Wappenshall East Basin coming on well now.
At the regular work parties last Friday and Saturday 17th/18th September, another 5 basin slabs were levelled, prepared with polythene liner, support ring spacers and reinforcing mesh, then concreted.
Author: Bernie Jones
Open Garden at Tickethouse Lock House.
There will be an Open Garden next Sunday 5th September from 10:30 till 4:00 pm at this award winning restored Lock House next to the canal in Newport. Come along for coffee and cake...
HADLEY PARK GUILLOTINE LOCKS RESTORATION
After many years of pushing to get this project underway, it is finally happening. Telford and Wrekin Council have engaged a contractor who started work this week. This short video provides more details. Just...
BERKHAMPSTEAD IN THE DRY DOCK
Our amazing team of volunteers have managed to move the restoration of the butty nb BERKHAMPSTEAD on significantly. The exterior of the hull has been needle gunned and wire brushed and three coats of...
VERY HOT WORK!
Last Saturday the Wappenshall Team, aided by colleagues from the Shrewsbury Team, did a fantastic job to pour another 6 concrete slabs into Wappenshall’s East Basin in temperatures of over 30C! It was hard...
TRUSTEES MEETING – 15TH JULY 2021 at 7:30 pm – AGENDA
If you would like to join this meeting via zoom, please contact Steve Bean sbean@sncanal.org.uk for the zoom link. Here is the Agenda: Agenda of the 142nd Trustees’ Meeting of the Shrewsbury and Newport...
HISTORIC BOATS PROJECT MOVES FORWARD
Great progress today with our Historic Boats project, with the first of them, nb Berkhampstead, going into dry dock at Norbury Wharf Ltd for bottom blacking. Would you like to help this week? Then...
CONCRETE POUR PLANNED FOR 26TH JUNE CANCELLED.
The concrete pour planned for Saturday 26th June unfortunately cannot now go ahead. This is because of the cement shortage and our supplier, PEZ Concreting, simply can’t get what is required to do the...
TRUSTEES MEETING 20 MAY 21 – AGENDA
Agenda of the 141st Trustees’ Meeting of the Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust – Thursday 20th May 2021 at 1930 Hrs Preliminaries, present and apologies. Minutes of Previous Meeting Approval of The Report and...
A GREAT WEEKEND’S WORK AT WAPPENSHALL
Despite the inclement May weather, a good turnout of our wonderful volunteers meant that a huge amount of progress was made this week. Not only was the difficult inclined section of the East Basin’s...