THOUGH the John Bunyan Community has carried nearly 3,000 passengers since July, it has now been decided to bless the boat 'in recognition of the importance of the boat to the communities in Bedford'.
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I REMEMBER narrowboatworld holding photographic competitions a few years back, but now it seems 'everybody' is now holding such competitions related to the waterways, writes Geoff Lines.
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AT LAST Canal & River Trust is now agreeing with an article published in narrowboatworld concerning the annual cost of maintaining its waterways, writes Allan Richards.
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THREE fire crews turned out to rescue a narrowboat adrift on the Thames at Pangbourne yesterday (Saturday) evening, when its owner came back to see it drifting down river.
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MY WIFE and I were enjoying a late season cruise down the Grand Union Canal through Milton Keynes, when it all changed, writes Geoff Lines.
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WE HAVE been told that just after we included the website of the new Association of Continuous Cruisers, it received lots of interest.
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IT WILL be November before the next update on the stoppage on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal will be given, so it will be sometime after when the waterway will be reopened.
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REGULAR readers of narrowboatworld will remember my previous article concerning the major canal breach at Dutton on the Trent & Mersey Canal and the subsequent unfavourable treatment handed out to Bridgewater Canal licence holders by CaRT, writes Frank Hurst.
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TAKING a leaf out of Stoke Bruerne's wartime week-end, The National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port is also staging a 1940's themed weekend.
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THE works of engineers Jones & Attwood by the side of the Stourbridge Canal is being offered to developers, who will demolish the buildings to erect housing.
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