IT IS fairly clear that the problem, which led to the pound between Bedford Staircase Locks and Planet Lock on the Caldon canal having to be drained, had nothing to do with BW maintenance procedures, writes Ralph Freeman.
THE Titford Pump that served the Titford Canal is to be reinstated by its original home on the wharf by Titford Pumphouse at Engine Street in Oldbury.
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AFTER 25 years the gates of Linton Lock were deemed past their 'sell-by' date, and have been replaced.
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THE state of some of the facilities around the waterways has prompted a boater to contact British Waterways, and she waits to see what reply she gets.
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WHEN a taxi driver accepted a fare to Aspley Basin in Huddersfield he took it literally—with his taxi ending in the basin itself!
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WITH complaints about the 'eyesore' pontoons and steel piles along Castle Mill Stream in Oxford, British Waterways is re-thinking its £90,000 scheme.
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A RECENT press release from BW claims that this winter our waterways will benefit from 'a £50m vital makeover of dozens of historic locks, bridges and aqueducts, as well as the hanging of over 100 handcrafted oak lock gates', writes Allan Richards.
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LIFELONG waterways enthusiast, photographer and author Harry Arnold was presented with his MBE this month by the Queen.
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ONE DOG was lucky in that he was rescued from a canal, but another was not, and was found dead.
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BARTON Marina on the Trent & Mersey canal is closed-off whilst work on the bywash around Barton Lock takes place.
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