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Still no Customer Service Facility at Hawkesbury

THERE IS STILL NO Customer Service Facility at Hawkesbury Junction.

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Published: 30 August 2025

Why is this water wasted?

A BOATER HAS ASKED why in this time of acute water shortage is it being wasted in Chester on the Shropshire Union?

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Published: 29 August 2025

Demolished wall causes Stratford Canal water shortage

About 20 years ago, alas in the BW days, someone decided to demolish the wall between the GU and a short Stratford Canal pound. writes Mike Todd.

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Published: 29 August 2025

Should boater pay if prevented from moving?

WHEN BOATERS HAVE their boats stranded on drained canals they obviously cannot move.

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Published: 29 August 2025

Visitors desert Foxton Locks

EVEN THOUGH THE TRUST advertised 'come and explore Foxton' it was deserted, surrounded by steel fencing.

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Published: 29 August 2025

Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Wigan could be blocked for weeks more

A HUGE AND COMPLEX civil engineering project in Wigan is showing no sign of reaching a conclusion after a water main burst underneath the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, writes I Dugald Campbell.

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Published: 29 August 2025

Coventry Canal could be closed from Fradley to Tamworth

THERE IS WORRY as to whether the Coventry Canal will be closed through lack of water.

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Published: 29 August 2025

Winter works brought forward to summer

THE WINTER WORKS ON THE Pocklington Canal have been brought forward to be done in summer.

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Published: 29 August 2025

Boater walks from Land's End to John O'Groats

THEN WALKED BACK AGAIN!

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Published: 28 August 2025

Two long lock closures repaired

IT WAS IN OCTOBER of last year that navigation through the top Lock 58 on the Tardebigge Flight was restricted.

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Published: 28 August 2025

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Latest

  • New Trent suspension bridge lifted in place next month
  • Taken for £2,000 after accepting cookies
  • Banbury Canal Festival will take place but with fewer boats
  • Leicester water point no longer available
  • Fallen debris closes canal
  • The story of Dawn Rose
  • Black swan terrorising other birds and tourists
  • Broken lock closes Aston Canal
  • Eyesores on the canals
  • Two more Customer Service Facilities closed
  • Lock closure causes financial loss for 'Danny'
  • Lock work closes Cam for 20 months
  • Regent's Canal still closed
  • Navigations starting to re-open
  • Stupid wastage of water at Hillmorton locks
  • Where have all the ducks gone?
  • Boats being untied from moorings in Bristol
  • Weaver now totally cut-off
  • Getting away from the closed waterways
  • Coir rolls are a waste of time and money

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