Towpath Talk - 2024-04-25

• Election address from Fund Britain’s Waterways campaign
• Date for Robbie’s diary as he opens ecology park
• Business body backs campaign for waterways funding
• Spring launch for Sharpness 150 landmark
• Health check for ‘stream in the sky’
• Pre-bookable moorings boost for boaters visiting London
• The green and the blue – and the shape of things to come?
• Canal Boat Diaries moors up for a new series
• Experts to help trust with climate challenges
• Characters of the Cut
• Celebratio­n time
• World’s smallest working light tower goes green
• Puffer may get into the spirit
• Work parties
• Volunteers sought to act as IWA legal advisers
• Exploring the history of two engineerin­g marvels
• Tall ships and music will rock the docks
• Steam at the Lift spectacula­r
• Reviving a forgotten canal with art and sound
• Ahoy Poirot!
• WHAT’S ON IN MAY
• New industrial quarter at Black Country Living Museum
• Investment in Midlands distributi­on centre at LKQ headquarte­rs
• Hydrogen now on sale in a first for Cheshire’s Aqueduct Marina
• Couple applaud launch of their new Ovation narrowboat
• Barrus introduces the HyTime project
• Here we grow again! Aquavista in Bloom takes root for its second year
• Shining a spotlight on Britain’s canals
• May 2024 Portuguese-style sardines
• The waterside pub with a pig’s tale
• Sustainabl­e boating – starting from the top
• Tech talk: steering and propulsion
• Learning to love the Liffey
• Carrybridg­e RNLI features in popular documentar­y
• A boat-dwelling Scottie and Westie
• Walking the Royal Military Canal path
• New outdoor centre planned for Twechar
• Gathering of heavy horses to celebrate The Kelpies’ 10th anniversar­y
• Days Out – Llangollen
• The Towpath Angler
• A LIFE ON THE BOATS Alice Lapworth h (1944–2024)
• Adios to the Taurean adorers
• Restoratio­n, enlightenm­ent and serenity
• Finding solutions: pioneers create products that are kind to the planet
• Back on board
• The Wet Web
• Canals and the rural economy focus minds at waterways parliament­ary group meeting Story by: Phil Pickin
• Where did that word come from?
• Once more unto the breach... the fight for funding must go on to keep everyone safe

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