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Category: What’s On

Crofton Beam Engines fires up their boiler for public steaming again!

July 15, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

There was great excitement at Crofton in June when the boiler was fired up for a public steaming. The first time since 2019. Over 200 visitors saw the 1812 Boulton and Watt beam engine perform the role it was designed for in the 19th century. Industrial heritage in action in Wiltshire!

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Exhibition by canal charity’s first photographer in residence launched at National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port

June 8, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

Stunning waterway images by the Canal & River Trust’s first photographer in residence, Jonathan Goldberg, are being showcased in a special summer exhibition at the Trust’s National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port.

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Alarum Theatre Poetry Writing workshop with Heather Wastie

June 1, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

From di-Da di-Da to tiddley-pom, we will play with syllables and stresses to give our writing a sense of rhythm. After looking at examples in song lyrics and poetry, we will write our own poems, both individually and as a group.

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Brutal – just minutes from the Rochdale Canal

May 25, 2021 Sam Hewitt What's On

Brutal, the latest exhibition from The Saul Hay Gallery, which showcases regional, contemporary artists and is just minutes from Lock 92 on the Rochdale Canal, takes a new eye to the oft-maligned architectural style of Brutalism.

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Canal boat trips resume on the Wey & Arun Canal

May 17, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

Canal boat cruises are back on the Wey & Arun Canal, with trips set to run throughout the summer.

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Canal charities invite boaters to join those on the towpath in discovering the Walsall Canal

May 7, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

The Canal & River Trust is working in a partnership with volunteers from the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society, to encourage boaters from across England to discover and spend time along the Walsall Canal.

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Thames Archives Reveal 250 Years of the River’s History

May 6, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

A 1920s tragedy, the orders for the River Purification Service and the story of the Thames’s very own Dad’s Army are some of the things revealed in a new online exhibition created by the Berkshire Record Office.

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Be prepared to be surprised on a slow canal trail during May

May 5, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

A month-long `slow canal trail’ will take place during May to celebrate the beginning of the final stage of canal restoration which will connect the Stroudwater canal to the national inland waterways network.

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The John Bunyan Boat is back!

May 4, 2021 Shannon Butcher Features, What's On

A short series of socially distanced cruises have been announced by the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterways Trust to see in the summer on the John Bunyan boat!

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