tpt September 2022

Lock gate project shortlisted for technical innovation award

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September 20, 2022

AN INNOVATIVE fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) lock gate project carried out by ECS Engineering Services has been shortlisted for Technical Innovation of the Year at The London Construction Awards. Installed at Sunbury Dry Dock on the River Thames for the Environment Agency, the lock gates are the first set constructed from moulded FRP in the UK.…
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Riverside Museum, Reading!

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September 17, 2022

Nicola Lisle continues her museum series with a visit to this delightful museum on the River Kennet. THE Riverside Museum in Reading is one of the town’s unexpected delights. A branch of Reading Museum, it is housed in a Victorian sewage pumping station at Blake’s Lock, just outside the town centre and close to the…
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Annual Balsam Bashing!

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September 16, 2022

NINETEEN volunteers recently turned up at Haslam Park, Preston, for what has become an annual event – the Balsam Bash. It was a record turnout with members of IWA Lancashire & Cumbria Branch, Lancaster Canal Trust and Friends of Haslam Park taking part. The Lancaster Canal borders the park and so far, not a lot…
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Campaigners win battle to protect boaters’ facilities

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September 15, 2022

THANKS to campaigning from IWA, Fox Boats and the Middle Level Commissioners, Fenland District Council has reversed its decision to remove the important boaters’ facilities block on March Riverside. When local IWA members first learned about the March Future High Street Fund, they were delighted that it recognised the potential of the waterway passing through…
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Inside the September issue

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August 23, 2022

Inside the September issue of Towpath Talk, boaters are being urged to conserve water after drought conditions left the canal system struggling to cope; and the Canal & River Trust has started work to replace Black Cock Bridge on the Daw End Branch Canal in Walsall Wood.
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