Many hands make dirty work?

  The Society was delighted to be invited to join in the annual BCN Clean-up – with some Grand Union thrown in. This year’s event took place in the Digbeth area and included the Garrison, Ashtead and Camp Hill lock flights. As usual the clean up was also attended by DCT, IWA, WRG, CCT AND CRT. Boats attending were Phoenix, …

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 …