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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Members, Stepping Aside Firstly, Eddy has, for personal reasons and the upcoming merger of the Trust and Society, decided to step back from any organizational role within the Society and Trust, hence the task of this update has fallen to me. I know he will be greatly missed and I would like to [...]
Tree Management along the Canal route The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust now owns, or is responsible for the maintenance of, large tracks of the route of the Derby Canal. There are large numbers of trees along the route, and as trees become diseased or reach the end of their life span they must [...]
The story so far at Draycott After some delays, the work at Draycott got underway in the middle of November on digging out the section of canal that runs parallel to Derby Road in Draycott. Due to finding water voles along the central section of the canal at Draycott, during [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Hello again! At last, the days are beginning to draw out, even if it has brought the snow season with it! Kate Birtles Award 2020 I have at least had the pleasure of presenting Don [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Hello again, Still here in lockdown - but at least the shortest day has gone and the sun is fighting back along with the spring flowers popping up. Working Parties suspended Not a lot [...]
Covid-19 Update The Governments restrictions, regarding the new Tier5 Lockdown that has now gone nationwide. This means that we are all restricted to staying at home and going out to shop for food only. Our working parties are therefore cancelled on all sites, and at the cottages, until further notice. We will review this in line [...]