The Bradley Canal Festival for 2024 will be held on Saturday 15th June 2024 starting at 10:00 am – all are welcome. The poster shows what is on offer for those who attend.
MAY GATHERING (17th – 19th) – Evening Entertainment
BCNS and Longwood Boat Club are holding the BCNS May Gathering (17th – 19th) at Longwood Boat Club. On Saturday 18th May commencing at 7:30 pm ‘The Busketeers’ will provide the Evenings Entertainment in the Boat Club building.
Social Events Talks Programme 2024/25
The Social Secretary and Meetings organiser, Andy Tidy, has arranged the following programme of talks for the 2024/25 season. Thursday 5th September 2024 David Jones – The Stafford Navigation Thursday 3rd October 2024 Paul Niblett – “William Morris Cars”. Thursday 7th November 2024 Graham Worton – Dudley Geologist Thursday 2nd January 2025 …
BCNS Annual General Meeting – Friday 17 May 2024
The 2024 AGM of the BCNS will be held as part of the BCNS and Longwood Boat Club Rally. It will be held on Friday 17th May at 7pm at Killock Scout Building, Longwood Lane, Aldridge WS4 2JT.
Report: BCNS and National Citizen Service weekends
BCNS hosted an induction and a work party for eleven 16 year olds from the National Citizen Service over the last 2 weekends. They were all from the Smethwick area but had little or no knowledge of the canals around them. The induction takes place at the Pump House and is an introduction for the teenagers about the canals and …
The Young and Old Mavericks at the Pump House
As a pre-empt to the Boonyeds Tour later in the year Billy Spake Mon and Bren Hawthorne will return to the Titford Pump House, Langley on Saturday April 22 to host the first evening of the year in collaboration with BCN Society. They will showcase young and more mature performers from the Maverick acoustic night including James Broadfoot and John …
BCN Society annual walk with Ray Shill – August 7th 2014
The walk will be from Deakin’s Avenue to Rocky Lane. Come and join author and historian Ray Shill to learn more about the BCN. The meeting point of this walk is Deakins Avenue and Lock 12 on the Tame Valley Canal at 19:00 It is our purpose to follow the Tame Valley Canal the canal to Salford Junction and …
2014 Programme – out now.
Next years programme is out. The monthly meetings start on the 9th of January with Tony Gregory telling us about the Wolverhampton canals over 60 years. (NOTE – this meeting is on the SECOND Thursday, rather than the the usual First Thursday of the month, to keep it clear of the New Year / Christmas goings on) The rest of the …
IWA Birmingham, the Black Country and Worcester branch meetings 2013 – 2014.
I have put these meetings (all at Hawne Basin) into the diary. You can find them in this link, along with everything else in the diary or if you only want to see the non BCN Society items in the diary, use this link. All are welcome – IWA members and non members.