DRESSED in old costumes of the day, boaters and visitors celebrated 200 years of the Grand Union Canal on Monday (12th October).
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NEXT year Inland Waterways Association is to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Tom Rolt, one of its 'founding fathers'
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THE closure of the Shropshire Union Canal by the leak at Shebdon Embankment has led to more calls for compensation from Market Drayton's mayor.
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THOUGH the Hollinwood Canal is infilled by Manchester Road Bridge in Droylsden, the possibility of its eventual restoration has been guaranteed by the erection of a footbridge over the former waterway at an height to allow boats.
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THE Environment Agency tells that the issue of boat licences on the Thames 'has risen 30%'.
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THE minutes of British Waterways board for March 2009 record some interesting information, writes Allan Richards.
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IT WAS only a few years ago that canalside developments were the great money-making endeavours for many developers, but most have fallen by the wayside.
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RESIDENT boater Ian Gill, who has lived on his boat for the past 15 years on the Kennet & Avon Canal without paying any mooring fee whatsoever is complaining bitterly now that BW has caught up with him.
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TWO bodies were discovered in the waterways last week, with one in the Grand Union Canal and one in the Montgomery Canal.
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EARLY attendees at British Waterways Annual Meeting in Birmingham yesterday (6th October) would have been greeted by the sight of BW's Chief Executive, Robin Evans, attempting to get pickets from Unite to disperse, writes Allan Richards.
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