Working Party Update 31st January 2016
One week wet, another snow, today cold and wet, but people keep turning up to help out on the canal restoration, no need for the sun lotion yet. Once again we attended at [...]
Members Meeting Tuesday 26th January
Dear Members, Welcome back after the Christmas festivities. I hope you had a good and relaxing Christmas. We all wish a speedy recovery to Trust Chairman Steve Jeffery, who spent Christmas in hospital [...]
January’s Working Parties
The Canal Society once again commenced our working parties for the year in early January. Our aim this winter is to lay as much of the remaining hedge at Draycott prior to the [...]
Final Working Party of 2015
Another year draws to an end, the last working party for 2015 took place at Draycott this Sunday. Three teams enabled us to start the major job of hedge laying the last 450 [...]
Starting to “Dig back to Derby”
This week the society started the work to dig out the canal lock situated at the end of the canal route that will be joining with the Erewash Canal. The initial work involved [...]
Sandiacre Lock Update
Work has started on the proposed dig out of the lock at Sandiacre. Last week saw a small team in attendance to identify the location of the top stones. More work is to [...]