A rally for Tugs, dayboats and IceBoats is planned to be held on the Black Country Living Museum Site. The event is scheduled for the weekend of 3rd – 5th May 2025.
BCLM Boaters Gathering – 20-21st September 2025
The Historic Narrowboat Club (HNBC) have announced plans for a Boaters Gathering to be held on the Black Country Living Museum Site. The event is scheduled for the weekend of 20th – 21st September 2025. The Black Country Living Museum would like to invite applications for Boats to take part in an event to re-create traditional canal scenes and activities …
Brownhills Canal Festival – 16-17th August 2025
The Brownhills Canal Festival is held on the third weekend of August each year, on the Wyrley and Essington Canal at Silver Street. The festival has floating traders, historic narrowboats, land traders and lots more. It is organised by the Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust Further details can be found at the LHCRT website –LHCRT
Black Country Boating Festival – 12-14 September 2025
The Black Country Boating Festival is an annual boating and community festival held on the Dudley No2 Canal at Bumblehole Local Nature Reserve. The festival is open on Friday evening 6 pm to 10 pm and on Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm. Further details on the event can be found on the website – BCBF
Bradley Canal Festival – Saturday 15th June 2024
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 …