The final meeting before the summer break will take place at The Wilmot Arms, Derby Road, Borrowash, DE72 3HA from 8pm. I’m pleased to welcome our speaker Stuart Smith from Midland Railway at Butterley. Stuart is an active volunteer for the Railway Trust and will be speaking to us about Notable Railway Accidents. I have [...]
This afternoon at Draycott we welcomed back the team from the structural engineers that are looking at advising us to restore the Draycott stretch to water – this time they brought some additional equipment that involved working from the air as opposed to on the bank side. As you can see from the photograph showing [...]
The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society has enjoyed a very busy month in June, we have attended three shows, Hayworth Park in Sandiacre, The Spirit of Chellaston Show and the Spondon Day. All of the shows have attracted new members and sales of our merchandise are going well, all this is helping to fund the [...]
