Late last week, the last of the boats that had been craned-out after the collapse of Lock 12 on the Aylesbury Arm (Aylesbury Arm closed) were back at their moorings at Circus Field in Aylesbury.
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FIGURES recently provided by Canal & River Trust (CaRT) have confirmed that, in terms of maintenance spend, this year will be the worst to date for the waterways of England and Wales.
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BOATERS arriving at Castlefield Basin in Manchester, very rarely stay these days, it being littered with abandoned boats and detritus with one particular boat not above sinking another!
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SWANS are being targeted on the Thames in Windsor, with more following earlier reports. (Swan barbecued).
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AT THE moment the ecologists are in raptures at discovering water vole on the Cain Hill Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal at Devizes.
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FOR 40 years the Waterways Recovery Group (WRG) has been undertaking sterling work on the restoration and maintenance of the canals, but has broken away from this traditional role to undertake resurfacing and widening of towpaths.
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I AM afraid that I totally disagree with Geoff Low (Hope for the Future). The iconic Falkirk Wheel is a novel and functional engineering solution to the age old problem of getting boats from one level to another, writes Orph Mable.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) is still ignoring the wishes of its Trustees and failing to publish its Board papers, writes Allan Richards.
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THOUGH three consultants were sent a tender invitation and specification for the work to undertake a feasibility study of the Inland Waterways Association's proposals for an alternative route for HS2, no one was interested.
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RECENT comments regarding access charges levied by British Waterways and their successors Canal & River Trust (CaRT) are interesting, writes Jimmy Lockwood.
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