Darren Simons and Violet McLaren, owners of Swindon’s best known music venue the Victoria, are taking over as the new tenants at the Barge Inn, Honey Street on 21st April.
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Archive for March, 2016
Barge Inn, Honey Street to re-open as live music venue
Thursday, March 31st, 2016Act now to stop mooring restrictions at Mead Lane, Saltford
Monday, March 28th, 2016Second meeting for boaters on ‘restricted’ licences, 29th March, Avoncliff
Friday, March 25th, 2016On Tuesday 29th March at 7pm to 9pm at the Cross Guns, Avoncliff BA15 2HB, there will be a second meeting for any boaters who have been put onto ‘restricted’ 3 or 6 month licences by CRT, or whose licence renewal without a home mooring has been refused, or who are otherwise in the enforcement process.
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Skippers Wanted
Thursday, March 17th, 2016A wonderful opportunity to do some boating in a different part of the country and get involved in a very worthwhile project.
We need to find 3 experienced steerers, no certificates needed, for a project that involves taking a group of young people from Birmingham to Manchester for a dance performance on hire boats. This is the first two weeks of July.
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National Boats Are Homes demonstration 16th April
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016On Saturday 16th April there will be a demonstration to demand that CRT:
*stops evicting or threatening to evict boat dwellers without permanent moorings based on their travel pattern, because of an arbitrary and unlawful minimum distance ‘rule’ that has been imposed since last May
*stops imposing 24 hour mooring time limits (the law entitles us to stay 14 days in any one place)
*stops any plans for the sale of our waterways,
and instead takes positive action to:
*maintain the banks and towpaths of the waterways
*install more mooring rings where these are needed and
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