Our 12 Man Kitty Boat at Woking: winter maintenance Covid prevented Kitty’s normal return to service around the Easter holiday and she stayed looking rather forlorn under a black tarpaulin until late spring, but passenger trips were able to resume in July and she rapidly became very busy again. Kitty was operational on four days […]
Fencing off the Society land at Odiham The work party has been finishing off the fence along the boundary of the land the society purchased that extends from the Galleon Marine yard downstream to the embankment of the Odiham bypass bridge. We did most of the main run from the Galleon end towards the bypass in […]
First, a massive thank you to the 208 people who made pledges adding up to £14,627 in our crowd funding campaign run for 6 weeks before Christmas. The overall campaign has just about hit halfway, with the amount raised getting close to £100,000 comprising the crowd funding, a grant from the Swire Foundation, grants from local Waitrose branches, a bequest […]
A busy winter season of works is now underway with water levels being reduced ready for the bed re-lining at Crookham Deeps between Chequers bridge and Poulters bridge in Hampshire. You may well see that water levels along the whole of the Hampshire section of the Canal will be reduced for the next few months, […]
We have received the following from the Canal Manager Fiona Shipp: “Due to ongoing leak issues at Crookham Deeps Embankment (between Chequers bridge Crookham Wharf and Poulters Bridge in Hampshire) We will be reducing the water levels over the next few days to -150mm on the Hampshire Pound between Greywell and Ash Lock. This is […]