12th April 2015 It isn’t the end of the journey that matters; it’s the journey itself. I don’t know if Hemingway ever set about restoring an old boat but it sounds as though he did! When Python leaves the Sheet Stores, that may be felt to be ‘the end’ but before then there will have…
Read More29th April 2015 On 29th April, the Mayor of Chesterfield unveiled a plaque at Tapton Lock on the Chesterfield Canal. The plaque commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the re-opening of the lock. It also thanks the volunteers, some of whom have worked on the canal for nearly 30 years.
Read More27th March 2015 Derbyshire County Council Press Release Work to restore Chesterfield Canal continues in a bid to boost tourism and attract businesses and investment into North East Derbyshire.
Read More22nd March 2015 You may remember that a group of WRGies – volunteers from the Waterway Recovery Group – came to do some scrub bashing at Spinkhill last November. Click here for the story. A group of about 30 returned this weekend.
Read More21st March 2015 Today the crew of our Retford based tripboat, Seth Ellis, did a clean up of the canal.
Read More23rd January 2012 You don’t have to go to Worsley to see an underground canal. We have one on the Chesterfield Canal at Hollingwood. It is called the Hollingwood Common Canal.
Read More10th March 2015 Well, it turned out that Jan and Glyn had chosen the right day to drive down to Braunston with bright sunshine from early in the morning, lasting all day. We had to take the engine down to Johnno at Union Canal Carriers, Braunston Bottom Lock via Sheet Stores in Long Eaton. The…
Read More5th March 2015 For eighteen long months Python has been sitting on the dock waiting. Waiting for us to manage to persuade the great and the good that she is worthy of saving and they should help by throwing some money in her direction. I suspect there were a few pessimists who thought pigs would…
Read More18th February 2015 The word had gone out that Python was to be emptied so that various persons could scrabble about in the bottom to discover just what had to be done in the deep, dark depths to restore Python to reliable flotation. So, having both an incompletely full shed and a van handy, I…
Read More18th February 2015 Imagine me sitting quietly in a meeting listening to the gentle burbling of those around me when the antennae picked up warning signals such as ‘Glyn’, ‘van’, ‘shed’ and ‘Sheet Stores’! The good news was that money was now available for doing lots of work on Python, but the not-so-appealing news was…
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