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Taking centre stage

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Mark Lancaster

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August 24, 2021

Alison Wilkerson reports: LIKE many who have been through lockdowns and the many challenges and terrible losses over the last eighteen months, being given the opportunity to have a fun evening out, albeit outside, was an offer I could not resist. This opportunity was in the form of actually going to the theatre which was…
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Lagging behind in the large canal stakes

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Mark Lancaster

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August 23, 2021

Continuing our section bringing news of freight developments on the inland waterways. Jonathan Mosse reports. THAT the carriage of goods by water is by far and away the most environmentally friendly form of transport is not in dispute, so it is interesting to note what progress Britain, as the host country of this coming November’s…
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Heritage and the Canal & River Trust

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Mark Lancaster

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August 20, 2021

‘Talkback’ from Anne Husar National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) DURING the last century, British Waterways began the sale of canalside properties, listed or otherwise and this has been continued over the years by the Canal & River Trust (CRT). Although a recent Freedom of Information request asking how many listed buildings have already been…
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Island hopping on a grand scale. Reviewer: Alison Alderton

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Mark Lancaster

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August 16, 2021

DESCRIBED as ‘the explorer’s guide to over 200 of the most beautiful and intriguing islands around Britain’, Treasured Islands will appeal to a wide audience from day trippers and holidaymakers to sea-going navigators All the well-known islands one would expect are featured but author Peter Naldrett has also gone out of his way travelling to…
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Escaping the rent trap – Millie, Dale and Ralph!

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Mark Lancaster

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August 15, 2021

Emergency Services worker Dale and Teaching Assistant Millie (both 26) were fed up working hard to pay someone else’s mortgage – ‘stuck in the rent trap’ Millie puts it. It wasn’t just the high rent that made this young couple seriously consider life on the cut, it was also not being able to decorate their…
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SOS call goes out to save SS Sir Walter Scott

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Mark Lancaster

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August 11, 2021

AN URGENT call has gone out from the Loch Katrine Steamship Trust for enthusiasts, businesses and public bodies to rally round to help raise £500,000 before the end of 2021 to ensure the 1899-built, freshwater steamer SS Sir Walter Scott can sail again in 2022. The trust, which took over the historic ship from Scottish…
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Helen Gazeley looks forward to enjoying museums and exhibition visits again

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Mark Lancaster

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August 10, 2021

With the promise of lifted restrictions and the summer holidays in our sights, many of us are looking for places to visit. In fact, the prospect of actually visiting something indoors that isn’t a shop seems an adventure all on its own. In a delightful sign that life is returning to normal, museums and galleries…
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Join in new Summer Fun on Cheshire’s waterways

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Mark Lancaster

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August 2, 2021

Boat trips return at Anderton Boat Lift, historic ‘Canal Town’ re-enactments, free fishing taster sessions and walking groups for the over 55s Join in summer fun on Cheshire’s beautiful waterways with a host of activities and events organised by the Canal & River Trust waterways and wellbeing charity. Public boat trips at Northwich’s Anderton Boat…
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Crick Boat Show August 2021: Who’s who and what’s what?

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Shannon Butcher

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August 1, 2021

The Crick Boat Show is just around the corner and there are lots of fantastic exhibitors getting ready to greet visitors for the first time in a while.
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The Bottle Kilns of Stoke-On-Trent

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Mark Lancaster

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July 31, 2021

The Stoke-on-Trent skylines of the late 18th and 19th centuries were once dominated by thousands of smoky “bottle kilns” used for firing the pottery ware. The kilns, typical of the industrial landscape of the area can still be seen today as 47 are preserved as listed buildings. Jon Thompson and Tracy Chevin, owners of the…
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Inside the August issue of Towpath Talk

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Shannon Butcher

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July 22, 2021

Inside the August issue of Towpath Talk, one of the inland waterways’ annual highlights, Crick Boat Show has moved to the weekend of August 20-22 from its usual dates in May and visitors can again vote for their favourite boat in the show, which is a popular tradition.
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Vandalism on the Ashby Canal

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Shannon Butcher

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July 16, 2021

Sometime over Saturday 11 July, a picnic table and Ashby Canal Association information sign by Bridge 37 on the Ashby Canal at Far Coton, near Market Bosworth was destroyed by an obviously disturbed individual.
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Spending time on the water can be a perfect prescription to improve health and wellbeing

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Shannon Butcher

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July 15, 2021

With concerns around the negative mental and physical health legacy of the coronavirus pandemic, new research published 7 July 2021, reveals that spending time on coastal or inland waterways can be an easily accessible and effective way to improve wellbeing.
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Cruising on the Chesterfield Canal is back!

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Shannon Butcher

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July 14, 2021

With the scrapping of social distancing rules, the Chesterfield Canal Trust will be getting its fleet of four tripboats back into action.
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