THE Friends of the Cromford Canal, that operate the 76 years old narrowboat Birdswood are looking to engage more volunteers to operated the boat during the season.
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A 'LEAK' has been discovered on the Peak Forest Canal, which is now closed to navigation until further notice.
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WE ARE told that there is to be a new floating mooring pontoon on the Macclesfield Canal between bridges 35 and 36 in Macclesfield.
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CANALS and the river navigations of the UK, were mostly built at a time when ‘steady' was a brisk walking pace and ‘very fast' was the speed of a galloping horse, writes Orph Mable.
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THOUGH it was hoped to remove the car from the Rochdale Canal in Manchester, it is still there, though hoped to be removed later today.
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I HAVE been involved in a number of Charity organisations, including being chairperson of two charities, writes Peter Ponting.
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IN ADDITION to its many events, Mercia Marina is launching a new programme of monthly food and craft markets starting on Easter Monday.
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SOME nine months after narrowboatworld revealed that the Waterways Ombudsman Scheme operated by Canal & River Trust (CaRT) was a complete sham (Waterways Ombudsman Committee scrapped) a Press release will be made, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Waterway Historian Mark Davies told actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales that he felt 'ashamed' to welcome people to Isis Lock during the filming of their Great Canal Journeys television documentary.
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FIRST it was the demise of lock keepers that have been taken over by unpaid volunteers, and now the trend of Canal & River Trust is to get rid of its mechanised bridge keepers.
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