WAPPENSHALL OWL AND BAT BOXES.
Please follow this link (link) to see time lapse photography of our volunteers constructing an owl box and bat box in the roof space of the Transshipment Warehouse at Wappenshall Junction, the home of...
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WE “RAMP UP” ACTION AT WAPPENSHALL!
To enable us to get into the East basin to construct the retaining wall along the towpath, we needed to build a ramp. It will be used to get both materials and our volunteers...
MORE PROGRESS AT WAPPENSHALL
At the last work party before Christmas 13 volunteers turned out to make some significant progress with the installation of further joists and rafters in the Transhipment Warehouse. Another team busied themselves by taking...
JULIE SHARMAN VISITS WAPPENSHALL
Canal & River Trust’s Chief Operating Officer, Julie Sharman, took time out from her busy schedule to pay our volunteers a visit at Wappenshall’s work party yesterday. Julie took a great interest in all...
WAPPENSHALL’S EAST BASIN – FROM THE AIR!
Many thanks to member Jon Birchall for taking his drone down to Wappenshall and getting the spectacular photograph below, which shows how SAMCO have progressed with digging out the spoil from the East Basin....
DREDGING AT NEWPORT
Contractors have started dredging the section of the Newport Canal towards the A41. In the photo below Summerhouse Bridge can be seen in the background. The silt is excavated and placed into a barge, which is...
SNCT to Support Arts Project for Young People in Shrewsbury
S&N Canals Trust is pleased to be partnering with “The Hive” Arts Centre in Belmont, Shrewsbury, on their “Hidden Waterways” project which has just been awarded a £75,000 Lottery’s Heritage Fund grant. As reported...
WAPPENSHALL’S EAST BASIN GETS DUG OUT!
Monday 28th October 2019 will go down as one of the most significant dates for our Thomas Telford @ Wappenshall Wharf project. Phase 1 of Plan B will see the smaller warehouse restored and...
WIDOW’S BRIDGE STOP PLANKS
Thanks to CRT’s Roger Birch at their Ellesmere Yard, Alistair Price was able to collect some Stop Planks, or “Stanks” as they are sometimes know, to slot into Widow’s Bridge bridge-hole to stem the...
NEW FLOOR AT WAPPENSHALL
After a monumental effort from the Wappenshall Team over Friday 18th and Saturday 19th October we managed to prepare the ground floor of the small warehouse, plus the floor of its new toilet block...