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To find out more about the
canal restoration schemes which have so rapidly transformed
the Pennines, look at
www.penninewaterways.co.uk for a virtual tour. If you'd like to put something back into the
canals you love, then join the
waterway
recovery group in
its nationwide mission to restore the unrestorable. Today's
navvies are the descendants of those who started the campaign to
re-open the Huddersfield in 1974; truly, nothing is impossible.
No previous experience is needed, and you will find fresh air
and exercise with a difference; and navvies take their fun at
least as seriously as their work. The most important national
campaigning body, whose work is never done, is the
Inland Waterways
Association. Join today! There's a mine of information on Canal Junction (who masterfully mastermind our site), about canal history, engineering, customs, scenery, maps, and useful lists of boatyard services, hotel boats and independent hire fleets, all of good quality.
Local canal societies do
essential work in promoting and conserving their waterways.
These ones have websites: The UK Waterways Web ring gives access to a sort of controlled anarchy, with as many different uncommercial slants on canal life as you can imagine, and all the canal societies.
George's Canal
Pages started
it all on the internet and are more personal, including accounts of trips on
canals all over the world, and discussion sections. |
To catch up with a real preserved-but-active working narrow boat, look at MB Swallow, which lives at the Black Country Museum but travels widely round the system - and has visited Sowerby Bridge for the first time in its 75 year life. For calm and useful advice on boating etiquette, see Considerate Boater. Sowerby Bridge has a complete directory, and Hebden Bridge has the Hebweb. For things to do round our local canals, see visitcalderdale.co.uk or pennineyorkshire.com. For the Huddersfield canals, see Kirklees Council. Or discover everything that's going on in Yorkshire.com, or try I Yorkshire Holiday – the new Yorkshire Holiday Accommodation website. For boating holidays elsewhere in the country, look at our colleagues in Drifters - Narrowboat and canal boating holidays in the UK. UK Canal boating holidays. Narrowboat and canalboat hire from the very best operators from a choice of 30 bases around Britain. Together we offer nationwide coverage of quality-assessed boats, with instant online availability.
We also recommend these small
firms: Look at the current project of Mosaic Maker to learn about art being planned for our sanitary station! For the best in control panels and electrical switches go to Axon Components. |
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