Our Working Party leader, Eddy Case, has began a series of Community Recycle Boxes for Mobiles & Ink Cartridges. Two weeks into the trail of community drop-in recycling centre at the Coach and Horses in Draycott has produced un-expected results. We have managed to recycle 16 used ink cartridges (12 of which we will be [...]
Hello Members, The last evening meeting before the Summer break is almost with us. We will be meeting at the Wilmot Arms on Derby Road Borrowash, DE72 3HA from 8pm for a light hearted topic unrelated to canals with the title “Humour from the Bench” by Cliff Warner JP. The idea is to send you [...]
Thanks to the small but reasonably happy band that turned up we made it a successful day at Hayworth Park near Sandiacre on Sunday 12th July. The objective was to get questionnaires and pictures, create awareness of the lock dig that is planned for the Spring next year, and possibly raise some money at the [...]
Two weeks away and still lots of work being done on the canal and at various shows and events. This week we attended Draycott to clear the foot-path of overgrowth that was restricting access to the route that runs under Derby Road, we also cleared more brambles from the edge of the main road. June [...]
We are applying for funds from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project to explore the canal heritage and then reinstate the section from the Sandiacre bottom lock (the junction with the Erewash Canal), through to Springfield Avenue in Sandiacre, which was infilled in 1968. As an early part of the heritage project we are [...]
