comingsoon...Camps 2022 In Navvies 311 we plan to include a booklet with the 2022 Canal Camps programme. But here’s an exclusive preview of where we’re likely to go... Canal Camps 2022: the (likely) sites As you may have read in Jonathan’s Acting Chairman’s Column, as this issue goes to press we’re still working on our programme of week-long Canal Camps for 2022. We’re running approximately two months later than usual with the planning: in the light of the last two years’ experience it makes sense to try to give ourselves a little bit more certainty of what will happen by the time we go public with a full schedule of dates and sites. So the plan is now that the Canal Camps Brochure which usually gets posted out with this issue of Navvies will instead come out with the next issue in late February. But we know that lots of you will be eager to hear about which sites we’re planning to run Canal Camps on in the coming summer - especially given that you’ve been starved of any Camps action for much of the last two years. So - with the usual disclaimers that nothing is decided, and that nobody knows what horrors the next twist in the Covid-19 story might inflict on us all - here is our preview of the eight sites which right now are looking odds-on to feature in the programme for 2022, plus several more which we hope might make it.
Monmouthshire & Brecon Canals The site: Ty-Coch Locks, near Cwmbran The work: the overflow bywash weir at one of the flight of Ty-Coch Locks (where a great deal of restoration work has already been done) has developed a void. We need to dismantle the weir apron, fill the hole, and then carefully rebuild it - all in stone and traditional lime mortar. There’s also a second job, installing stop planks at two of the restored locks and repainting the lock gates. And there’s another possible project to build a slipway at Five Locks nearby.
The Bywash with holes in...
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...and the locks under restoration
