camp report S & N Canals

Our job on the Shrewsbury & Newport Canals was to rebuild a donkey shelter that also forms a tunnel portal buttress. Which is probably a first...

Shrewsbury and Newport Canals 21 - 28 August 2022

This was a camp led by Mikk (Bradley) and Mick (Lilliman) – “Buy one Mikk and get one Mick free!” Unusually it was a Sunday-to-Sunday camp. Anne Lilliman cooked.

The main task of the camp was to start rebuilding the buttress wall of the donkey shed / lengthsman’s hut [nobody’s quite sure which it was] adjacent to the Northwest Portal of Berwick Tunnel.

On Saturday the advance party of Mick and Anne arrived to get the hall cleaned, shopping done and one van delivered. They were joined later by Alan and Nigel who went to site on Sunday morning to fell some trees with one of the local chainsaw artistes, Chaz. In the meantime, some more locals (very