Canal Cottage Tours On the Saturday 28th August 2021, at 11 am to 3pm, come and join a free guided tour of the canal cottages. These tours will align with the Scarecrow Festival being held at Draycott on that weekend. The cottages are located along Hopwell Road, Draycott DE72 3PE. The tours will be held [...]
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 [...]
DSCT AGM 2021 Please note that this year's AGM will be held on the 11th August starting at 7pm. The papers for the AGM can be found here. We hope you can join us either in person at the Royal Oak in Ockbrook, or online via Zoom. If you wish to attend the Zoom meeting, [...]
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. [...]
A lick of paint for the Canal Cottages As lockdown restrictions continue to ease, it has become easier to get volunteers on-site at the Draycott canal cottages. The build is progressing to its final stages, with the outhouse roof now being fitted. Inside, 2 of the 3 cottages have now started to get painted [...]
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 [...]