progress S & N Canals

Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust continue restoration and conversion work at Wappenshall warehouses and welcome WRG Forestry to Berwick

WRG Forestry did a fantastically professional job of dismantling a large dangerous Goat Willow at our Berwick Tunnel North Portal site (see photo). This will enable us to more easily access the towpath with excavators and dumpers now.

Work continues at the Wappenshall site (where the historic warehouses by the junction of the Shrewsbury and Newport canals are being restored as a canal centre) too. We have installed three large sewage treatment plant tanks and connected the foul drainage to them from the toilet block. The latter is coming on well now: both inner and outer walls, complete with insulation, are halfway up and the new windows have been installed. We have almost completed replacement of all spalled brickwork on the outside of the building and quotes are being obtained for doors and windows. Once the toilet block roof is on and all doors and windows are in, the building will be weatherproof and ready for inside work to start.

Bernie Jones

See also back cover photograph