AFTER obtaining a court order against illegally moored boats on the Thames, they have been ordered to leave.
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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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A MAN is intent upon pulling his 45ft narrowboat 10 miles along the Bridgewater Canal to raise funds for charity.
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Firstly, my sympathies go out to Allan Green's mother and family in such tragic circumstances, writes Kevin McNiff.
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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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LAST weekend my wife and I travelled from our house to our boat at Droitwich Spa Marina writes Peter Ponting.
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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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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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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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