Author: Bernie Jones

The lockdown announced by the Prime Minister on 4th January 2021 has stopped any hope of running the festival this year. Please do keep in touch with us in the interim, find us on...

The 2nd January 2021 dawned cold and frosty. The concrete base of the East Basin at Wappenshall was frozen over. But did it put off our intrepid wall team? Nah, of course it didn’t!...

At the last work party of 2020 the Wappenshall Team of volunteers managed to get another concrete pour completed on the main part of the retaining wall and the second top section poured too....

Just before the November lockdown our team of volunteers, led by Trustees David Ray and Phil Jones, “swapped” our historic boats around to enable work to begin on Bainton, the motor. This involved towing...

After a reasonably pleasant, dry day on Friday 20th November, the Saturday that followed could not have been more different. Showery, dismal and cold, but it did not deter the team from getting the...

In miserable weather, over Friday and Saturday 20th/21st November, “Team Wappenshall” did a fantastic job to get the first 16 feet section of the East Basin’s new retaining wall built. This involved making the...

In strong winds gusting to 50 mph and showery rain, the Wappenshall team completed the second concrete pour for the base of the East Basin last Saturday. Many thanks to Steve McClelland for this...

If you have not yet tuned into Waterwaves Radio do please have a listen on Thursday 12th November by following this link  https://chirb.it/BInp7v It is based at Wappenshall and is growing fast.

The regular Friday and Saturday work parties at Wappenshall saw the team hard at work on 17th October removing the remainder of the timber formwork from the retaining wall base, de-nailing it and removing...

Some fantastic drone footage taken by member Steve McClelland can be viewed by clicking on the link below.