Working to restore the canals from Norbury to Shrewsbury
Agenda for 147th Trustees’ Meeting of the Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust Thursday 19th May 2022, 1930 Hrs via Zoom Apologies Young Trustee Experience – Hannah Sterritt Minutes of Previous Meeting 17th March 2022...
Member Steve McClelland has put together this amazing drone video taken over the months that our volunteers have concreted the east basin and built the new retaining wall.
Our IWA Branch Chairman, Mike Haig, came to help at yesterday’s work party at Wappenshall Wharf. He brought with him the Tetlow Memorial Cup, which is awarded to the person that our area’s IWA...
It’s that time of the year! The Trust’s biggest event is nearly here. Please copy this poster and put it anywhere that people will see it please. If you have time to come and...
The third and final berm at Wappenshall’s East Basin is well underway. This week our volunteers not only significantly progressed this big job, but also managed to remove the earth ramp that has been...
If you missed Sunday 6th March broadcast, you can listen to it here: https://www.mixcloud.com/WaterwavesRadio/get-your-vision-clear-when-you-are-restoring-a-canal-we-talk-to-dave-jowett-and-simon-rowberry/ Just copy and paste the above link into your browser and hit the play button.
ASDA supermarkets have donated £200 to SNCT via their Green Token system. Please help by putting your green tokens towards us when next shopping in ASDA.
Even storm Eunice and a deluge of heavy rain didn’t stop further progress at Wappenshall Wharf over Friday and Saturday. A somewhat smaller team turned out to carefully move the spoil from the east...
After all the hard work by the Shrewsbury volunteers, storm Eunice provided some fresh water that nicely topped up the canal level.
The amazing team of volunteers at Wappenshall poured the final 3 basin slabs yesterday. All 101 are now completed! We really should have some sort of “topping out” party (or should that be “bottoming...