ONE of Surrey's most distinctive charity projects, the Swingbridge community boat programme (part of the Surrey Care Trust) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
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WE HAVE now had the first hard frost on the Trent & Mersey Canal (in the Stone region) and some of the trees are starting to change colour. The 'silly season' is over for another year and the volume of boats out and about is dropping rapidly, writes Ralph Freeman.
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AFTER a review of the operation of the slipway at West Stockwith Basin on the Chesterfield Canal, the decision has been made to close it unless Canal & River Trust staff are available to supervise.
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I must say that I am most impressed by the attitude and efforts of CaRT to resolve the issues of boats stranded by the breach, writes Kevin McNiff.
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A NEW bridge over the Stroudwater has been officially opened, furthering the completion of that part of the Cotswold Canals restoration.
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MANY of you should have noticed items appearing in narrowboatworld written by Frank Hurst, his latest being on how the breach on the Trent & Mersey Canal is affecting his fellow boaters.
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THE Aylesbury Canal Society will be relocating in 2013 to its new home 'Circus Field' on the outskirts of the town alongside the canal at Broughton.
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A RESIDENT boater at Shardlow Marina on the Trent has been found drowned in the marina.
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OUR rather outspoken contributor, Peter Ponting, has just finished five and half months cruising the system, and shares his experiences:
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I was somewhat disappointed to find John Dodwell felt the need to mis-quote me in order to make his point in his recent article published in narrowboatworld, writes Ralph Freeman.
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