Restoration

Book a staycation with a difference and help bring a waterway back to life

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Janet Richardson

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February 8, 2022

There are still over 500 miles of derelict waterways that need your help to restore them. An exciting programme of summer working holidays called ‘Canal Camps’ has been launched, inviting people to spend a week outside, getting involved in practical restoration work. Waterway Recovery Group, which is part of the Inland Waterways Association, organises these…
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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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Waterwheel on the Wey & Arun

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Janet Richardson

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December 31, 2021

DID you know there is a waterwheel on the Wey & Arun Canal – thought to be the only one of its kind on the national waterway system. At the southern end of the canal, on the Arun Navigation, you’ll find Lordings Lock and Orfold Aqueduct (a single structure), along with a waterwheel. Here the…
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HOMEBUILDER OFFERS HELPING HAND TO CHARITY RESTORING CHESTERFIELD CANAL

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Janet Richardson

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December 17, 2021

To help Chesterfield Canal remain a picturesque and usable stretch of waterway, Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes North Midlands has donated £1,000 and attended a volunteer day with Chesterfield Canal Trust. The donation was made as part of the developer’s Community Fund scheme and will go towards the charity’s efforts to restore the last…
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Salford regeneration scheme wins top national award

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Mark Lancaster

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September 20, 2021

A restoration scheme to revitalise one of Salford’s most historic sites has won a top national award Worsley Delph was the birthplace of the Bridgewater Canal in 1761 which was a catalyst for the Industrial Revolution. Work to make the site more visitor friendly was carried out as part of a £5.5 million physical regeneration…
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Restoring Toddbrook Reservoir: Popular reservoir paths temporarily reopen to the public

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Shannon Butcher

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July 20, 2020

The restoration of Toddbrook Reservoir, near Whaley Bridge, reaches an interim milestone this summer with the end of the temporary repair project to make safe the damaged spillway and the appointment of Arup as the design consultants to lead on the permanent reservoir repair. The Canal & River Trust charity, which cares for the reservoir…
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Rochdale Canal gets £180,000 winter makeover

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Shannon Butcher

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March 11, 2020

THE Canal & River Trust, the national waterways and wellbeing charity, has carried out more than £180,000 worth of repairs and upgrades to the Rochdale Canal, near Rochdale, this winter. Work at Lock 36, at the summit of the canal near Littleborough, will enable the Canal & River Trust to have greater control over the…
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