Towpath Talk - 2022-03-24

• Rush to repair damage as winter works season draws to close
• Easter gathering
• Historic register
• Skipper’s Guide
• Connecting canals and communitie­s
• Eshton Lock repairs delayed by Storm Eunice
• Chichester Canal 2022 photograph­y competitio­n now open
• West Midlands Mayor starts canal restoratio­n work
• Boat Safety Scheme consults on revisions to examinatio­n checks
• Festival to be revived following two-year break
• Sunny weekend attracts crowds to Newark Town Lock
• Sun shines on Anderton open weekend
• New company secretary at Lichfield trust
• Going behind the scenes at Seend Locks
• Chichester Canal creates Canalcast podcast
• Canal’s quarter-million boost from council levy
• Hedging milestone for canal trust
• Clearing fallen trees from the canal bank
• Characters of the Cut Sam Worrall, Heyford Wharf
• Monty dam-busting volunteers triumph
• TV stars back final push for Schoolhous­e Bridge appeal
• April 2022 Getting ready for next stage
• Training day in historic boat handling
• Help make London’s iconic canal festival a success
• A new hands-on challenge?
• Boating parade to celebrate Birmingham’s canals ahead of 2022 Commonweal­th Games
• Get snapping in IWA’s 2022 photograph­y competitio­n
• Pull a replica cuckoo boat and raise funds
• Heritage fly-boat’s new home at Ellesmere Yard
• Heritage under thehammer
• Find family records from cradle to grave
• Moira Canal Festival is back again!
• Sponsored boat haul along Worcester & Birmingham Canal
• The Roving Canal Traders return
• John Bunyan Community Boat’s 2022 cruise programme
• WHAT’S ON IN APRIL
• Easter open day at South Pennine Boat Club
• The Three Shires Easter trips
• Steam ship ‘The Danny’ fires up for record cruising year
• A springtime coastal canal walk Words Wo and photos: Alison Alderton
• Businesses urged to sponsor charity’s community boats
• Building for Birmingham games
• Restoratio­n group switches to greener biofuel
• Marina teams in sponsored walk for Ukraine
• Seacycler clears Bristol Harbour of plastic waste
• Machine Mart launches spring-summer catalogue
• A perfect partner for your engine manual
• Dozens of new boats are joining the Drifters fleet this year
• Canal and Riverside Pub Guide updated for summer
• RCR to launch River Coastal Rescue in Perth
• MIT and Engines Plus join forces to bring electric propulsion solutions to market
• New canals app launched
• Thousands of trees to be planted across canal network
• READER ADVERTS
• Canalside walk open to the public
• Volunteers to share the fruits of their labours at world’s longest community orchard
• Plants along the towpath – April
• How narrowboat Cut Diamond became a longboat Into the Norwegian blue
• Audit finds asset valuation flaws at Scottish Canals
• Blooming boats on the Lowland canals
• See the Cally and Crinan from the air
• Pair’s Explore Your Boundaries documentar­y features the canals
• Celebrate 200 years of the Caledonian and Union Canals
• Mapping Thomas Telford
• New bridge over the Forth & Clyde Canal
• Dudley No Canal
• The Towpath Angler
• The Wet Web
• Derbyshire Mind’s cold-water bathing at Mercia Marina
• New to narrowboat­s?… so were we!
• Are they being serious?

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