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 [...]
The Riverboat is now in full operation. Normal timings are 12.30, 1.45 and 3pm on Saturdays and Sundays with Wednesdays being available from May. We will also operate on Bank Holidays. This is subject to river conditions. After heavy rain we may be prohibited from sailing until the river flow and levels subside. We will [...]
Riverboat due to start operations from 1st April In readiness for the new season we have installed a new GPS regulated commentary system. Simon has programmed the system to work out where the riverboat is and control the commentary accordingly. We completed a very pleasant trip upriver to calibrate it and installed a new [...]
**shamelessly copied from a recent press release!** Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Ltd are pleased to announce the opening of the new season to the public of its Derby Riverboat trip service on the river Derwent. Following a sell-out service last year the public have been keen to get back on the river and repeated [...]