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Boats craned in for Crick Boat Show

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June 1, 2022

Monday saw boats weighing up to 35 tonnes each craned into Crick Marina by MJT Cranes. This was part of preparations for the 23rd Crick Boat Show, which takes place over the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday June 3-5. A special Trade & Preview Day will be held on Thursday June 2, for advanced ticket holders…
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Lottery boost for pilot mental health support for boaters

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May 31, 2022

A PILOT psychotherapy and mental health skills coaching service for boat dwellers without a permanent mooring was launched during Mental Health Awareness Week. The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) was awarded nearly £10,000 by the National Lottery Community Fund to support the low-cost service. NBTA chairperson Pamela Smith said: “Our heartfelt thanks go to all…
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MP impressed with Montgomery Canal visit

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May 30, 2022

NORTH Shropshire MP Helen Morgan recently made a fact-finding visit to the area of the Montgomery Canal near Crickheath accompanied by Coun Roy Aldcroft of Shropshire Council. She was invited by Clive Robertson and Tom Fulda, both of whom are trustees of Shropshire Union Canal Society (SUCS) to look first hand at the current restoration…
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Club open day back with a swing after three-year break

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May 28, 2022

THE sun shone and the handspikers danced at the South Pennine Boat Club open day. After a Covid-induced break the club, based on the Calder & Hebble Navigation at Mirfield in West Yorkshire, held its first public event for three years on Easter Monday, April 18. The club was established in 1976 in Brighouse Basin…
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Norbury Canal Festival bounces back

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May 27, 2022

BRIGHT sunshine greeted visitors on the first day of this year’s Norbury Canal Festival held over the May Day bank holiday weekend. The event, held around Norbury Wharf on the Shroppie, once again featured stalls and boat traders along the towpath and around the Junction Inn. Organised by the Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust, the…
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Lichfield canal volunteers nominated for awards

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May 26, 2022

TWO Lichfield Canal Trust volunteers with an age difference of more than 70 years have been nominated for Support Staffordshire Awards. Eric Wood, president of Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust, has been nominated for a lifetime achievement award, while Tom Wright has been nominated in the young volunteer of the year category. Support Staffordshire…
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Leighton Buzzard towpath closures begin 6 June 2022

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May 25, 2022

On 6 June, in partnership with national walking and cycling charity Sustrans, Canal & River Trust, the national waterways and wellbeing charity, is starting a £500,000 towpath improvement project on the Grand Union Canal in Leighton Buzzard. The works, which will be undertaken by the Canal & River Trust’s engineering contractor Kier and are due…
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Vacancy: Advertising Sales Executive

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May 24, 2022

Mortons Media Group Ltd is a market-leading, award-winning, international publisher of many successful specialist print titles and websites, covering an array of niche hobbies and interests.
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Out and about with Alarum Productions

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May 24, 2022

KATE Saffin and Heather Wastie of Alarum Productions are back performing live and have a host of events planned for the summer. Their June and July dates are as follows: June 3-5 Crick Boat Show, where you’ll find them performing in various parts of the site. June 23 ‘I Dig Canals’ in the beer tent…
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After more than 70 years, a narrowboat returns to Newport.

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May 23, 2022

A narrowboat has returned to the Shropshire town of Newport for the first time in over 70 years, with the arrival of a 42 foot cruiser now moored in the town’s basin. The boat, owned and refurbished by David Ray, MD of Norbury Wharf Ltd, was transported from Norbury by a low loader before being…
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HAYES CANAL FESTIVAL IS BACK

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May 21, 2022

Hayes Canal Festival is back on the Grand Union Canal on Sunday 29 May, for the first time in nearly three years. From free boat trips and canoe sessions to fishing and a climbing wall, there will be activities and live entertainment throughout the day – on water and land – from noon until 5pm.…
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Annual Montgomery Canal Forum

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May 20, 2022

Achievements of canal restoration – activity on the canal – plans for the future This year’s Montgomery Canal Forum will be held at Open Newtown’s new Riverside Venue on Monday, 20 June 2022 at 2.30pm. After the disruptions of Covid, the Forum will mark last year’s bicentenary of the final opening of the canal to…
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Open Weekend Celebration Event to be held in Stafford

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May 19, 2022

Stafford Riverway Link (SRL) are organising an Open weekend event to mark the 250th anniversary of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal. It is also 25 years since the formation of the Stafford Riverway Link C.I.C, making it a double celebration. The large fete event will take place on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May 2022…
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NEW ‘CANALATHON’ CHALLENGE LAUNCHED ACROSS THE NATION’S WATERWAYS

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May 18, 2022

People across England and Wales are being challenged to put on their trainers and take to the towpaths in a new ‘Canalathon’ to raise money to protect the nation’s 200-year-old canals and the wildlife-rich green corridors that they provide. The Canal & River Trust, the charity which looks after 2,000 miles of waterways across England…
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