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One man and his dog – and a 250-mile towpath challenge

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June 8, 2026

FOR more than 30 years, Britain’s canals have been a place of refuge, connection and joy for Mark Willis. But when the Whitchurch breach devastated the Llangollen Canal, closing a vital waterway and then demanding an immense, costly rebuild, it exposed just how fragile some blue spaces have become – and how heavily they now…
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BRAUNSTON’S rudder mystery

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March 28, 2025

Tim Coghlan reports… THE waterside setting of the Red Wheel Plaque, awarded in 2024 to Braunston Marina by the National Transport Trust in 2024, has been enhanced as a historic canal transport hub by the placing beneath it of an old iron working boat rudder. Its origins remain something of a mystery but various suggestions have…
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Marina nets garden centre cup hat-trick

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October 2, 2023

Words & photo: Tim Coghlan BRAUNSTON Marina was recently awarded the Dennett’s Garden Centre Cup, presented annually to local businesses to encourage floral displays on their premises. Since the cup was introduced in 2015 by the Daventry-based garden centre, the marina has now won it three times taking on the likes of local canalside pubs,…
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Urgent request for crew – Kildare

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April 8, 2023

Much work has been completed on Kildare and the plan is to take the boat to Braunston to be painted for the Boat Show in June. A crew is needed to move Kildare. The plan is to assemble at the Museum on Tuesday 11 April with a 5-6 day cruise to Braunston. This requires a…
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Braunston war memorial receives a welcome makeover

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December 13, 2022

IN THE two weeks before this year’s Remembrance Sunday, Braunston village’s war memorial received a welcome makeover – thanks again to generous sponsorship from Braunston Marina. Tim Coghlan, owner of the marina and co-author with Jenny Coy of the booklet Braunston’s Roll of Honour in World War 1, said: “We are proud to play our…
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Shipshape and Braunston fashion

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May 5, 2022

WITH the lifting of lockdown and the prospect of a full season of waterways rallies and festivals ahead, the owners of Effingham, Keith and Jill Astley, have recently had its paintwork restored to the original 1959 British Waterways livery. The work was carried out by father and son boat painters Dave and Aaron Bishop in…
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Characters of the Cut: Star Crafts

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March 9, 2022

SIX sewing machines is not necessarily what you expect to find beneath the cloths of an historic working boat but this, along with workbenches, is precisely what you will discover when peeling back the layers of narrowboat Nebulae. A 71ft 6in small Woolwich butty built by Harland and Wolff in 1935 to carry coal and…
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