Posts Tagged ‘History’
Monday, May 21st, 2018
A group of volunteers who run the Claverton Pumping Station recently started a campaign to prevent CRT from selling the engineman’s cottage on the site due to the risk that the heritage building would be altered beyond recognition or even demolished. However despite an online petition with 599 signatures, the volunteers reluctantly announced that their campaign was at an end. This is the joint statement today (21st May 2018) from CRT, the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, and the Claverton Volunteers:
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Tags: Claverton, Claverton pumping station, heritage, History, Mark Evans, Stuart Mills, volunteers
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Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Julian House Travelling Communities Support Service is holding an art exhibition as part of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month this June 2017. The exhibition includes paintings, photography and crafts by members of the local Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Boater communities.
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Tags: arts and culture, Bargee Travellers, Bath, continuous cruisers, Gypsy, heritage, History, Julian House, liveaboards, Roma and Traveller history month, Travelling Community Support Service
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Monday, March 28th, 2016
As a holiday treat, we bring you Trade’s End by traditional folk band Whistling Treason from Bradford on Avon. You can listen to it here:
https://soundcloud.com/whistlingtreason/trades-end-demo-24bit
Here are the lyrics:
Crumb cocoa and dates,
Bottled beer stacked in crates,
Damn all the Waterways Board!
Coal by the ton for the
Old ironworks run,
Damn all the Waterways Board!
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Tags: arts and culture, Bradford-on-Avon, canal carrying, heritage, History, music, Whistling Treason
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Friday, August 8th, 2014
Innovative folk performers Dead Rat Orchestra are bringing their 2014 show “The Cut” about the songs, sounds and heritage of the canals to the K&A from 10th to 16th August. The Orchestra will visit Crofton, Pewsey, Devizes, Bradford on Avon, Avoncliff, Bath and finally Bristol Harbour where the group’s 273-mile tour of the waterways ends at the Arnolfini Gallery.
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Tags: arts and culture, heritage, History, Lifestyle
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
We received a message from Colin Hobbs who is looking for photos of Tipton, the coal and diesel boat featured in our article here
http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=132
Colin says “My Mother’s family worked and I guess lived on Tipton in the 1930s and 1940s, and I was wondering if there may be some old photos of the family about somewhere. The family name was Holt, my grandfather the skipper was Arthur Holt. They may have worked other boats but this is the only boat name I remember”.
If anyone can help, please contact Colin at halsewell@lineone.net
Tags: History, Lifestyle
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