Towpath Talk - 2022-05-26

• Canalathon challenge launched
• Get snapping
• Leaky dams
• Towpath contracts
• HS2 and towpath improvemen­ts highlighte­d at CRT’s user forum
• Covid jabs for boaters
• Lichfield canal volunteers nominated for awards
• Interim leadership team announced for IWA
• Liverpool’s historic docks receive Blue Flag awards
• Montgomery triathlon hailed a success by organisers
• Award winners:
• Local volunteers rewarded with this year’s Tetlow Cup
• Eric welcomes friends old and new to coffee morning
• Historic boats back in town at NWM
• MP impressed with Montgomery Canal visit
• RNLI and IWAI Dunrovin key handover ceremony takes place
• Lottery boost for pilot mental health support for boaters
• Characters of the Cut
• NCA members catch up at cottage complex
• Lapal Canal Trust celebrates £10,000 cash boost
• IWA board visits Bedford water park
• Stores team up with community boat Electra
• Work in progress at Whitehouse Wharf
• Shaping the channel ready for lining ‘sandwich’
• Saving Salterhebb­le Lock Cottage
• Branch hosts sustainabl­e boating forum
• Get involved – work party dates
• Campaign gathering at Chester
• Festival fun at Ware
• Birmingham Festival boat parade
• Leftovers from Liverpool
• Heritage under the hammer
• Canal heritage trail at Sefton
• Kyles to make a splash to mark 150th anniversar­y
• Exploring your canal ancestry: In memoriam
• VIP boat trip aboard the ‘Danny’ launches the 2022 season
• Flushed with success as new loo opens
• Golden Duck race will be sure to raise the rafters!
• Culture at the canal
• Wey & Arun trust to hold 49th Poddle
• Medway Queen open for Jubilee weekend
• Out and about with Alarum Production­s
• WHAT’S ON IN JUNE
• June 2022 Full steam ahead for the Braunston Historic Narrowboat Rally & Canal Festival 2022
• Canal boating: is it still the low-cost living option?
• Actor in the wings to open new Shakespear­e Marina
• Aquavista announces Castle Marinas rebrand
• A great gift for Father’s Day
• Major investment at Evesham Marina
• Insulation specialist­s extend service to the boating community
• New boat window ticks all the boxes
• A memoir of a childhood and the sea
• A must-have history of the BCN
• Reviewer: Alison Alderton
• Navigating the Middle Levels
• Book launches at Braunston rally
• A short break in a luxury glamping wagon
• Dudley Canal Network – Tunnel Network ticket for four – worth £33.60*
• Carnauba Wax spray presentati­on boxed set – worth £16.99 + p&p*
• Whilton Marina or Venetian Marina gift voucher – worth £100*
• Ecoworks Starter Kit – worth £49.80
• Afternoon tea for two at Boat St Cafe on Mercia Marina – worth £29.90*
• Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography – worth £45
• Two Family Passes for the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port – worth £25 each
• We Don’t Go Far But We Do See Life – worth £7.99
• Basic Boat Liability Company insurance – worth up to £95.55*
• Celebratin­g the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
• Puffer celebrates 40 years of cruising
• Boaters object to controvers­ial pub plans
• Hull protection using chlorinate­d rubber paint
• Marina builds green credential­s with Bilgeaway
• IWA holds first clean-up through Milton Keynes since October 2019
• READER ADVERTS
• Floating reed beds add splash of greenery
• Volunteers give a helping hand to bats
• Plants along the towpath – June
• Punting alive and well at Wigtown
• The Union – or the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal as it was known
• Caledonian Canal
• Bicentenar­y celebratio­ns on the Caledonian and Union Canals
• Challenge yourself
• Rusack’s Bridge named in honour of canal stalwart Ronnie Rusack
• Scottish canals work updates
• Seagull Trust Cruises need you
• Dandelion Project brings growing and gardens to the canals
• Musical world premiere celebrates canal anniversar­ies
• Digbeth Branch Canal
• The Towpath Angler
• The Wet Web
• Towpath views
• Swan guard
• Walking to The Ocean
• POET’S CORNER
• Advice for boaters when passing anglers
• The Canal & River Trust’s Waterway Code for Anglers & Boaters gives the following advice:
• Boat shows, caravan shows and conference­s – it’s all going on in Birmingham
• Stating the obvious

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