Just spent a very pleasant morning with a bunch of enthusiastic volunteers on the city end of the Kennet and Avon Canal. It’s an 87 mile long, late 18th century marvel – surveyed by engineer […]
Tag: Canal and River Trust
Spot the difference?
Not sure if those clever people inside Bath’s Guildhall are playing a game of ‘spot the difference’ with their citizens, but l could have sworn there used to be more cycle hoops on this civicCount […]
Canal – a theme park? Turmoil at the tiller! Canal and River Trust statement released.
Is it time to introduce some sort of additional safeguards regarding the hiring of canal narrowboats to stag and hen parties? I ask the question following an incident on the Kennet and Avon Canal at […]
Looks like reindeer!
I am well aware that we have a national problem with trying to assist – and settle – our homeless – not all of which – in this area – live on the streets of […]
Dog-gone!
What is it about all these ‘offerings’ being made to the “Dog Poo Fairy?” I cycle through Sydney Gardens on a regular basis. Last week there was a bagged bundle just inside the Sydney Road […]
Saving our river from rubbish.
Bath won’t be missing out – when it comes to community action – during next month’s ‘Great British Spring Clean.’ There’s an invitation for more to join in on a mammoth litter picking exercise – from […]
Canal clean up – first phase completed!
If – like me – you are a regular user of Sydney Gardens you may have notice volunteers – working for the Canal and River Trust – have been busy removing tons of mud from […]
Working on water.
If you are a regular user of the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath through Bath you may have noticed a group of people busy cutting back the overgrowth, painting railings and shifting tons of accumulated soil […]
A (paint) brush with the past.
Elsewhere on this website you will see a story reflecting the sad state of affairs in historic Sydney Gardens. The ‘Friends’ are helping to put together a Heritage Lottery Fund application to – hopefully – […]
Threatened on the towpath
You have got to sort things out on the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath – Canal and River Trust . l was verbally threatened this morning by a jogger – with a dog running in […]
