Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; I hope everyone is in festive mood and ready for some good family time. Let’s hope Omicron doesn’t get in the way and that you are all safely immunity boosted. We still have the same old projects [...]
Derby Canal - Drone Footage Playlist Andy Savage (www.derbyphotos.co.uk) has put in a huge amount of effort and produced a series of drone footage videos along the length of the Derby Canal. Its available to look at below (top right corner to change between videos). It's a very interesting, and quite relaxing, set of videos, [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; I hope you are all enjoying “freedom” and haven’t suffered from the latest challenge of being “pinged”. Sarah Cresswell, one of our key and very active volunteers, was organising the members meeting at Draycott when she was [...]
The WRGies* are back at Borrowash! Following restrictions in 2020 due to Covid-19 there was a noticeable absence of the WRGies support, thankfully from 1st August to 7th August they are back with a vengeance, continuing their previous activities at Borrowash Bottom Lock in Support of the DSCT. Colin, the IWA/WRG team leader, has [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Well here we are in July with rumours abounding that freedom is only a couple of weeks away. Strangely we have experienced our first volunteer Covid cases in the last couple of weeks having managed to [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Did I say last month that I hope the weather improves? It certainly seems to be better now! Working Parties Great progress again on all fronts. The last month has seen a lot of progress [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Welcome to the monthly update and thanks to David for holding the fort during the transition from Society to the Trust. I’m pleased to say that it has all happened now and took place really smoothly. [...]
ARTEMIS - "Aquatic Remote Technology Environmental Mitigation (and) Intercept System" #Cleaner Rivers: Now and Forever Article submitted by Archit Sharma, Technical Owner for ARTEMIS (Manufacturing Engineer at Rolls-Royce). Back in 2019, the Derby & Sandiacre Canal Trust (DSCT) started construction of the Derby Riverboat project (now known as "Outram"), an all-electric narrowboat. Outram has [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; I have been tasked again with putting together this months newsletter to let you all know what is happening. We are now on the Covid 'road map' to trying to get the activities [...]
Today's post is from Chris S. regarding the ground clearance activities ongoing at Angler's Lane, Spondon, over the last few weeks. "After over a year of waiting to get out and deal with some dangerous Willow trees on the Anglers lane we finally had the chance to fight through 50 odd years worth of [...]