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Celebrate Jubilee weekend at Crick Boat Show

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May 3, 2022

EACH year more than 250 canal boat industry exhibitors converge at Crick Marina for Britain’s biggest inland waterway showcase, the Crick Boat Show. After two difficult years for live events, the show is due to return to full strength with more than 26,000 visitors expected to attend. This year it will take place across the…
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ANDERTON BOAT LIFT HOSTS MAJOR STEAM FESTIVAL AND 10K CHARITY RUN

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May 2, 2022

Anderton Boat Lift, Cheshire’s historic ‘Cathedral of Canals’ in Northwich, will be hosting two major public weekend events in May – a Steam Festival (7 & 8 May) and a 10K Run (Sunday 15 May). Over the first weekend, more than a dozen historic traction engines and steam boats, including the award-winning 1903 Art Deco…
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CANAL CHARITIES CELEBRATE 21ST ANNIVERSARY OF HUDDERSFIELD CANAL REOPENING AND LAUNCH OF NEW E-SHUTTLE

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April 30, 2022

CANAL & RIVER TRUST AND HUDDERSFIELD CANAL SOCIETY INVITE COMMUNITIES TO JOIN IN BANK HOLIDAY FUN WITH HELP FROM BBC STAR ROBBIE CUMMINGS Spend your early May bank holiday by water and take part in a host of free activities at a 21st anniversary celebration of the reopening of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, held at…
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Pets on the Cut – Ferreting around

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April 29, 2022

By Alison Wilkerson OVER the years I have met many dogs on the cut who either live aboard boats, are on day trips or are enjoying cruising holidays with their owners, families and friends. Many dogs live in peaceful harmony with other dogs and occasionally cats but two very special lurchers, 10-year-old Bowie (yes he…
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Steam ship ‘The Danny’ fires up for record cruising year

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April 28, 2022

AWARD-winning heritage steamship, the Daniel Adamson, is firing up for a new record-breaking season of leisure cruises along the waterways of Cheshire and Merseyside. Affectionately known as ‘The Danny’, the 1903 steamship launches its 2022 programme on Good Friday, April 15, with a rare visit to Canning Half Tide in Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock followed…
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Moira Canal Festival is back again!

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April 27, 2022

THE Moira Canal Festival organisers are pleased to be returning to Moira on May 21-22 after a two-year absence.The festival is held on the banks of the restored Ashby Canal, in the grounds of the Grade II listed Moira Furnace in north-west Leicestershire, with entertainment throughout the weekend at this family event. Geoff Pursglove said:…
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NEW PARTNERSHIP PROJECT TO AID THE MONTGOMERY CANAL

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April 26, 2022

People and wildlife are set to benefit on the Montgomery Canal as part of a unique partnership between waterways and wellbeing charity Canal & River Trust and ethical drinks company Belu Water. As a first project, Belu is investing £10,000 to help the Trust reduce siltation and improve water quality in the Montgomery Canal by…
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Medway Queen (Heroine of Dunkirk)Platinum Jubilee programme

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April 25, 2022

Over the extended holiday weekend of 2nd to 5th of June PS Medway Queen will be open on all four days with additional attractions to make your visit more enjoyable. Admission times and charges are not changed, it’s 11am to 4pm with last admission 3pm – same as the usual Saturdays. Ship tours will run…
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Seagull Cruises are back! But….

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April 23, 2022

The Ratho based canal charity Seagull Trust Cruises has restarted its trips for people with special needs, but is struggling to provide the pre Covid level of service. After two years of no sailings on the Union canal the Trust has lost some crew volunteers. As Chairman David Mieras explains, the boats are ready and…
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COULD you lead – or feed – a team of volunteers on a week-long restoration holiday?

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April 22, 2022

Canal Camps are volunteer working holidays to help canal restoration. They offer the chance to learn traditional skills such as bricklaying and stonework – and more modern techniques such as piling, concreting or even how to operate machinery like excavators or dumpers.Every year, IWA’s Waterway Recovery Group runs between 16-20 Summer Canal Camps. This means…
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Pull a replica cuckoo boat and raise funds

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April 21, 2022

THE Friends of Dawn Rose are once again organising boat pulls so that groups or organisations can raise funds in a unique way.In past years, dozens of different organisations have raised many thousands of pounds for their own good causes. Many groups return every year. Even Matt Baker had a go when filming for Countryfile!…
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Monty dam-busting volunteers triumph

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April 19, 2022

SHROPSHIRE Union Canal volunteers began the fortnightly programme of restoration of the Montgomery Canal, near Crickheath, during a weekend work party from March 4-6. The main task of this work party was to remove the massive clay dam, which was towpath high and 6m wide, that retained the water in the previously restored 250m section…
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Canal’s quarter-million boost from council levy

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April 18, 2022

THE Lichfield Canal restoration project has received a massive boost with the award of £260,000 funding from Lichfield District Council’s Community Infrastructure Levy.This will allow Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust to build an 870m extension of the public footpath and partial dry canal channel alongside Falkland Road, creating a traffic-free community greenway link between…
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Characters of the Cut

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April 16, 2022

Sam Worrall, Heyford Wharf by Alice Griffin By Alice GriffinA NOMADIC soul and passionate advocate for those who choose to live a travelling life, Sam Worrall first found herself living on the water back in 2012. “I have lived off-grid for about 20 years. I used to live in a little converted bus but it…
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