montgomery canal

First work boat on the Monty for decades

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December 10, 2022

SHROPSHIRE Union Canal volunteers saw the fruition of seven years of toil on arrival at the first work party in November. The Canal and River Trust had commissioned a dredger and barge which, after some very tight manoeuvres to get them on site, were eventually craned into the 600 metres of restored channel on the…
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The Monty’s hidden gem.

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Phil Pickin

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June 27, 2022

The Montgomery Canal is not known as a cruising hotspot, and for those who have discovered it, you get the feeling many would like to keep it that way. But as was pointed out at the recent Montgomery Canal Forum, the canal could generate a significant income for the local community if more people did…
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Shaping the channel ready for lining ‘sandwich’

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June 10, 2022

SHROPSHIRE Union Canal volunteers have continued the fortnightly restoration programme on the Montgomery Canal near Crickheath. Due to the amount of residual water collecting in the channel that is being restored, a recent task was to pump out the vast volumes of water to enable the shaping process to be continued. This task alone has…
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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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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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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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Monty dam-busting volunteers triumph

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April 19, 2022

SHROPSHIRE Union Canal volunteers began the fortnightly programme of restoration of the Montgomery Canal, near Crickheath, during a weekend work party from March 4-6. The main task of this work party was to remove the massive clay dam, which was towpath high and 6m wide, that retained the water in the previously restored 250m section…
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Canal project team wins community award

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Janet Richardson

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January 15, 2022

THE Montgomery Canal Restoration Project won the Community Engagement Award at the 2021 Ground Engineering Awards Ceremony held recently in London. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project near Crickheath involves rebuilding a section of canal channel across very bad ground including an area that was a peat bog. The original canal channel in…
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Machines move mountains

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Mark Lancaster

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December 3, 2021

SHROPSHIRE Union Canal volunteers have been continuing with the restoration of the 330m dry section of the Montgomery Canal at Crickheath. The second work party in October was almost totally machine based with the major job being the continuation of reducing the width of a 70m section of the channel at the eastern end of…
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More delight at the Montgomery Canal restoration project news

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Janet Richardson

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October 29, 2021

Organisations working hard to restore the Montgomery Canal are celebrating after the UK Government announced £15.4 million of Levelling Up funding towards the project. The funding, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech, will bring the realisation of an ambition to restore the canal to the national network another step closer.…
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CRAIG WILLIAMS MP: CANAL FUNDING WILL TRANSFORM MONTGOMERYSHIRE’S ECONOMY

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Janet Richardson

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October 28, 2021

Craig Williams, Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire, has hailed the Chancellor’s announcement that £16million of Levelling Up funding has been approved for the restoration of Montgomery Canal as “a milestone day for Montgomeryshire.” The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced today in his Budget speech that Powys County Council’s Levelling Up Fund bid, supported by the…
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