TPT April 2022

Pets on the Cut – Ferreting around

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April 29, 2022

By Alison Wilkerson OVER the years I have met many dogs on the cut who either live aboard boats, are on day trips or are enjoying cruising holidays with their owners, families and friends. Many dogs live in peaceful harmony with other dogs and occasionally cats but two very special lurchers, 10-year-old Bowie (yes he…
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Steam ship ‘The Danny’ fires up for record cruising year

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April 28, 2022

AWARD-winning heritage steamship, the Daniel Adamson, is firing up for a new record-breaking season of leisure cruises along the waterways of Cheshire and Merseyside. Affectionately known as ‘The Danny’, the 1903 steamship launches its 2022 programme on Good Friday, April 15, with a rare visit to Canning Half Tide in Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock followed…
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Moira Canal Festival is back again!

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April 27, 2022

THE Moira Canal Festival organisers are pleased to be returning to Moira on May 21-22 after a two-year absence.The festival is held on the banks of the restored Ashby Canal, in the grounds of the Grade II listed Moira Furnace in north-west Leicestershire, with entertainment throughout the weekend at this family event. Geoff Pursglove said:…
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COULD you lead – or feed – a team of volunteers on a week-long restoration holiday?

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April 22, 2022

Canal Camps are volunteer working holidays to help canal restoration. They offer the chance to learn traditional skills such as bricklaying and stonework – and more modern techniques such as piling, concreting or even how to operate machinery like excavators or dumpers.Every year, IWA’s Waterway Recovery Group runs between 16-20 Summer Canal Camps. This means…
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Pull a replica cuckoo boat and raise funds

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April 21, 2022

THE Friends of Dawn Rose are once again organising boat pulls so that groups or organisations can raise funds in a unique way.In past years, dozens of different organisations have raised many thousands of pounds for their own good causes. Many groups return every year. Even Matt Baker had a go when filming for Countryfile!…
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Heritage fly-boat’s new home at Ellesmere Yard

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April 20, 2022

DESPITE winter being a quiet time of the year on the canals, it would seem a lot has been going on at the Canal & River Trust’s Ellesmere Yard. Arguably the most significant news will be the arrival of Saturn, the heritage fly-boat and her companion craft Sweden in north Shropshire. The Canal & River…
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Canal’s quarter-million boost from council levy

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April 18, 2022

THE Lichfield Canal restoration project has received a massive boost with the award of £260,000 funding from Lichfield District Council’s Community Infrastructure Levy.This will allow Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust to build an 870m extension of the public footpath and partial dry canal channel alongside Falkland Road, creating a traffic-free community greenway link between…
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Characters of the Cut

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April 16, 2022

Sam Worrall, Heyford Wharf by Alice Griffin By Alice GriffinA NOMADIC soul and passionate advocate for those who choose to live a travelling life, Sam Worrall first found herself living on the water back in 2012. “I have lived off-grid for about 20 years. I used to live in a little converted bus but it…
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Python gets tooled up

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April 14, 2022

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust’s narrowboat Python does maintenance work along the canal, crewed by volunteers. This volunteering has proved so beneficial that it is also part of the new Green Prescribing Programme from South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System. Python works in partnership with the Canal & River Trust which owns and manages the…
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Going behind the scenes at Seend Locks

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April 8, 2022

THE Canal & River Trust offered a different perspective on a familiar beauty spot when more than 350 people took a look below the water line at the new lock gates and repair works at Seend Locks on the Kennet & Avon Canal. As well as experiencing the drained lock and seeing what is usually…
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Chichester Canal 2022 photography competition now open

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April 7, 2022

The competition is open to amateur photographers, entry is free and there are prizes for the best images. The winning photographs will be displayed in the Heritage Centre at Chichester Canal Basin and the best entries will feature on any merchandise and future canal publicity. Trustee Catherine Cannon said: “Every year the quality of the…
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Festival to be revived following two-year break

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March 30, 2022

A WATERWAYS charity is able to run an event for the first time in two years following the easing of Covid restrictions. The Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust is staging the Norbury Canal Festival at Norbury Junction over the first May Bank Holiday from April 30-May 2. The event is free and opens at 10…
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West Midlands Mayor starts canal restoration work

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March 29, 2022

MAYOR of the West Midlands, Andy Street, has broken the ground in Selly Oak to signal the start of restoration work on the Dudley No 2 Canal. He was welcomed by Dr Andrew Hardie, chairman of the Lapal Canal Trust, who recently signed a £300,000 contract with Land & Water, to build the first Selly…
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Eshton Lock repairs delayed by storm Eunice

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March 28, 2022

ONE of the winter works delayed by storm Eunice has been the repairs at Eshton Lock on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal where a depression was discovered in the towpath alongside the lock wall last September, writes Colin Wareing. Canal & River Trust engineers think that water had got in behind the wall and caused…
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