narrowboatworld
  • Home
  • Information
  • Contact Us
  • Hire Guide

Cash for Mon & Brec

A TOTAL of £1.5m funding is allowing further restoration of the Mon & Brec, that has now started.

Details
Published: 14 May 2012

A silly chugger?

SOME weeks ago British Waterways held a press briefing on its plans for fundraising as the Canal & River Trust (CART). That press briefing confirmed several narrowboatworld reports that CART would not be a membership organisation.

Details
Published: 13 May 2012

More Buckingham Canal restoration

AYLESBURY Vale District Council has now given planning permission for the restoration of a stretch of the Buckingham Canal at Bourton Meadow.

Details
Published: 13 May 2012

Possible manslaughter charge

HAVING read the comments with regard to the newly installed hazard to our heads at Falling Sands Lock I think it pertinent to make comment, writes Pam Pickett.

Details
Published: 12 May 2012

Another CART committee

THE latest committee for the Canal & River Trust (CART) is the Volunteering Advisory Committee.

Details
Published: 11 May 2012

Leicester Arm opens today

AFTER many weeks of closure and restrictions, the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is open again to boating today (Friday).

Details
Published: 11 May 2012

Completely lost the plot

WHEN I first saw the picture of the RSJ that had been installed at neck height on the Staffs & Worcs lock, I thought it must be a mistake, writes James Henry.

Details
Published: 10 May 2012

No new canal link

THE proposed plans for a new canal link of the Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal to Dymock have fallen through.

Details
Published: 10 May 2012

Off with our heads

HERE is a picture of the latest Health & Safety lunacy—a hand rail support designed to chop off boaters heads!

Details
Published: 10 May 2012

Quieter exhaust water-lock

A NEW design of exhaust water-lock has been produced by Vetus, that is claimed to result in half the normal noise level.

Details
Published: 09 May 2012

Page 1151 of 1381

  • 1146
  • 1147
  • 1148
  • 1149
  • 1150
  • 1151
  • 1152
  • 1153
  • 1154
  • 1155

Latest

  • Hot weather closes swing bridge
  • Reason for major leak in Scottish aqueduct
  • Getting good trade at canal market
  • Swans crushed to death by hire boats
  • Victor tells of a very good week that wasn't
  • More lock keeper volunteers wanted
  • Not a very good Thursday
  • Tragic loss of mother of five drowned in canal
  • Council backed down about pupils using unsafe towpath
  • Two new signings at Mercia Marina
  • Chesterfield Canal spill cleared at last
  • Huddersfield Broad and Sheffield & Sth Yorks closed
  • WaterNav extends online
  • The boats are arriving for crick show
  • Police renew appeal over new born baby death
  • Get a camera!
  • Grantham Canal supported by MPs
  • Carrying on his fathers' tradition...
  • Forum heard of Montgomery Canal activity
  • Macclesfield Canal still closed after sunken narrowboat removed

Search