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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 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 British Waterways is appealing to dog owners to stop littering the branches of Britain’s hedgerows with plastic bags filled with their pets’ poo. These smelly non biodegradable eyesores have become a common sight across the nation’s canals, parks and countryside. With dog owners picking up their pet’s faeces but then not following the Countryside . . . → Read More: Dog walkers asked to take lead by cutting the crap 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 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 FIVE authorities have joined forces in a bid to stop antisocial behaviour along Boston’s waterways. Sluice Bridge and Anton’s Gowt have been hot spots for irresponsible acts in recent months.Such acts include jumping from the railway bridge, trespassing on moorings and interfering with boats. British Transport Police, Network Rail, British Waterways, Boston Borough Council’s . . . → Read More: FIVE authorities have joined forces in a bid to stop antisocial behaviour along Boston’s 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 There are 93,000 square miles in the UK. We tend to only hear about two of them, the square miles of the City and Westminster, and have felt badly let down by both of them in recent years. “Your Square Mile” is about enabling citizens to make changes in as many of the other . . . → Read More: Your Square Mile – The Big Society |
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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