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Canal Society |
Website address |
Society description |
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Boaters Christian Fellowship |
www.boaterschristianfellowship.org.uk |
BCF was formed in 1995 and now has more
than 650 members, with more than 300 privately owned
boats, although owning a boat is not a condition of
membership. |
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Cotswold Canals Trust |
www.cotswoldcanals.com |
The Cotswold Canals Trust are working
with British Waterways and the Cotswold Canals
Partnership to restore the Stroudwater Canal and Thames
& Severn Canal through the glorious Cotswold Hills. |
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Foxton Inclined Plane Trust |
www.fipt.org.uk |
Foxton Inclined Plane Trust, exists to
promote the restoration of the Victorian boat lift to
full working order. We also run the award winning Foxton
Canal Museum at the famous Foxton Locks. |
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Fourteen locks Canal Centre |
www.fourteenlocks.co.uk |
A newly refurbished cafe and heritage
Centre at the top of South Wales historic Fourteen Locks
Flight on the lower section of the Mon & Brec Canal.
Open 7 Days a week. |
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Friends of President |
http://www.nb-president.org.uk/ |
The coal burning steam narrow-boat
President is owned by the Black Country Living Museum,
and maintained and operated by 'Friends of President'. |
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Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal Society |
www.mbbcs.org.uk |
Restoring the canal through Bolton Bury
and Salford to rejoin the national waterways network. |
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Old Union Canal Society |
www.fipt.org.uk/Local.htm |
The Old Union Canals Society is dedicated
to the promotion and protection of the Leicestershire &
Northants Union and the ‘old’ Union Canals, Leicester to
Norton Junction. It has its own moorings. |
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Packet-boat 'Duchess Countess' Trust |
www.duchess-countess.org.uk |
The Trust aims to re-create the Duchess
Countess, the famous last passenger packet boat,
destroyed in the 1950s, as a skills-training in wooden
boat-building, an educational facility and a tourist
attraction. |
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Railway & Canal Historical Society |
www.rchs.org.uk |
National organisation bringing together
everyone interested in the history of transport to
encourage research into the topic. |
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River Weaver Navigation Society |
www.rwns.co.uk |
The society is dedicated to preserving,
protecting and improving the River Weaver
from Winsford to its confluence with the Manchester Ship
Canal. |
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Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust |
www.sncanal.org.uk/links2.htm |
The Trust promotes regeneration of the
25-mile canal line from Norbury Junction, on the
Shropshire Union Canal, to Shrewsbury. |
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Southampton Canal Society |
www.whitenap.plus.com |
The Society, through its regular monthly
meetings of illustrated talks and canal outings, helps
many waterways and associated organisations with
donations and assistance with working parties. |
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South Pennine Boat club |
www.southpennineboatclub.co.uk |
Private Member's Boat Club, situated on
the Calder & Hebble Navigation. It provides its Members
with strictly non residential Moorings for inland
Waterways Craft, a Dry Dock and an active Social
Calendar. |
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The Kennet & Avon Canal Trust Museum |
www.katrust.org.uk |
The museum tells the story of the 87.5
miles and 200 years of the canal through inception,
building, working, decline, reconstruction to present
day. Acknowledged to be one of the best small canal
museums in the country. |
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The Pirate Club |
www.thepiratecastle.org |
The Pirate Club is a community boat club
on the Regents Canal in Camden Town. We offer canoeing,
kayaking and trips out. We run canal cruises and trips
can be for the day or for weekend or week-long canal
holidays. |
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The Saturn Project |
www.saturnflyboat.org.uk |
Saturn is the only floating example of a
horse-drawn Shropshire Union fly-boat. Restored to her
former glory she attends north west waterway rallies and
events, often still horse-drawn. |
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The Stover Canal Society |
www.stovercanal.co.uk |
The canal was built in 1792 by James
Templer to transport clay to the Potteries, granite to
London, Liverpool and other cities. It closed in 1939,
restoration stared in 1999. |
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Wabash & Erie Canal Park |
www.wabashanderiecanal.org/ |
The Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal,
Inc. is dedicated to the preservation of the stretch of
the Wabash & Erie Canal located in Delphi, Indiana, USA. |
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The Weavers' Triangle Visitor Centre |
www.weaverstriangle.co.uk |
Visitor Centre at Burnley Wharf on the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal that tells the story of the
cotton industry and the canal in Burnley. |
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The Working Boat Project |
www.heritageworkingboats.org.uk |
The Project Volunteers maintain and
operate a fleet of eleven historic working boats ,
taking them to canal events, rallies and festivals
throughout the midlands and further afield. |
Links to UK
Canal Society and Waterway Organisations Websites
