TPT March 2023

Hazlehurst Bridge works on track for summer completion

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March 21, 2023

WORKS by Canal & River Trust to rebuild the historic Grade II Listed Hazlehurst Bridge are underway on the mainline of the Caldon Canal near Endon in Staffordshire. The canal has been temporarily closed to through navigation from the junction with the Leek Branch (Hazlehurst Junction), running southeast to Cheddleton Lock. Still, it is due…
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TV boater picks winning Wendover canal photos

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March 16, 2023

THE three winners of the Wendover Canal Trust’s photography competition have been picked by TV personality, vlogger and trust patron Robbie Cumming. The competition was launched to entice people to the canal during the autumn and winter. Entrants were invited to submit pictures capturing different scenes, whether of wildlife, the landscapes or people using the…
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Characters of the Cut: Home Yoga with May!

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March 15, 2023

Alice Griffin reports… Tiny Home Yoga with May – on top of the world! WHEN Meagan Anne Mansfield – known as May – found herself going stir-crazy in the stillness of everyday life after a period of exploring the globe, she decided there was no choice but to seek out a similar sense of freedom…
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New chapter in life of working boat

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March 14, 2023

A former coal barge is taking it easy in retirement. Sally Clifford finds out more…. FLANKED by high-rise apartments in a trendy waterside setting, you could say Marjorie R has got it made. The once grimy and industrial cityscape through which she previously sailed, transporting 75 tonnes of coal each journey between Fall Ings, Wakefield…
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Busy opening session at new compound

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March 13, 2023

ANOTHER spectacularly productive work party saw Shropshire Union Canal Society volunteers able to settle into and enjoy their new compound south of Crickheath Bridge on the Montgomery Canal. A wide variety of preparatory tasks were completed ready for machine plant operations to start. Thanks to favourable weather conditions, vegetation clearance continued apace in the dry…
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Waterways vital to Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan

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March 9, 2023

BOTH the Canal & River Trust and Inland Waterways Association have welcomed the Government’s recent announcement about its Environmental Improvement Plan 2023. The waterways network has been described as ‘ready-made to provide a vital role’ in meeting the target of having everyone living within 15 minutes’ walk of a blue or green space. Both organisations…
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Mooring rings removed from East London towpath

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March 8, 2023

HISTORIC bollards and mooring rings have suddenly been removed from a strip of towpath at Marshgate Bridge 15, near Homerton, according to the National Bargee Travellers Association. It claims that at 9am on Thursday February 2, the Canal & River Trust began removing them even though some were still in use at the time. Boaters…
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Words used on the cut – where do they come from?

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March 7, 2023

John Souter continues his series exploring the origins of commonly used boating terms. MANY of you may be familiar with what a lot of the words that boaters use mean but have you ever stopped to wonder where the words we are all too familiar with actually originated from? Here are more examples of words…
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Volunteer crew members wanted on the Forth & Clyde Canal

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March 4, 2023

THE Forth & Clyde Canal Society is looking for volunteers and new members to help crew and maintain the society’s boats. These include two passenger vessels, Voyager and Gypsy Princess, and Maryhill, a two-thirds scale replica of a puffer moored in Southbank Marina in Kirkintilloch. Training is offered in boat maintenance, engineering, boat handling and…
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Proposals to ban powered boats on the Montgomery Canal

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February 28, 2023

THE Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust sparked concerns recently when it put forward a proposal to ban powered craft on the Montgomery Canal. These concerns sparked a number of reports in the local press, with both sides of the argument urging supporters to take part in online surveys set up to gauge public opinion. Powys County Council…
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The boat’s ‘smallest room’

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February 27, 2023

Helen Gazeley catches up with composting toilet experts Circular Revolution IF KATE Saffin were to choose her Mastermind specialist subject it would, undoubtedly, be composting toilets, more accurately described as separators, as they separate liquids from solids. Not only has she had one for a number of years, is an administrator of the Facebook group…
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Spotlight on the Caledonian Canal

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February 25, 2023

AS SCOTTISH Canals recruits seasonal waterways operatives around the canal network, we focus on the Caledonian, almost 60 miles of natural loch and man-made canal running through the Scottish Highlands. Douglas Gordon is Middle District supervisor on the Caledonian – his patch being the often-remote section of the canal between Laggan Locks and Fort Augustus.…
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Clean air, water and fuel – the impact on our waterways

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February 24, 2023

NABO general secretary Peter Braybrook comments on some more topical issues. IT LOOKS as if 2023 will be the start of a period of environmental challenge. Everybody knows that the planet is dying because we cannot take care of it properly. Every indicator is that we are heading toward a disaster with carbon becoming a…
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Magnet fishers find rudder after plea on social media

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February 23, 2023

WHEN the rudder fell off Sinead and Matthew Hands’ narrowboat Recalcitrant, they set about trying to find it in the icy water of the Grand Union Canal. Sinead takes up the story… “The rudder fell off, we think because it banged on the sill a month or so prior to this. A mistake we made…
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