WANTING to blow the cobwebs away I have tramped the towpaths of various parts of the Trent & Mersey Canal over the past three days as I want to produce a blog of pictures.
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THE scheme for volunteer lock keepers seems to have produced mixed experiences, if the recent piece on narrowboatworld is anything to go by. As that article mentioned, we had one very welcome experience this year and a couple where they made very little difference.
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THOUGH there have been favourable comments, there have been many complaints about the attitude towards boaters of volunteers assisting at locks during the past season, with some seemingly 'power-mad', whilst others are just not capable.
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ON READING the recent article (Parry on Forgery and Fraud) I was very disconcerted over what came across as insincere comments from Richard Parry in response to Allan Richards' article alleging forgery of a CaRT land holdings map, the Terrier Map for Brentford, writes Del Brenner.
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CANAL & River Trust (CaRT) Chief Executive, Richard Parry, has been in touch over the weekend to dismiss the alleged forgery of a document as entirely irrelevant, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Inland Waterways Association Chester & Merseyside branch members were delighted to donate £800 towards vital repair work on historic narrowboat Ferret which will be carried out at the Heritage Boatyard (at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port) by Boat Museum Society volunteers and trainees on a Heritage Lottery Fund scheme 'Keeping History Afloat'.
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THERE is a proposal to close off the towpath in the canal underpass of the Rochdale Nine—known as the Undercroft—in Manchester in the hours of darkness, to prevent various activities that are rife in the tunnel.
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A PONY has been found dumped in the Oxford Canal near Rugby to drown, for it is believed it was still alive when dragged in.
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RESTORING the Montgomery Canal has always been a slow job, as Harry Arnold and what must now be thousands of other volunteers will testify. But I think the problems are currently much more about funding than any hostility, (Hostility to Montgomery restoration) writes Stephen Lees.
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