TPT November 2023

IWA welcomes HS2 cancellation

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November 21, 2023

THE Inland Waterways Association (IWA) has welcomed the cancellation of HS2 Phase 2 as announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Cancellation of HS2 Phases 2a, 2b and HS2 East will avoid major noise impacts on waterway users at numerous locations and remove the blight on several canal restoration projects. Phase 2a (Fradley to Crewe) was…
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Horseboating returns to the Chesterfield Canal

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November 17, 2023

EVERY year since 2019, the Chesterfield Canal Trust has put on displays of horseboating in Worksop. Charlie, the horse, could be seen on many summer Sundays towing Dawn Rose along the canal from Shireoaks to Worksop and back. This always attracted crowds of people keen to see a spectacle which dates back 250 years to…
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Oxford Canal bridges get £650,000 lift

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November 16, 2023

THE Canal & River Trust is carrying out a £650,000 upgrade programme on four of the Oxford Canal’s iconic wooden lift bridges. A familiar part of the Oxfordshire landscape for nearly 250 years, the bridges were built to allow local farmers and residents to cross the newly dug canal. However, with funding for the construction…
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Lord Mayor books a visit to barge

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November 16, 2023

Word is spreading about the Marjorie R floating bookshop in Leeds, as Sally Clifford found out. MOORED in the trendy waterside setting of Leeds dock, Marjorie R remains oblivious to her global fame. Queues of visitors, some from abroad, recently flocked to see this 77-year-old former workhorse of the waterway after seeing TV and media…
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New green flags for North West waterways

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November 14, 2023

MORE than two-thirds of the North West region’s canals have been given Green Flag Award 2023/24 status by Keep Britain Tidy. The designation of a further 33 miles of the Trent & Mersey Canal takes the regional total up to 268 miles of Canal & River Trust waterways in Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.…
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Characters of the Cut: RiverMouse – Laura Lee Tanner

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November 14, 2023

Alice Griffin reports… IT WAS a bright November Sunday in 2021 when singer-songwriter Laura Lee Tanner would embark on her first step in the creation of the folk quartet, RiverMouse, that she now fronts. Strolling past The Fox & Hounds pub in Stony Stratford, close to where her narrowboat was moored on the Grand Union…
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Closing the Shropshire Gap on the Montgomery Canal

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November 13, 2023

THE Shropshire Gap has become the colloquial term for the unrestored section of the Montgomery Canal between Crickheath Basin to Llanymynech, on the Welsh border. But the gap is steadily diminishing as work continues at Crickheath South and Schoolhouse Bridge. This work has been helped in no small part by public donations and volunteers from…
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The ‘good, bad, and getting better’ bits around Marple

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Colin Wareing

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November 2, 2023

LET’S start with the bad; a wall on Lock 7 on the Marple flight of locks has moved, the one nearest the towpath side. A large hole appeared near the lock ladder and there is further movement visible to the other side of the ladder. The flight was closed to all boating traffic on August…
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Canal boss volunteers for a day!

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November 1, 2023

CHIEF executive of the Canal & River Trust Richard Parry swapped his day job for volunteering when he joined the crew of Chesterfield Canal Trust work boat Python. The 94-year-old ex-British Waterways narrowboat is used for clean-ups along the canal, partially sponsored by CRT. It is crewed by volunteers and is usually out working for…
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Swansea Canal project reaches major milestone

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Mark Lancaster

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October 31, 2023

SWANSEA Canal Society recently reached a major milestone in its work to regenerate the historic Swansea Canal. After several years of work by society volunteers and supporters, a previously infilled section of the waterway in Clydach became a water-filled mooring basin. The newly completed basin was flooded for the first time during an event attended…
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TPT November 2023

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