TPT June 2022

Saving Salterhebble Lock Cottage

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June 14, 2022

IWA’s West Riding Branch heritage champions have saved Salterhebble Lock Cottage, near Halifax on the Calder & Hebble, at the last minute from the auctioneer’s hammer. It was felt that in this case sale into private ownership was not the best future for the property as it is an integral part of the Salterhebble Basin…
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Work in progress at Whitehouse Wharf

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June 11, 2022

PROGRESS is continuing on the construction of a new winding hole to enable boats to turn and enter the to-be-restored Dudley No 2 Canal from the Worcester & Birmingham Canal. The 14-week project at Whitehouse Wharf is due for completion this month. The contractor for the project is Land & Water. Lapal Canal Trust will…
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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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Club open day back with a swing after three-year break

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Colin Wareing

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May 28, 2022

THE sun shone and the handspikers danced at the South Pennine Boat Club open day. After a Covid-induced break the club, based on the Calder & Hebble Navigation at Mirfield in West Yorkshire, held its first public event for three years on Easter Monday, April 18. The club was established in 1976 in Brighouse Basin…
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Norbury Canal Festival bounces back

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Phil Pickin

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May 27, 2022

BRIGHT sunshine greeted visitors on the first day of this year’s Norbury Canal Festival held over the May Day bank holiday weekend. The event, held around Norbury Wharf on the Shroppie, once again featured stalls and boat traders along the towpath and around the Junction Inn. Organised by the Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust, the…
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Lichfield canal volunteers nominated for awards

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Mark Lancaster

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May 26, 2022

TWO Lichfield Canal Trust volunteers with an age difference of more than 70 years have been nominated for Support Staffordshire Awards. Eric Wood, president of Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust, has been nominated for a lifetime achievement award, while Tom Wright has been nominated in the young volunteer of the year category. Support Staffordshire…
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