Trust charity, making it easier for boats to moor and improving access for walkers, cyclists and those with wheelchairs or buggies. The £1.2 million project was funded by the…
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Wendover to Halton upgrade now open

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January 5, 2024

THE Wendover Canal Trust (WCT) has announced that work on the upgrade of the 1.7 mile (2.7km) canal towpath between Wendover and Halton is now complete. This high-specification upgrade was supervised by the Canal & River Trust and the work was carried out by its contractors Kier plc and The Rothen Group. The result is…
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Explorer Cruise: Just two places left!

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January 4, 2024

THE Birmingham Canal Navigations Society will be holding two explorer cruises next year. The May cruise is fully booked but there are just two spaces left on the one in June! Many past members have enjoyed these cruises which are an ideal way to experience travelling lesser used parts of the BCN in a good supportive group…
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Building society chairman joins canal work party

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January 3, 2024

VOLUNTEERS from Leeds Building Society swapped suits for PPE and laptops for saws and spades when they turned out in force to spend a day along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The group of 16, including the society’s chairman Iain Cornish, were accompanied by colleagues from Canal & River Trust who also shared their skills…
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Repairs complete at historic Ashby Canal bridge

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January 2, 2024

RESTORATION works have been completed on a historic canal bridge as part of an ongoing effort to protect and preserve the heritage of the Ashby Canal. The project, carried out by the Canal & River Trust at Wellsborough Bridge near Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, has seen extensive repairs made to historic brickwork, improving the look…
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