stoke bruerne

Canal-bank seats for the passer-by

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April 20, 2023

Words and photos: Tim Coghlan TWO benches have been installed beside the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, to commemorate the lives of two of its well-known canal and community activists, David Blagrove (1937-2016) and Roy Sears (1945-2018). The funds to purchase the benches and pay for their installation came from the David Blagrove…
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Characters of the Cut: Ashley Woodward, The Boat Inn

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April 12, 2023

By Alice Griffin STANDING proud at top lock opposite the country’s first canal museum, The Boat Inn, Stoke Bruerne, is at the heart of the canal system. Independently owned and operated by the Woodward family since 1877, fifth-generation Ashley Woodward is rightly proud to be the current general manager. Originally rented from the Duke of…
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Sculptor’s great canal journeys

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January 5, 2023

Words and photos: Tim Coghlan Actors and boaters Tim and Pru are not the only ones to make Great Canal Journeys. And whereas those engaging octogenarians have now retired from the fray, Sculptor – the octogenarian historic narrowboat owned and operated by the Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne – is once again out and about,…
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The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne

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July 25, 2022

Nicola Lisle continues her museum series by exploring the pretty canal village of Stoke Bruerne and its museum! UNTIL the late 18th century, Stoke Bruerne was a tiny hamlet in an ancient Northamptonshire parish with little more than a cluster of picturesque cottages, farmhouses and a church surrounded by fields and meadows. Then, in 1793,…
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SHORT TALES ABOUT LONG TAILS

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September 11, 2021

Sue Day’s adventures of 40 years of horsedrawn boating on canals What: Heritage Open Day 2021 – Horseboating on Britain’s CanalsWhere: The Museum Green, outside The Canal Museum, Stoke Bruerne, NN12 7SEWhen: Sunday 12th September 2021 at 2pm – 5pm Come and meet Bonny and Bilbo, Britain’s most widely travelled boathorses on the canals. See…
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