So close, but so far, the Canal Society was once again at Draycott to try and finish the 5 year task of laying over 1000 meters of hedge. Another great turn out of members enabled us to have two teams laying and also two teams as back up to clear the off cuts, alas a [...]
DHL through it's charitable foundation has again provided a donation to the Trust, this year with an increased amount of £200 in recognition of the time DHL employee Eddy Case spends volunteering in support of the Trust. Eddy supports us by: acting as the volunteer co-ordinator for our regular work parties, see photo, although Eddy [...]
It must be the warmer days that are now creeping up on us, but this week saw a record number of volunteers turn out on Sunday at Draycott to help us try to complete our aim to finish the hedge laying this year. We managed to have two teams laying the hedges and removing the [...]
The Canal society held its first working party of the New Year at Draycott on Sunday 11th January. Three teams where hard at work on a fairly chilly morning, the first team completed the tidy up at the Hopwell Road area whilst the other two teams deployed to complete some 25 meters of hedge laying [...]
Our society social meetings programme for 2015 has been finalised. Meetings take place on the second Tuesday of every month (except for August and December) at the Wilmot Arms, 49 Derby Road, Borrowash, Derby, DE72 3HA. This year we have a range of guest speakers including Eric Boultbee from Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and Ian Morgan [...]
This weeks working party was once again at Draycott, we had lots of volunteers turning up again to help in bright sunshine and warmth! This meant we where able to deploy three teams on different tasks. The first team set off to carry on the hedge laying, another successful days work with over 10 meters [...]
The Canal & River Trust actively supports restoration with a dedicated Restoration Team; this is a marked change in attitude from the former British Waterways organisation. The Restoration Team has a dedicated Restoration section on it's website that: has a map of lost waterways around the country; the Derby Canal is number 27 champions volunteering [...]
Dear Member, This is the official invitation to our Society AGM to be held at the Wilmot Arms in Derby Road, Borrowash DE72 3HA from 8pm on 28th October. Please find attached our Agenda and copies of last year’s minutes. Copies of the accounts to March will be available at the venue. Please note that [...]
This week the Canal Societies working party group met at the Draycott stretch of the canal to continue the hedge cutting along the area that was previously laid over the last two years. We had three teams working on site, one team at the Hopwell Road end, clearing the scrub that has been threatening [...]
It has been brought to the attention of the Trust that the new owners of the Moon Hotel site have felled a number of trees along their boundary with the Derby Canal line and the Spondon Winding Hole in particular. This work was done without the prior knowledge of the Trust or, it appears, Derby [...]
