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Tapton Lock Festival Returns Next Month!

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July 29, 2023

Now in its eleventh year, organisers have confirmed that the popular Tapton Lock Festival will return this September with a host of new activities and entertainment for families to enjoy. The free annual event is organised by Junction Arts and Derbyshire County Council to bring families and friends together to enjoy the outdoors, promoting better health…
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Work starts on Cromford Canal extension at Langley Mill

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July 28, 2023

THE much-anticipated start on the extension of the Cromford Canal at Beggarlee, Langley Mill, has begun, with preparatory work to pipe two gullies. One of these will pass underneath and across the new canal extension which has been one of the principal objectives of the Friends of Cromford Canal which was established in 2002. Connecting…
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Up for the challenge on the Chesterfield Canal

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July 28, 2023

Report & photos: Janet Richardson EXCITING plans for the Staveley Town Basin were unveiled at a business event hosted by the Chesterfield Canal Society on the eve of its recent canal festival. A new hub – Staveley Waterside – is to be created for start-up and existing businesses, building on the success of the Markham…
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Innovation at lock gate workshops

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July 27, 2023

THE Canal & River Trust’s lock gate workshops, at Bradley in the West Midlands and Stanley Ferry in Yorkshire, are bringing forward several small changes to lock gate production to increase speed and efficiency. With over 1500 locks across the trust’s canal network, and a working life of typically 25 years, there is a constant…
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More good news for the Monty Canal!

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July 27, 2023

THE Shropshire Union Canal Society has received a £14,600 restoration grant from the Association for Industrial Archaeology towards the cost of restoring the historic tramway wharf on the Montgomery Canal at Crickheath. It was the terminus of a 2½ mile horse-drawn tramway from the limestone quarry at Porth-y-waen. Built by navvies during the construction of…
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NBTA plans ballot on resistance to licence changes

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July 26, 2023

AS BOATERS anxiously await an update from the Canal & River Trust (CRT) on their new licensing structure, the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is gearing up to ballot its members on what actions they are willing to take to oppose any attack on the itinerant liveaboard community. CRT carried out a ‘consultation survey’ between…
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Cost of living petition presented at No 10

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July 26, 2023

Boaters joined a flotilla to take their Energy Bills Support Scheme plight to the capital. Sally Clifford finds out more. SLOW cruisers took their campaign to the doorstep of Britain’s political power. The boaters travelled to London to protest the continued exclusion of itinerant boat dwellers and others without a fixed address from receiving the…
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A horse hauled Shroppie fly-boat!

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July 25, 2023

THE Shropshire Union Main Line near Norbury recently saw a Shropshire Union Fly-boat hauled by a horse, perhaps the first time here for a hundred years! This rare and wonderful sight was the well-known Saturn, hauled by Flower, an eight-year-old mare. David Ray of Norbury Wharf Ltd said: “Flower did really well. She is usually ridden…
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Green Flags for Almost 600 Miles of Waterways!

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July 25, 2023

The Canal & River Trust is announcing that Keep Britain Tidy has awarded 50* of its canal and river navigations with prestigious Green Flag status. The nation’s canal charity has secured a further 53.5 miles of Green Flag waterways across England and Wales, with 592* miles now holding the international quality mark for parks and…
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Canal Charity Announces Programme of Work to Help Protect Nation’s Historic Waterways

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July 24, 2023

The Canal & River Trust has announced an £89m programme of engineering work, illustrating the scale of the resource required to protect and preserve the nation’s 250-year-old canal network. Against a backdrop of the government announced sweeping cuts to the future funding of canals, in the current financial year, the Trust will complete more than…
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Canal Stalwart and Local Historian has taken his Last Journey Afloat

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July 22, 2023

William Walker, a long-serving and devoted, retired employee of British Waterways (now Canal & River Trust) was given a most fitting send-off when he made his last waterborne journey aboard the Phoenix narrowboat on Friday 21st July 2023. Departing from Whaley Bridge at 10am, William’s coffin was transported on a last trip afloat, in traditional style,…
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Hazlehurst Bridge restoration complete

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July 21, 2023

Canal & River Trust, the national canal charity, has completed the project to rebuild the Grade II Listed Hazlehurst Bridge on the Caldon Canal near Endon in Staffordshire. The 12-month project, costing £2 million, was enabled by an award from the Postcode Earth Trust, thanks to funds raised by People’s Postcode Lottery players. It has…
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Irelands Inland Waterways celebrated in photographs

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July 19, 2023

Our Irish Waters correspondent Alison Alderton reports on a wonderful photo exhibition: The Goodly Barrow museum and café, situated in the former warehouse buildings at Goresbridge on the banks of the River Barrow, has long associations with the navigation and former working barges which once plied these waters. Throughout July and August, these bygone days…
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IWA publishes new guide to Denver crossing

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July 17, 2023

LIKE most rivers, the River Great Ouse flows into the sea. The main boundary between the non-tidal river and estuary is at Denver Sluice. The Middle Level is a series of drainage channels. To get from the non-tidal waters of the River Great Ouse to the Middle Level requires a short estuary crossing between Denver…
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