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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...

Despite some very cold mornings, freezing conditions and much mud, our enthusiastic team of volunteers at Wappenshall have continued to progress the project. If all goes to plan, we should finish all the concreting...

Agenda for 145th Trustees’ Meeting of the Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust Thursday 20th January 2022, 1930 Hrs via Zoom Apologies Minutes of Previous Meeting 18th November 2021 Skills Audit & Gap Analysis –...

The last Friday and Saturday working parties were held at Wappenshall last weekend. We managed to prepare and pour another 4 concrete slabs in the East Basin despite wet, muddy and cold working conditions....

Despite storm Arwen doing its best to thwart the team at Wappenshall, great progress was made once again. Overnight the large willow tree in our neighbour’s garden had two large limbs blown off it...

IWA Shrewsbury District  & North Wales – Webinar 8th December 2021  Dear Members,Complementing IWA’s current campaign to Save Waterways Heritage, Shrewsbury District & North Wales Branch is delighted to host an online talk via...

It is great to see the progress that Phil Jones and the team are making with the restoration of our historic boats. Thanks to David Ray and his guys, nb BAINTON has been in...

For those of you that can’t help with the physical work to restore the canals, how about coming to a fun day to help raise the funds to restore our two heritage boats BAINTON...

Our regular work party volunteers were met with a shallow “swimming pool” on Friday 29th October when we first arrived. Heavy overnight rain had fallen that had raised the level in the East Basin...