THOUGH the repairs to Pinfold Bridge at Wolverhampton were due to be completed by the end of this month, they will not be until the end of May, closing the circular route.
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THE failure of Brick Lock (14) on the Stort and the inability of a quick repair means that boats moored above the stoppage on the river will not have easy access through the lock.
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IT WAS way back in the 60s that the Retford & Worksop Boat Club was formed and tirelessly worked to prevent the closing of the Chesterfield Canal and then making sure it was kept in working condition.
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IT LOOKS like the proposal to transfer of EA waterways has bubbled to the surface in parliament again. However, this time, the wording suggests all of the Environment Agency's navigable inland waterways, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
IN 2014 I attended a meeting chaired by the Chairman of the Basingstoke Canal Society, writes Ken Churchill.
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ALTHOUGH I am no longer a regular columnist for narrowboatworld, I do still take a great interest in all things canal related; after all my livelihood still depends on them. However the more I see and hear of today's canal society and infrastructure in general, the more depressed it makes me, writes Orph Mable.
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DURING that period when the then British Waterways were persuading people to construct marinas, three massive ones were built on the eastern section of the Trent & Mersey Canal—then the boating industry went into decline.
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RESIDENT boaters on the Cam in Cambridge are to be evicted from the waterway if they do not have a legal mooring on the river and no licence.
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IT WAS shortly before the downturn in the building industry when the 'masterplan' for the Weavers' Triangle on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley was first instigated.
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THE Staffs & Worcs was closed yesterday (Tuesday) above its junction with the Stourbridge Canal at Rocky Lock.
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