Last Sunday (26th January) an intrepid group of Society members took the display stall to Sandiacre to coincide with the Canal and River Trust open day where the public were invited to climb down in to the drained Sandiacre Lock on the Erewash Canal. We set up our display in atrocious conditions on the line [...]
The first working party of the new year brought us a sharp frosty start, 12 volunteers turned out to brave the weather, but as the morning progressed the sun came out and shone on us. This weeks aims where to continue the good work on hedge laying from both sides, the two teams are getting [...]
Another fine, dry, but chilly Sunday morning found seven hardy souls working on the Draycott stretch, hedge laying and general tidying up. We had two teams laying, one team working from the east end and the other from the west end, working in pairs with the other three clearing up the off cuts from previous [...]
[button color="green" size="big" link="http://youtu.be/qNItNoRfojI" target="blank" ]Watch the animation[/button] The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust’s iconic concept proposal for a Boat Lift is called the Derby Arm In conjunction with the restoration of much of the Derby Canal from Swarkestone to Sandiacre the Trust proposes to run a passenger boat service from the Canal Route at [...]
Derby City Council have recently published its Local Development Framework strategy, whilst there is welcome support for “protecting” the canal route for restoration, it does however fall short of actively promoting the restoration. As the plan is available for public consultation it would be useful to get as many comments as possible from members to [...]
The Society Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 22nd October at 8 pm at The Wilmot Arms, 49, Derby Road, Borrowash on the old A52 on the Derby side of Borrowash centre. Please park near to the pub in car parks of the garage next door or the doctor’s surgery a 50 yards on [...]
The popular speaker Derek Palmer returns to give further insights of the various buildings that were demolished across Derby to allow more modern structures to be built. It was called "progress". Derek is the former 'Clerk of Works' for Derby City Council, fortunately he had the foresight to photograph many of the buildings he was [...]
Delighted to receive the following feedback re our work parties: Just thought I would leave a note on my experience on the three working parties that I have "helped" on.... I can only say that there is no better way of getting out of the shopping/going to the family/doing that odd job around the house [...]
On Saturday 6th July our exhibition stand will be attending the Spirit of Chellaston event at Chellaston School. The event is open from 11:00 to 16:00. It is some years since we have attended an event in Chellaston so we hope to see as many local members as possible along with lots of non-members so [...]
The Trust attended the county show at Elvaston on a wet and windy Sunday 23rd June. In spite of the whether the day again proved successful for us with a number of new members joining on the day with some expressing interest in joining us on the work parties. Merchandise sales were steady but that [...]
