narrowboatworld

THE construction of the ramp on the Regents Canal, featured in narrowboatworld has been halted as British Waterway did not obtain planning permission.

GANGS of brick-throwing yobs have taken over a derelict house at Stourbridge on the Stourbridge Canal throwing bricks at the moored and visiting boats.

IT IS obvious to regular boaters cruising the waterways that BW set up a survey then rigged it to get the results it wanted.

BRITISH Waterways is imposing more restrictions on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal by restricting the hours of usage of Plank Lane Bridge on the Leigh Branch.

LACK of water has closed another section of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal—between Appley Bridge and Poolstock.

THE update from BW tells us that the  Lock 46 'stoppage has now been lifted and is open to through navigation' yesterday (Wednesday), but this is in doubt.

THE concept of mushroom management is well known, writes Allan Richards. Keep them in the dark and feed them. …… However, BW goes a step further with mushroom board meetings.

WHAT about us boaters—how will we fare in a BW mutual trust? And for that matter is a mutual trust for the waterways even a starter. The whole bottom line is money. How do you finance BW as a mutual trust. Who pays what? And this is where the problems start, writes David Cragg.

THOUGH the contractors managed to get concrete to the damaged Lock 46 on  Leeds & Liverpool Canal, it will now have to be allowed to set.

NO WORK whatsoever was done yesterday (Sunday) to repair the lock  that has closed the Leeds & Liverpool Canal on the busiest weekend of the season, and nothing is being done today.

AFTER 13 years of cruising to a fairly strict schedule to far flung destinations, we all thought an easy dawdle around the Leicester Ring would suit us very nicely indeed, but oh! after only a few years the deterioration is shocking.

THE  day before one of the busiest  Bank Holiday weekends of the year, British Waterways have announced the closure of Barrowford Lock 46, on the Leeds and Liverpool summit close to Foulridge Tunnel.