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...
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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...
Transformation at Berwick Wharf
If you’ve ever driven through Berwick Wharf (just north of Attingham Park) you just might have been tempted to wonder where exactly the wharf is. Well, we were assured that there once was a...
DID THE GROUND MOVE FOR YOU?
Our volunteers had a really good couple of days last week at Wappenshall Wharf, moving around 15 Tonnes of hardcore into the ground floor of the smaller warehouse, in readiness for the ready-mix concrete...
SNCT Oral History Project
A team of SNCT members have spent several years recording interviews with a range of folk who either remember the S&N from their childhood or, in a few cases, from working on the canals...
Exhibition at Abbey Station
We were very pleased to be offered the opportunity to put on an exhibition of our plans and progress at The Shrewsbury Railway Heritage Trust’s recently restored Abbey Station, opposite Shrewsbury Abbey. The exhibition...
IWA’S “DANNY” WEEKEND
21st and 22nd September 2019 saw our IWA Region organise a special weekend aboard the Daniel Adamson Steam Ship, or “Danny” as she is known, anchored in Liverpool’s Albert Dock, for a Restoration Trust’s...