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Calder & Hebble closed for 12 months

THE Canal & River Trust tell that the Calder & Hebble Navigation will be closed for 12 months!

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Published: 19 February 2020

'Please make sure you close the lock gates...

F2FloodLOck

Sawley Flood Lock this morning, Tuesday, is again a flood lock no longer.

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Published: 18 February 2020

Salutary lesson of 'life afloat' on inland waterways

JONATHAN C Purton’s experience of living aboard is a salutary lesson for everyone 'taken in' by the idyll that is life afloat on our beautiful, sunny and warm inland waterways.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Naïve narrowboat buyers

JUST read yet another article from a naïve narrowboat buyer, writes John Howard.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Three men in a boat

INSPIRED by Jerome K Jerome’s 1889 novel, Three Men In A Boat, three men are to row from Oxford to London in a fundraising challenge.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Man in canal was murdered

THE police have revealed that a man discovered in a canal had been murdered.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Another non reason mysterious closure!

THE navigation closure notices nowadays from Canal & River Trust are completely devoid of information.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Victor: And the rains came...

THE rains came indeed with one storm piling on another flooding the rivers.

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Published: 16 February 2020

Winter living on a narrowboat

AS A REGULAR reader of your site I have an idea you have done something like this before, but would like to tell of my own experience of narrowboat living, writes Jonathan C Purton.

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Published: 14 February 2020

Will CaRT now sort its own 'inappropriate' mooring?

BOATERS are asking that now Canal & River Trust is introducing 'inappropriate' mooring will it now moor its own 'appropriately'?

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Published: 14 February 2020

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Latest

  • Boaters—take care on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath
  • The water shortage
  • Two navigations reopened
  • Grounding advice from River Canal Rescue
  • Foxton and Watford flights to close
  • No increase in water levels on Leeds & Liverpool Canal
  • 50 closures plus 59 restrictions decimating the waterways
  • Leaves a lot to be desired
  • Doing it the hard way
  • Four stoppages caused by need for repairs
  • At last a bit of sense tells Victor
  • Bosley Flight repair to take four weeks
  • Swing Bridges now operational
  • Another leak yesterday
  • Floating market this weekend
  • Another leak on the Llangollen
  • Sykehouse Lock on the New Junction fails again
  • Large section of Leeds & Liverpool closed again
  • Basingstoke Canal closed
  • Next May until possible Anderton Boat Lift reopening

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