A free-to-attend boaters gathering is planned by the Withymoor Island Moorings site. To be held between Friday the 6th of September and Sunday the 8th of September 2024. Real ales, food and Entertainment will be available on Friday and Saturday. The event takes place one week before the Black Country Boating Festival. Boaters who will be supporting that Festival can …
BCN 24 Hour Marathon Challenge – 2024
The BCN 24 Hour Marathon Challenge for 2024 takes place on the weekend of the 25th and 26th May 2024. This year’s finish will be at Hawne Basin, Halesowen. The organiser is Jonathan Pegg and the email for this event is bcnschallenge@gmail.com Application form and Further information and Rules are set out below. BCNS 24 Hour Challenge Entry Form 2024 …
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.
BCNS and Longwood Boat Club Rally
The BCNS and Longwood Boat Club Rally is to be held at the Top Lock of the Rushall Flight over the weekend of Friday 17th May—Sunday 19th May 2024 The BCNS Annual General Meeting will take on Friday 17th May at 7:30pm and after the AGM there will be a quiz organised for all to take part in. There will …
BCNS ICICLE CRUISE 1st – 3rd March 2024
Following the success of our early season cruise to the Fens Pools in 2023 the Society have planned another short cruise for 2024. BCN Society Icicle Cruise 1st – 3rd March 2024. Meet at Merry Hill on the evening of Friday 1st March. Cruise to Parkhead Locks and up to Dudley Tunnel Portal on Saturday 2nd March. Hopefully, there will …
Phoenix Appeal – the BCNS workboat needs your help!
Phoenix is the Society workboat and is essential for us to undertake our work party activities, like cleaning up the Birmingham canals. Unfortunately, major work are required, so we are asking for your help! We have set up a Just Giving account, to make it quick and easy to donate, and keep Phoenix afloat! Please download one of the forms …
2020 BCN Annual Cleanup report
Our weekend of hard labour, on March 14/15 2020, was very successful, we had a good time grappling and sorting junk for scrap metal. The Saturday got off to a good start in reasonable weather. With support from the Canal & River Trust, Coombeswood Canal Trust and Inland Waterways Associations Waterways Recovery Group, the Walsall Canal from Ryders Green to …
Newly discovered links!
Jeffrey Carter sent two links that look very interesting indeed. The first is about pubs in Tipton 200 years ago. Not directly BCN-related, although it seems more than likely that the boatmen of the past might have enjoyed the odd pint here and there. Pubs must have been everywhere at the time! The second one is very much BCN-related – …
BCNS and the Lapal Canal Trust – update
The Birmingham Canal Navigation Society has now become corporate member of the Lapal Canal Trust. This allows LCT to access far greater skills required in the future, and it definitely creates a more professional feel to future funding applications. LTC received a donation of £20,000 from the Unite Group, their “Battery Park” block of students flat is just next to …
Work party 29 February 2020
There was a good turnout for our work party on the 29th February to help CRT volunteers clear overhanging vegetation from the footpaths around the recently dredged Titford Pools. The weather was kind to us, apart from a couple of short, sharp hail showers. We filled Phoenix with more timber, collected some fly tipped rubbish on our way back to the …