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The Lion Salt Works Museum provides free access to collections and educational support

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Shannon Butcher

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April 10, 2020

Staff at the Lion Salt Works Museum, part of Cheshire West and Chester Council’s group of four museums are determined to connect with audiences through social media and their website while the doors are temporarily closed. Using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the Museum’s own website, visitors, both young and old, can enjoy pictures from the…
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Tune in to wildlife during tough times

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Shannon Butcher

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April 8, 2020

The Wildlife Trusts have created wonderful online nature activities to encourage everyone to tune in to wildlife at home this spring – and to help people find solace in nature during tough times. Spot bees, butterflies, bats and birds during your permitted local walk, keep children entertained with nature-themed crafts, or tune in to look…
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Birds nesting in ‘eggstraordinary’ places

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Shannon Butcher

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April 8, 2020

Spring has truly sprung in the UK and blossom buds are bursting, birds are singing their morning melodies of the dawn chorus and flitting and from their nesting sites in search of materials. Despite everything that’s going in the world at the moment, nature is still open for business and carrying on doing its thing…
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Canal Boating For Beginners – A 1920’s Narrowboat Film

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Darren Hendley

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December 23, 2018

YouTuber CountryHouseGent recently paid a visit to a local charity shop and there, hiding in a dark and dusty corner, he found an old reel of cine film. Naturally he was curious as to what this contained, so after much time and expense, he had it transferred to digital. Imagine his surprise and delight then, on…
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Saving the past for the future

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Janet Richardson

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June 25, 2018

THE Yorkshire Ex-Commercial Barge Club specialise in industrial history preservation. Its members are all owners of private vessels and welcome support in helping them fight the odds to save these craft and thus save the past for the future. These craft are so important that the National Historic Ships has registered the entire fleet. The…
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Characters of the cut – Mark Holdsworth

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Pauline Hawkins

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December 5, 2017

Noah Price meets the man behind the musical internet sensation, The Narrowboat Sessions. MARK Holdsworth, 56, a retired, ex-forces engineer, has held two passions close to his heart throughout his life – narrowboats and music. In 2014 he decided to combine the two in the form of The Narrowboat Sessions. It is a platform where…
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Check your gas locker for corrosion

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Janet Richardson

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February 28, 2017

Ben Sutcliffe-Davies has more than 35 years’ experience in the marine industry, including boat building in timber, GRP, steel and aluminium. An accredited member of the Yacht Designers and Surveyors Association (YDSA) and an associate member of the International Institute of Marine Surveying (IIMS), he is also a full member of British Marine and the…
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