Text Donations to the Derby & Sandiacre Trust are now available The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust has signed up to the Donr platform to enable mobile phone users to make a one-off donation. This can be done by simply texting one of our unique keywords to 70085 followed by the amount of their donation which can [...]
Welcome to February Edition of the Newletter, Where do I start this month... January has gone, and we are now approaching Spring when the leaves start to turn green and wildlife comes back into our lives. The big news is that the work on the Sandiacre Lock has started, excavation of the lock and [...]
We wish founder chairman Paul Horton Turner a speedy recovery from his second heart attack suffered last week. Anyone who knows Paul will know that his life is a challenging balance between his accounting practice, his farm, Rotary, Sailing and of course canal matters. Paul had already taken the warning of his first heart attack [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society Welcome to the latest edition of the new format newsletter. Work at the bottom lock in Sandiacre has increased somewhat! We now have a date to commence the dig out after receiving a better priced offer from another company that was half of the original [...]
Chairman's Report - October 2018 Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society, Welcome to edition number two of the new format newsletter, feed-back has been positive, with a few suggestions to help us move forward with spreading the word in a more up to date method. Work at the newly acquired land in [...]
Change your Commute - Travel along the Derby & Sandiacre Canal Line We're inviting you to change the way you get to work for just one week... If you live near the proposed route of the restored Derby & Sandiacre Canal and can use the current footpath to walk, run or cycle to work [...]
Waterways Recovery Group arrived on Saturday 21st July and started work in earnest at Borrowash on the Sunday morning. Great progress has already been made by the team of some 19 volunteers. A mobile spider crane arrived on Monday to lift large stone blocks, some weighing up to 2.5 ton. Over the week we anticipate [...]
The Canal Cottages scaffold is Up! Fancy lending a hand? Despite Christmas and New Years there has been plenty of progress at both Draycott and the Canal Cottages; Hedges have been trimmed for the spring, and with great support of the working parties over the festive period we've got the site in a [...]
