TPT July 2023

Organise a National Trailboat Festival

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Mark Lancaster

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July 18, 2023

FESTIVALS are very useful for drawing attention locally and nationally to the restoration or improvement project your team is working on. A greater awareness of your need for more support is generated as a result of that attention. Festivals are encouraged and promoted by the IWA to highlight your restoration project. You will draw local…
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IWA publishes new guide to Denver crossing

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July 17, 2023

LIKE most rivers, the River Great Ouse flows into the sea. The main boundary between the non-tidal river and estuary is at Denver Sluice. The Middle Level is a series of drainage channels. To get from the non-tidal waters of the River Great Ouse to the Middle Level requires a short estuary crossing between Denver…
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Boats and beer celebration

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July 15, 2023

THE final chapter of the latest restoration project on the Montgomery Canal south of Crickheath Bridge near Oswestry was enacted on Saturday, June 2. Another 700m has now been restored, to advance the restoration towards Llanymynech, including a Winding Hole at Crickheath which enables boats to turn round there. This section is now in water…
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Characters of the Cut!

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July 14, 2023

Morgan, Sue and Min – wild wood and wild swimming By Alice Griffin WHEN Morgan, Sue and their much-loved dog, Min, were looking for a different pace of life and deeper engagement with nature, it was having a 58ft cruiser stern narrowboat named Sunbeam built by J D Narrowboats at Shardlow that held the answers.…
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Simulating a boat fire during safety week exercise

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July 7, 2023

West Yorkshire Firefighters have been doing their bit to promote boat fire safety awareness. Sally Clifford finds out more… THE dramatic scene is set. As the sun dips behind grey clouds that have consumed the sky for most of the day, the towpath is relatively busy with pedestrian traffic making the most of the lighter…
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Locking Ahead – the future of maintenance planning

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Mark Lancaster

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June 28, 2023

In the third article about how the Canal & River Trust maintains its 200-year-old system, national boating manager Matthew Symonds looks at some of the challenges that lay ahead. THE canal network is one of the nation’s greatest regeneration stories. From losing many hundreds of miles of waterways in the last century as canals stopped…
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CBOA Names new president

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June 27, 2023

THE Commercial Boat Operators’ Association has elected Mike Garratt as its new president. He succeeds long-serving David Quarmby, who has agreed to become one of two vice-presidents. Mike is chairman of transport economists MDS Transmodal Ltd and has spent over 50 years in the sector. He has a long history of support for inland waterway…
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West Midlands mayor opens Whitehouse Wharf

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Phil Pickin

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June 24, 2023

Report & photos: Phil PIckin WEST Midlands mayor, Andy Street, helped by children from the Tiverton Junior and Infant School, has unveiled an information board to officially open the refurbished Whitehouse Wharf in Selly Oak, Birmingham. The opening attracted significant attention from both members of the Lapal Canal Trust, Canal & River Trust and the…
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Vandal attack on canalside sculpture

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June 23, 2023

THE Canal & River Trust is appealing to people living in Wolverhampton for information after a public art sculpture was vandalised and almost sawn in half. Part of a series along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, the wooden hand-crafted sculpture was created by local artist Robot. Wolfie, so-called as it depicts a wolf, has been…
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