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Open Day on the Chesterfield

IT WAS way back in the 60s that the Retford & Worksop Boat Club was formed and tirelessly worked to prevent the closing of the Chesterfield Canal and then making sure it was kept in working condition.

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Published: 27 March 2017

The transfer 'bubbles' again

IT LOOKS like the proposal to transfer of EA waterways has bubbled to the surface in parliament again. However, this time, the wording suggests all of the Environment Agency's navigable inland waterways, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 23 March 2017

CaRT not wanted

IN 2014 I attended a meeting chaired by the Chairman of the Basingstoke Canal Society, writes Ken Churchill.

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Published: 23 March 2017

Disillusioned and disgusted

ALTHOUGH I am no longer a regular columnist for narrowboatworld, I do still take a great interest in all things canal related; after all my livelihood still depends on them. However the more I see and hear of today's canal society and infrastructure in general, the more depressed it makes me, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 23 March 2017

Still another T&M marina

DURING that period when the then British Waterways were persuading people to construct marinas, three massive ones were built on the eastern section of the Trent & Mersey Canal—then the boating industry went into decline.

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Published: 23 March 2017

Illegally moored boaters will be evicted

RESIDENT boaters on the Cam in Cambridge are to be evicted from the waterway if they do not have a legal mooring on the river and no licence.

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Published: 22 March 2017

Another plan for Weavers' Triangle

IT WAS shortly before the downturn in the building industry when the 'masterplan' for the Weavers' Triangle on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley was first instigated.

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Published: 22 March 2017

Staffs & Worcs closed

THE Staffs & Worcs was closed yesterday (Tuesday) above its junction with the Stourbridge Canal at Rocky Lock.

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Published: 22 March 2017

Better at Sawley Spring event

THE annual Sawley Marina Spring event—Sawley Spring Market—is on track to be bigger and better than ever before.

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Published: 22 March 2017

Narrowboats and Weaver swing bridge

MANY boaters have asked about the height restriction of Acton Bridge over the Weaver that at present is unable to be swung owing to repairs.

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Published: 22 March 2017

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