In addition to how many locks and miles can you cover in 24 hours, there are a series of questions to answer, with additional points gained for correct answers. The questions did not all carry the same points. For those (like me!) who did not get all of the questions that I tried, here are the questions and answers. Birmingham …
BCN Marathon Challenge results
Hot off the press, here are the Marathon Challenge results. Congratulations to Richard and his team on Tawny Owl for an outstanding result! 1 Richard Powell on Tawny Owl with 635.2 points 2 Tom Murkin on Diesel And Dust with 609.8 points 3 Sarah Edgson on Canis Major with 554.6 points 4 John Mosley on Firefly with 513 points 5 …
Preparations for Pelsall Rally
Dredging team heading up the Curley Wyrley to Pelsall, to do some spot dredging around the site of the canal festival. This will certainly make moorings easier for deep drafted boats. Many thanks to Dean Davies (local C&RT Manager) for arranging this.
Changes to the BCN Society website
We have revised our website, to retain the strengths of the diary based site www.bcnsociety.co.uk, but to allow more flexibility for news pages – hence you will actually flick between two sites. All of the posts prior to this one are items taken from the “news” section of the older part of the site. Posts from after this will be current …
Historic guillotine lock on the Stratford canal re-opened.
The recently restored historic Guillotine Lock on the North Stratford canal (Lock 1) at Kings Norton junction was re-opened by actor and boater Timothy West and the historic BW boat Scorpio on Tuesday 30th April (For the pedants amongst you – I know lock 1 on the Stratford isn’t on the BCN – but it is on one of the main routes in)
The Allen Register joins the BCNSociety at the Pelsall Rally
The BCN Society continued its long standing association with the Allen Register at the Pelsall Canal Festival taking place from June 14-16. The weekend saw the latest gathering of owners and friends of boats built by Les Allen and Sons (Bob and John) at Oldbury. For further details on the Allen Register contact Annie Jenner via this link.
Pelsall Radioactive?
The amateur radio station callsign GB2BCN will be amongst the many attractions at the Pelsall Rally on 15 and 16 June. Follow the link above for more information on the radio, click on the call sign link. To join in the rally, grab an entry form. Follow the BCNS on Facebook!
Soho Loop Workparty – 16 Feb 2013
The work party on the Soho Loop was a major success – much rubbish and scrap metal retrieved from the canal bed. Some of it needed serious effort to get it off the canal bed – Mike Powell’s “Anson” provided a good test of the breaking strain of synthetic line hauling a shopping trolley buried deep in the mud. (The …
Latest plans for the Selly Oak Sainsbury’s endanger restoration of the Lapal link
Plans have been submitted and approved for the redevelopment of the Battery Site, at Selly Oak, where the Dudley No 2 canal joined the Worcester and Birmingham. If the Lapal Link is ever to come to fruition, this site is critical. For many complicated reasons, these plans are being modified. More details are on the Lapal Canal Trust website, the Bournville Village website …
The start of the BCN Society
The BCNS came about not from a ‘Big Bang’ theory but more like a creeping inevitability. It all began with the Government publishing a White Paper on the canals in 1967. Barbara Castle was Minister of Transport and we all expected Labour to champion the waterways cause. Most people were happy with the White Paper. BCNites were not. At a …