D&SC Society AGM 2019 - 4th November The Derby & Sandiacre Canal Society Annual General Meeting for 2019 will be held at the Royal Oak, Ockbrook. The event will start at 7.30pm on Monday 4th November. Find links below to this year's agenda, and the minutes from the 2018 AGM. D&SC Society AGM 2019 Agenda [...]
Chairman's Update - July 2019 Dear Members of the Derby & Sandiacre Canal Society, Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter, I suppose the big news of the month is the horrific fire that was set alight under the bridge at Sandiacre. A lot of damage was done to the structure of the [...]
D&SC Trust AGM 2019 There will be an Annual General Meeting of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust to be held at The Royal Oak, Green Lane, Ockbrook, DE72 3SE, at 7.30pm on the 10th July 2019 in the main hall. This meeting will be open to all members of the Trust and Society to [...]
*** Apologies from the webmaster for this late post - it turns out a new baby and a house move do not mix well! *** Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society, Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter. Draycott Open Day As open days go, you have a good one [...]
*** Apologies from the webmaster for this late post - it turns out a new baby and a house move do not mix well! *** Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society, Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter. Another busy month, often not quiet for the correct reason. My apologies [...]
Topping Out Ceremony at Draycott After many months of hard work at the Draycott cottages, the working party got an opportunity for a little celebration on a cold and frosty February morning. On the 3rd February 2019, the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust had a small ceremony to mark the completion of the roofs [...]
Do you live within 15 miles of Spondon? Do you have a Blue Coop Group membership card? If you can answer yes to both of these then please sign in to your Coop membership and chose The Derby & Sandiacre Canal Trust appeal as your chosen charity! Please note this will initially only offer [...]
The Bridge Inn Public House Function Room, Longmoor Lane - 14th November Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust’s long term aim is to restore the canal from Lock Lane, Sandiacre to Swarkestone via Derby. We have now acquired the stretch of canal path from Lock Lane to Bostocks Lane and the first stage to restoration [...]
What a fantastic effort! As of 12th July we've raised just over £4,000 for support the restoration of Borrowash Bottom Lock during our IWA WRG visit in July, which is a fantastic effort by all involved. We can't thank you all enough for your generosity; all of the donations will go towards [...]
The appeal is to raise funds to restore the Lock in Borrowash. We have a small army of national volunteers working with us in late July and we need to raise funding for equipment and materials to get the job done. We need the reasonably modest sum of £4,000 to achieve this as we have [...]
