4th July 2012 A reasonably early departure and a slow journey across the Pennines (by road) saw us at the boat by late morning. It was raining most of the way, but got heavier as soon as we had finished loading the provisions. The next exercise was where to leave the car safely and, once…
Read More4th July 2012 The Duke of Devonshire opened the Chesterfield Canal Festival at the new Staveley Town Basin on Saturday. He said “We are in the middle of a big good news story about the Chesterfield Canal”. This started a superb weekend of family fun. To see the Eckington Parish TV video, click here.
Read More15th to 25th June 2012 In this extended blog we set out for two festivals over two weekends, we go on one of the oldest working boat lifts in the world, Anderton Boat Lift, and Python returns to where she was built 83 Years ago – Yarwoods.
Read More8th June 2012 Getting up, I was prepared for a two day cruise to Middlewich which I thought was going to be great with the 1 ½ mile long Harecastle Tunnel. Then I heard this from the BBC News “The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for wind in South West England, the Midlands and the…
Read More2nd June 2012 Python cruised from Newark-on-Trent past Castle Marina, where we had a brief stop last year, through Stenson, Fradley and Stone and then onwards into Stoke mooring at the Etruria Industrial Museum, which is next to a BW yard, for our first festival – the Etruria Jubilee Canals Festival.
Read More31st May 2012 Our new tripboat, the Hugh Henshall, arrived at Staveley Town Basin today. We won the money to build it from the People’s Millions. For the full story, click here.
Read More22nd and 23rd May 2012 Python continued from Sandy Lane onto Retford mooring at the Hop Pole pub, next to one of our trip boats, Seth Ellis. After the blog started enthusiastically yesterday, the crew are very lethargic, mainly due to a hard days sunbathing whilst ploughing up the bottom of the Chesterfield Canal. (They say we…
Read More21st May 2012 This is IT! Hasn’t the rest of 2011 gone quickly, with 2012 briskly following. This year we haven’t half got a line up for our tour with Python, the Chesterfield Canal Trust’s floating publicity vehicle. (More to follow). But first check out Python’s new entrance covers meaning this year, hopefully, we won’t have a…
Read More16th May 2012 The towpath works on the Derbyshire section have now been finished and what a magnificent job the contractors have made of it.
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