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