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Bulbourne workshops to be developed

THERE are plans to turn the Grade II listed 1882, Bulbourne Workshops on the Grand Union Canal into homes.

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Published: 03 June 2016

Another sinking

ANOTHER narrowboat had to be pumped-out as the owners realised their boat was sinking in the Lee Navigation at Enfield.

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Published: 03 June 2016

Emails: Banners everywhere

The banners are everywhere. There is one at the bottom of Hurleston Locks, right next to the sign saying Hurleston Locks, and one at the top (in case you missed the sign on the service block which says Welcome to Hurleston Services, or the sign at the top lock which says Hurleston Locks).

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Published: 03 June 2016

£40 to use the Bridgewater

PEEL Holdings, owners of the Bridgewater Canal, have decreed that Canal & River Trust licence owners will have to pay for use of the waterway after seven days.

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Published: 03 June 2016

The ‘Aunt Sally' syndrome

A FEW of you may recollect me writing of a comment made to me prior to the take-over by the Canal & River Trust, it being that as British Waterways it was fed up with being an ‘Aunt Sally', unable to avoid whatever was thrown at it, write Pam Pickett.

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Published: 03 June 2016

Boaters raise money

THE generous boaters at Lemonroyd Marina near Castleford on the Aire & Calder Navigation recently raised £117 for Cancer Research UK.

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Published: 02 June 2016

Onley marina going ahead

MY EARLIER update on the [Onley on the Oxford Canal] marina would seem to have been ill informed! It seems that though the pegs have been removed, the marina plan is still on and exhibited at Crick under the name Dunchurch Pools Marina, writes Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 02 June 2016

Email: Learn from history

So CaRT will be using bog mats and dumper trucks to access the work area. This begs the question how much greater volumes of spoil were moved out and building material moved in when canals were constructed?

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Published: 02 June 2016

Email: Visitors the only concern

I feel that the Trust has only one major concern and that is visitors, hence all the notices that Keith Gudgin showed.

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Published: 01 June 2016

Wasting money again

IT'S BANK Holiday Monday and this morning two CaRT workers came along and fitted a sign onto the gate here at Fradley, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 01 June 2016

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