Towpath Talk - 2022-04-28

• Celebrate Jubilee weekend at Crick Boat Show
• Green is the colour for eco-friendly boaters
• Great progress with the appeal to tackle Shropshire’s last highway blockage
• Training centre
• Community funding
• Volunteer plea
• Shipshape and Braunston fashion
• ‘Games On’ focus at West Midlands meeting
• Boaters march on trust’s London office to fight for moorings
• Fund pledges £5m boost for canal project
• Award-winning lock keeper hangs up his windlass
• Lock repairs back on track after storm setbacks
• Lock gates return to Newport
• Mass paddle marks boat lift anniversar­y
• Lock open day at Hebden Bridge
• Local heroes added to Leeds waterfront art trail
• Crane barge joins Cotswold Canals Trust fleet
• Grantham Canal Society’s chief executive stands down
• Great turnout for New Cut ‘Big Litter Pick’
• UCAN joins in Great British Spring Clean
• Parks Trust teams up with Electra to offer new cruising opportunit­ies
• Restoratio­n work to start at Toddbrook Reservoir
• Green boost for Manchester canals
• Doing business on the nation’s canals
• Southall stretch could become ‘Wellbeing Way’
• Clean-up commemorat­es 50th anniversar­y of ASHTAC
• HS2 Bill threatens tranquilli­ty of waterways around Middlewich and Lymm
• Get involved – work party dates
• Aberdulais Aqueduct can be saved
• Supporting Birmingham canal transforma­tion
• £5 million for Staveley restoratio­n
• GPS Marine
• WHAT’S ON IN MAY
• Sponsored walk shines a light on area’s industrial heritage
• New cruises to whet the appetite
• Marina and pub back lock keeper’s defibrilla­tor appeal
• Boat builders receive sustainabi­lity award
• Fundraisin­g success delight
• Waterside lifesaving equipment for use by all
• Marina match-funds Ukraine appeal support
• Free canal boat taster trips at Anglo Welsh open days
• Pubs to enjoy on a narrowboat holiday
• May 2022 Focus on propellers and running gear
• RCR figures show fall in emergency incidents but rise in general call-outs
• Training event was much more fun than watching paint dry!
• WORD SEARCH
• Pets on the Cut
• READER ADVERTS
• with Lee Senior Walking the Union Canal
• Major towpath upgrade to start in May
• Blooming marvellous!
• More than half a million visits to Royal Canal Greenway in first year
• Book brings ‘long-lost treasure’ of Irish angling to new generation­s
• RNLI prepares to move into new Lough Ree boathouse
• Irish president pays tribute to work of Waterways Ireland
• Good news for HMS Caroline
• Words and images: Coolcanals Illustrati­ons: Phillippa Greenwood Photograph­s: Martine O’Callaghan Hertford Union Canal
• The Towpath Angler
• The Wet Web
• Family’s frustratio­n over bridge repairs delay
• Refreshing boaters about the Waterway Code
• End of the lines
• Still a matter of use it or lose it – seven decades on
• Get out on to the water with boat handling taster sessions

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