The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust needs crew for the work boat Vale of Pewsey on Thursday 19th May starting from 9.30am and also on Friday 20th May. They will be clearing the wall below Bradford lock from Heaven Scent (Candle factory) along the boundary with Victory Field. This will take all day. On the Friday they plan to carry on cutting back the offside vegetation towards Avoncliff. Please email Derrick Hunt if you want to help. Volunteers don’t have to be members of the Trust. Contact derrickjohnhunt@btinternet.com
Events
Says it all really, anything, everything, if it’s happening we want it here.
Please let us know of anything you want publicised, meetings, gigs, parties…
Want to mess about in a work boat again?
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011K and A User Group meeting 4th April
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011The next Kennet and Avon User Group meeting will take place on Monday 4th April 2011, 7pm-9pm at the Kennet & Avon Trust Offices, The Wharf, Devizes. Boaters have attended the past few User Group Meetings and made it clear to BW what they think of their attempts at unlawful enforcement of the Mooring Guidance for Continuous Cruisers, the Local Mooring Strategy, and other issues. Lifts may be available, contact info@boatingcommunity.org.uk
If you have questions you want to ask, or if you want to tell BW what you think, come to the User Group meeting. To put something on the agenda, contact British Waterways, Bath Road, Devizes SN10 1QR or enquiries.kennetavon@britishwaterways.co.uk clearly marked “Agenda”.
Kennet and Avon Trust work boat needs crew!
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011Awkward questions at BW AGM
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010A boater attended the BW Annual General Meeting in Birmingham on 2 December and put the following question to the question and answer panel.
“When will BW stop acting beyond its powers in carrying out enforcement that makes liveaboard boaters homeless, given that Nigel Johnson’s evidence in Bristol County Court on 23 September shows that such enforcement is unlawful?”
Read more…
Christmas competition!
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010We are offering a prize for the best caption to this photo of BW Marketing Manager Simon Salem talking to a liveaboard boater at the National Association of Boat Owners AGM in November. Email your entry to info@boatingcommunity.org.uk or post it as a comment before 24 December 2010 and we’ll give the best caption the great prize of a free lifetime subscription to this web site. We already have one entry: “Who is this woman?”
Carol service cancelled
Friday, December 3rd, 2010We have received this messsage from Peter Atwill on Gospel Belle:
The Carol Service at Dundas Basin on the 4th December at
6.00 is cancelled this year. The weather has beaten us, we cannot take the
chance of any one slipping and hurting themselves.
We really appreciate it if you could let any one else know you see who might
have been intending to go. Many Thanks.
Canal Trust work party 5th December
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust is holding one of its regular work parties on Saturday 5th December. Meet at the Trust’s cafe at Bradford lock at 10am. All are welcome. At the last work day the volunteers concentrated on gardening and tidying the area around the lock.
Dundas Carol Service
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010The boaters’ carol service will take place at Dundas Aqueduct on Saturday 4th December at 6pm. As the picture from last year shows, this is a magical event enjoyed by boaters and local residents alike. There will be mince pies afterwards. The service is organised by Canal Ministries, who also offer free food all year round to people in need on the waterways.
Boaters' children at the carol service in 2009
Photo: Bob Naylor KAcanalTIMES.co.uk
Boaters inform public at sundial ceremony
Friday, November 5th, 2010
The Leader of BANES Council listens to the boaters Photo: Bob Naylor KAcanalTIMES.co.uk
The beautiful sundial constructed to commemorate the K&A 200th anniversary was unveiled on 30 October at lock 10 on the Widcombe flight in Bath. Boaters attended the ceremony in order to hand out leaflets informing the public that BW’s unlawful new policies will make liveaboard boaters homeless.
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Join the replica working boat and help us on 13th November towpath tidy
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Everyone is welcome to join us on a Towpath Tidy on Saturday 13th November. Meet at 11am outside the Canal Tavern in Bradford on Avon. We plan to tidy the towpath between Bradford on Avon and Dundas. There will be a work boat to carry the rubbish. This boat is Ishtar, the first Bradford Star Class traditional working boat.
The first Bradford-on-Avon Star Class narrow boat
Bring protective gloves, a wheelbarrow, a bike trailer or a boathook if you have them. We will provide bin bags, litter picking spikes and some extra gloves. There will be handwashing facilities provided at Dundas. All towpath users are welcome to join in.