A canal boat holiday is a social activity, so when the job of planning a canal holiday gets dumped
Canal and Waterway Features
Humorous experiences to canal tips, best pubs and places to visit
Our Canal Top Lists consist of a collection of canal and waterways features happenings from humorous experiences to canal tips, best pubs and places to visit.
Bluffers Guide to Canals – talking like a hairy boater
Here’s 10 things NOT to shout on your canal holiday if you want people to think you are a real hairy
10 Odd Canal Holiday Happenings
My own oddest sight was when boating past the mills of Leigh on the Leeds Liverpool, we passed
Some Irish waterway discoveries
For personal reasons quite unconnected to canals I recently travelled by car across the middle of Ireland. However, being the waterways nerd that I am I took the opportunity to take a bit of a detour to look at bits of the Grand Canal on the way.
The Launch of the Canal and River Trust
The Canal and River Trust launch event for our area was at the Ellesmere maintenance yard in Shropshire which is an architectural gem of a particular idiosyncratic organic order.
Wonderful Wappenshall
Wappenshall junction is where the ‘new’ line of the Newport branch of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal joined the old line of the Shrewsbury canal in 1835, all shortly to become part of the Shropshire Union conglomeration.
Taylors Yard Chester
A transformation is taking place at Taylors Yard in Chester. The old Shropshire Union Canal Company dockyard has at last been let to a new tenant by British Waterways and a long overdue restoration and reclamation has begun.Good news then?
Art on the Canals
There are eighteen separate pieces of art sited around Ellesmere at present with more to come later this year. They all, therefore, impact on the canal environment in some way and therefore have relevance to those of us whose prime concern is with the historic canal heritage.
Looking back on a canal life
Tony wonders if canal restoration has worked. "In the sense that the water channel for pleasure boat use has been preserved and extended then canal restoration has been a great success.".