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Roundup
Work continues on the Wendover, regular work-parties get going on the Derby, and there’s good progress - and a boat - on the Buckingham Grand Union Wendover Arm
Derby & Sandiacre Canal
The Wendover Arm Trust’s May and June Working Parties both started with the Friday spent pumping out water! During May work had to be restricted to bulk excavation but things improved in June; 27 metres of both banks were profiled ready for lining. For the July and August Working Parties, work could now progress on lining both banks and follow with bed lining. Whitehouses: The work now forging ahead on the channel means that work will reach Whitehouses probably before CRT even begin work on the pseudo weir at Whitehouses; we still await their estimate for the work. Tidy Friday: John Reynolds and his team continue with their good work of vegetation control This is valuable work and I am sure John would like to hear from anyone able to spare a Friday once a month. Roger Leishman
The Derby & Sandiacre Canal Socity currently hold between two and three working parties each week. On Wednesday we can be located at the bottom lock in Borrowash, restoring one of our locks along with the help from locals. Fridays can find us at the recently acquired derelict cottages that we are restoring in Draycott, all building skills along with general labour are appreciated to help us keep costs under control. Every other Sunday we are at various sites along our route depending on work needed to maintain pathways and walks. Full details can be found on our website: www.derbycanal.org.uk or contact me direct via coordinator@derbycanal.org.uk Eddy Case, Chairman Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society 07523 896645
BCS
We hope to have a Derby camp report next time
First boat on the restored length of the Buckingham beyond Bridge No 1 at Cosgrove: see over
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