Derbyshire Live review - "I went on a cruise on the Derby Riverboat. Everyone should try it once" A favourable review of the Derby Riverboat can be found at the Derbyshire Live website link here. The final summary from the article is extracted below: "My brief encounter with the [...]
Riverside Developments Mike Wingfield, our Vice Chairman, has been leading our new Riverside Development Group who have been developing river based ideas. Progress has been made in conjunction with council flood defence work and we are hoping to work with the council’s contractor to develop riverside flood plain gardens to include boat activity. This [...]
MPs visit the Derby Riverboat The support of our local politicians is vital for the long term success of our project. Just before we closed down the boat service for 2024, we gave our local politicians a free trip. We attracted the MPs for Derby South and Derby North, the leader and deputy leader [...]
Chairman's Update - Christmas 2023 Work is underway to deal with the aftermath of the flood waters from Storm Babet. Our teams have been working with insurers to clear out the debris from the three flooded cottages and restoration works are now in progress, with hopes to be back in operation in a couple [...]
Storm Babet creates havoc The Trust has to report that the three residential properties were caught in a flash flood on Friday 20th October. The site was inundated with water rushing down the hills and running alongside Hopwell Road to flood the property. It may only have been six inches deep and lasted half a [...]
Our next meeting will be on the evening of September 26th from 7.30pm at the Cottages upstairs room. We will be entertained by Geoff Pursglove talking about progress on the Ashby Canal and Moira Furnace. It promises to be an interesting evening so I hope you can come. Presenting to the Freemen of Derby AGM David and Pauline [...]
Riverboat Update At last the weather’s improved and our Riverboat has celebrated our 2,000th passenger last month. Several of the passengers were a video crew from local video company AVIT, who were organised by the tourist department of the City Council to provide a promotional video as part of the drive for additional visitors. [...]
Walk around the Derby Canal in Little Eaton Tuesday 25th July The final members’ meeting before the summer break will be a walk around Little Eaton from 7pm on July 25th. It will take around an hour and start and finish at the New Inn. We’ll cover areas of interest to the Derby Canal, but a [...]
June News: Commemorative Bench for Eddy Case We are delighted to have installed a commemorative bench in recognition of the work that past Society Chairman Eddy Case did for the organisation before his untimely death last year. The bench was funded by his friends and installed by the Trust The picture shows [...]
DSCT - News in May We were pleased that we were able to train up a team of digger and dumper truck drivers ready for future works. Our thanks go to WRG who provided the trainers and to David Savidge for the organisation. We are now ready for the smaller scale projects that we [...]