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Grantham lock rebuilt at astonishing rate

THE Grantham Canal Society has enjoyed the services of the volunteers at four Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) camps during July, whose ages range from 18 to 80, and have rebuilt the brick walls at Lock 15 at an astonishing rate—almost faster than the Grantham Canal Society (GCS) regular teams could pour the concrete!

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Published: 01 August 2016

Intends pulling boat ten miles

A MAN is intent upon pulling his 45ft narrowboat 10 miles along the Bridgewater Canal to raise funds for charity.

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Published: 01 August 2016

Keep it to the front

Firstly, my sympathies go out to Allan Green's mother and family in such tragic circumstances, writes Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 01 August 2016

Harebrained duckweed scheme

THE scientists of the Wellcome Trust at Euston believe that as they have seen ducks eating duckweed it could be the new super-food and want to propagate it on the Regents Canal!

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Published: 01 August 2016

An hour later...

LAST weekend my wife and I travelled from our house to our boat at Droitwich Spa Marina writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 01 August 2016

Police order moorings ceasefire

WHEN a local equestrian centre started to erect a fence inside the existing fence of the moorings at Slapton below Linslade on the Grand Union Canal, the moorers were up-in-arms, with the dispute turning nasty.

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Published: 01 August 2016

The safer way

MY FIRST experience of using narrow canal locks was in 1961 as a ‘spare body' on a pair of Willow Wren boats. I had been used to barges on the Trent but narrow locks required different techniques, writes Mike Stone.

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Published: 31 July 2016

Broken lock closes S&W

THE broken Rodbaston Lock (35)  has closed the Staffs & Worcs Canal below Gaily.
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Published: 31 July 2016

Boat thefts

THE recent theft of a boat from Mercia Marina has many features in common with another boat theft a month or so earlier from Kings Bromley Marina, writes David Hymers.

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Published: 29 July 2016

Safest place when locking

IT IS ALWAYS sad to read of the death of anyone and my sympathies go out to all those affected by the death of Alan Green with the sinking of nb Sonskit. Especially so to his mother who witnessed it and to whom it must have been a terrifying experience, writes Derek Willetts.

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Published: 29 July 2016

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