Endeavour
1 to attempt (eg the fulfilment of an obligation) by exertion of effort; 2 archaic to strive to achieve or reach ~ vi to make an effort to do something n a serious determined effort
Northampton Branch Newsletter - August 2014
David Blagrove, MBE Local waterway enthusiast, life-long campaigner and IWA Northampton Branch member David Blagrove was appointed an MBE in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June. The brief citation reads: “For services to Restoration of the UK Waterways” Lynda Payton writes: For over 60 years David’s life has been dedicated to the restoration and promotion of the waterways, starting in the 50s when, still at school, as a member of the Kennet & Avon Canal Association, he helped set up the Reading Branch and began campaigning Photo: Katherine Dodington for its restoration and eventual re-opening which took place in 1990. In 1961 he became joint owner of the Enterprise, an old working boat converted to run as a passenger boat operating on the remaining navigable section of the River Kennet at Reading and commercial carrying at the same time. The following year he assisted with the setting up of the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust, formed out of the previous Association, and was an early Council Member of that Trust. Continued on page 8
David Blagrove (left) is congratulated by Richard Parry (CEO CRT) at the Stoke Bruerne Family Festival
The IWA was founded in 1946 to campaign for the retention, restoration and development of Britain’s navigable waterways and for their fullest commercial and recreational use. The IWA is a registered Charity (no. 212342) , whose work is supported by members’ subscriptions.