MANY lock gates, particularly on the Trent & Mersey Canal, are extremely difficult to move, being wrongly installed, and it is a matter of some urgency that they are rectified before more people find cruising too much like hard work, and give it up.
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FORMER Cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, who is at present filming the television series Great British Railway Journeys, paid a visit to Tooley's Boatyard.
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THERE is to be a boatyard built on Brandy Island near Buscot Lock on the Thames despite opposition from the National Trust.
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There are plans for the development of Wood Wharf on the Thames at Blackwall, with architects appointed to devise a master plan for the whole 20 acres.
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Simon Grindrod is convinced that a lot of boaters agree with his assumption that it's okay that 'a high proportion of boaters are having(?) to break the rules'.
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Methinks Simon Grindrod wants to have his cake and eat it! Writes Peter Foster.
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IRELAND Waterways too is applying for planning permission for resident boats on its waterways in addition to Scottish Waterways, as recently published in narrowboatworld.
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THE Inland Waterways Association Milton Keynes Branch has adopted Fenny Stratford Lock on the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes.
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LINDA ANDREWS is to be applauded for her diligence regarding night cruising (Night cruising—Friday, 14 September 2012 09:43), which I suspect is in response to my piece Night Travel, writes Maffi.
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