SOCIETY MEETING: TUESDAY 3RD JUNE
Canal Society Meeting Tuesday 3rd June. 7.45pm start. ‘Water To Birmingham’ by Lynn Weaver. The story of how water is collected in the Elan Valley and travels the seventy miles to...
ST RICHARD’S CANAL FESTIVAL
Many thanks to everybody who came along to the 2025 St. Richard’s Canal Festival. We do hope you enjoyed the event. If you have any feedback then please email via...
SOCIETY MAGAZINE ’58’
We now publish ’58’ magazine online around 4 weeks after publication to members. Email members are always welcome to request a printed copy or pick up one from our meetings....
HERITAGE OPEN WEEKEND 2025
Heritage Open Days 2025 More details about 2025 will be published soon. The open days dates will be September 20th/21st. The theme of the 2024 Heritage Open days was ‘Routes,...
DROITWICH DIG: 50th ANNIVERSARY
It is hard to believe that it was 50 years ago, in October 1973, that the ‘Droitwich Big Dig’ started involving literally hundreds of volunteers with a massive amount of...
GOVERNMENT FUNDING: KEEP CANALS ALIVE
Visitors to our Facebook page may be aware that the current Government are underfunding the waterways by tens of millions pounds over the next few years. Canal & River Trust...
MUD BOAT ‘TOW’
The old mud boat ‘Tow’, which was moored by the Scarfield Dingle Aqueduct in Alvechurch for a number of years, was eventually taken away for use as a storage facility...
A BIG THANK YOU TO GUEST ESTATE AGENTS
A BIG thank you to Lee Guest, GUEST ESTATE AGENTS, Bromsgrove for kindly providing signage for our society narrowboat ‘Cecilia’ showing our support for the Primrose Hospice. We are proud...
‘CECILIA’ HOMECOMING!
The Society’s community narrowboat ‘Cecilia’ has recently been refurbished and repainted. Refurbishment, including a new floor and seating, took place in 2021/early 2022 and painting in November/December 2022. In all...
LAPAL CANAL TRUST UPDATE
Press Release 14th of June 2021 Lapal Canal Trust signs contract with Land & Water Services Ltd to construct the first part of the restoration of the Dudley No 2...
CHANCE GLASSWORKS TRUST
Chance Heritage Trust Thanks to everybody who came along to our recent ‘Zoom’ meeting with Mark Davies of the Chance Heritage Trust. Although somewhat out of our area our society...
RAISING FUNDS WITH EASYFUNDING
We are primarily raising money to maintain our society narrowboat which is used for mostly educational purposes. We take out groups of children and adults who would not normally be...
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