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26th Aug 2010 The team behind a project which has transformed a stretch of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal has been awarded the National Waterways Excellence Award. British Waterways volunteer coordinator, Steve Bicknell, and volunteer supervisor, Murray Woodward, picked up the accolade after ensuring the success of a pioneering canal adoption scheme which has . . . → Read More: National Waterways Excellence Award for canal adoption scheme CALLS to tidy up an important heritage site on the Trent and Mersey Canal have gone unanswered, it has been claimed. Butt Lane’s Councillor Kyle Robinson says graffiti adorns walls along the canal in Kidsgrove and that a damaged bridge has been left in need of repairs for months. And he accused British Waterways, . . . → Read More: Canal clean-up bid ignored by BW in Kidsgrove By Ben Metz, August 20, 2010 10:56 am Today I start a new project. I’m part of a small team that’s recently obtained funding to explore how our waterways might realise maximum public benefit through its widely anticipated move from government quango to civil society body. It’s an exciting time for Arm’s Length Bodies . . . → Read More: Exploring potential futures within civil society for The UK’s inland waterways 17 August 2010 The Kennet & Avon Canal Trust (KACT) and British Waterways (BW) are asking local people and organisations to nominate interested individuals to become volunteer board members on a new local Waterway Partnership Board that will help govern the 87-mile canal that runs from Reading to Bath. The establishment of a Waterway . . . → Read More: Board members sought for pilot Kennet & Avon Canal Waterway Partnership Over the summer I’ve been cruising (T&M, Shroppie, Bridgewater, Leeds & Liverpool, the Macc and currently the Peak Forest Canal. Talking to boaters along the way, what strikes me is how few actually have any idea of the problems that face the waterways, notably those that are funded by Government. Here’s the reality – . . . → Read More: The State of the Waterways DIY Canal Maintenance…? Well it’s got me thinking anyway, I noticed BW North has started following my various wittering & ramblings today, so I must know what I’m talking about? (Questionable I know), but in a noble attempt to promote something positive, something I’ve been pondering on since the Leeds Liverpool canal closure, I . . . → Read More: Takey Tezey: DIY Canal Maintenance…? Towpath tidy as part of Leeds Year of Volunteering Leeds canal clean-up Volunteers helped to tidy the Leeds waterfront towpath behind the Royal Armouries
Photograph: John Baron/guardian.co.uk A handful of volunteers have cut back overhanging bushes, pulled out weeds and tidied the waterfront towpath in Leeds city centre. Environment Agency volunteers . . . → Read More: Leeds volunteers clean-up waterfront What You Can Do Volunteers add value to British Waterways in an amazing number of ways and this is only going to increase. There is more to volunteering on our waterways then picking up litter and restoring locks, read below for a flavour of opportunities with British Waterways. Tasks generally break down into the . . . → Read More: Volunteering: What You Can Do – British Waterways Droitwich was one of the first places to benefit from the canal building boom The 37-year campaign by the Droitwich Canals Trust to restore the canal has been praised by British Waterways. The restoration of the town’s Barge Canal is due for completion in 2010. The opening of the short linking Junction Canal in . . . → Read More: The Droitwich Canals Trust is praised for its work The Kennet Avon Canal Trust News Friday, 16 July 2010 Almost 200 years to the day that it was first opened, 20 years since the navigation was opened once more, and 10 years after the hugely successful Lottery supported restoration project, the Kennet & Avon Canal could soon reclaim its status as a fully-fledged, . . . → Read More: Kennet & Avon Canal Cruises Into The Future |
During the WWII Britain's gold reserves were secretly transported by canal barge to Liverpool, before being shipped to Canada #canalfactoid
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