BCNS are delighted to announce that we have a new webmaster who has taken control of both the BCNS websites and now merged them into one – bcnsociety.com. For a limited time only any search of bcnsociety.co.uk will auto divert to the .com site and eventually the link will die and the .co.uk site will cease to exist. Work on the site is continuing …
National Citizen Service – The Challenge
The young people from “The Challenge” worked with us again this summer. As usual, it was good fun – and hopefully and introduction to the canals for the young people. Thank you guys for joining us for a work party. (By the way – we don’t claim to be the Birmingham Canal Navigations – the certificate simply didn’t have the …
BCN Society Spring Cruise 2018
on Saturday 7th April 2018 at 10am from TIPTON to BUMBLE HOLE via locks & Netherton tunnel We welcome boaters to join our cruise & to allow some passengers to join them. This year we are taking our Spring Cruise from Tipton to Windmill End and back. We will take either the Factory Locks or Brades to take us from …
Work party re-secures Titford Pump House moorings
There had been some thoroughly unpleasant incidents with vandals coming under Tat Bank bridge, crossing the canal on the bridging pontoon and vandalising some of the boats moored there. It became apparent that the end of the fence blocking the access under the bridge had been removed. A work party moved the pontoon that provided the access to the moorings, …
Work party success
On a stunningly successful work party in November, 12 volunteers filled Crowe and Phoenix from only three bridge holes. The job was far from finished – so they had another go. (Due to a communications glitch – this was originally posted as a workparty on Jan 19th – there is not one then) e.
Progress restoring the Dudley No 2
In 2016 Lapal Canal Trust made some big strides towards restoring the Dudley No 2 canal. There was substantial excavation of Harborne Wharf by Careys, a WRG work camp to restore the canal wall. (There is another WRG camp starting on 29 July – see the Diary or the WRG website.) The ground was laser scanned, so that they can take sections to help …
BCN Safe Moorings and Facilities Guide
A project for this year is to update our moorings and facilities guide – in two ways. One of them is to revisit all of the moorings and reassess them, and the second is to add details and photographs of all of them on the website. The pdf file, which is designed to be printed out (ideally on both sides …