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Attempting to stop towpath crime

SUCH is the level of crime and anti-social behaviour on the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal around Pendle, that a pioneering scheme has been started to attempt to combat it.

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Published: 28 September 2009

Where is it?

PETE Jones recently discovered an old family photograph, he believes from the turn of the century, showing his grandfather, and would really like to identify the canal side location.

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Published: 28 September 2009

Was it rescued?

While refurbishing their utility room, Geoff Bennett tells us, he came across this  picture.

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Published: 25 September 2009

Bridge too low for boats

HOPES to restore the Sankey Canal have received a blow with a new bridge over the waterways giving around just four feet air draught.

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Published: 25 September 2009

MP joins in fight against BW

THE Bromsgrove MP, Julie Kirkbride, has joined in the controversy against British Waterways selling  Tardebigge New Wharf cottages.

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Published: 24 September 2009

Want mooring stopped to save towpath

RESIDENTS at Bradford on Avon on the Kennet & Avon Canal want mooring stopped in the town as they believe boats are responsible for crumbling towpaths.

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Published: 24 September 2009

Grantham to be filled in

THE Grantham Canal is to be filled in at Stragglethorpe to facilitate the widening of the A46.

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Published: 24 September 2009

Welsh Restoration

WE MAY no longer have a British Waterways board director with responsibility for boaters (not that the one we had was of any use!) but we do have one with responsibility for Wales—John Bridgeman, writes Allan Richards.
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Published: 23 September 2009

Competition winner

THE winner of the 'Where is it?' narrowboatworld photographic competition has been announced, having correctly named 27 of the photograph locations.

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Published: 04 September 2009

Are the waterways now in better shape?

HERE'S an invitation to all boaters take part in a National Association of Boat Owners' (NABO) Waterways Condition Surveys 2009, to give their opinion of the present state of the waterways.

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Published: 04 September 2009

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Latest

  • Water returns to Montgomery Canal at Llanymynech
  • Breakages close waterways
  • Leicester Section closure extended
  • Who are they kidding?
  • Restoration boosts the Montgomery Canal for visitors and boating
  • Environment Agency steps in to maintain Severn levels
  • Massive length of Leicester Section closed and locked off
  • Possibility of Lancaster Canal closing
  • Hopes to have Bridgewater Canal breach repaired by December
  • Foating market this weekend at Market Drayton
  • Lack of water closes Caldon Canal
  • Four flights closed on Old Main Line
  • Boaters and businesses complain about continous closure of Erewash Canal
  • Various problems close navigations
  • Navigations reopened
  • Eleven stoppages through various reasons
  • Weevils used to kill invasive weed
  • Swans injured on Chesterfield Canal
  • Trent and Kennet & Avon reopened
  • Erewash closed again through lack of water

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