K and A Trust Whitewash!
Well, Lime Mortar Training Course actually. BW is running a training course in Lime Mortar techniques for Kennet and Avon Canal Trust Working Party Volunteers. There are 12 places. The course will be...
View ArticleAutumn work boat parties need crew
The K and A Trust is looking for crew for the work boat Vale of Pewsey during October and November. The boat will be used to help with the rebuilding of the boundary wall by the Tithe Barn in Bradford...
View ArticleParties boat work – rearrange these words
The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust has resumed regular work parties in the Bradford on Avon area with the workboat Vale of Pewsey. Volunteers are welcome to join the crew. They will be cutting back the...
View ArticleTowpath tidy Sat 10th November – please join in!
There will be a towpath tidy this Saturday 10th November, organised by boaters. Please meet at Dundas wharf at 9.45am for a 10am start. The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust volunteers are also helping with...
View ArticleNABO AGM at Bradford on Avon, 17th November
This year the National Association of Boat Owners’ AGM will be at the Beef and Barge at Bradford on Avon Marina on Saturday 17th November. Non-members are invited to the second half of the AGM starting...
View ArticleTowpath tidied!
Last Saturday a group of liveaboard boaters cleared rubbish from the towpath between Dundas and Bathampton, with the help of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust’s work boat crew. The photo shows the group...
View ArticlePensioner publicises ‘No Evictions’ campaign during royal visit
The banner below was seen on a pensioner’s boat during the recent royal visit to Devizes. On Monday 7th April, Princess Anne presented the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service to the Kennet and Avon...
View ArticleFire service to hold training exercise on K&A
Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service is to hold an exercise on at Horton on Sunday 12th October to sharpen firefighters’ skills in dealing with boat fires. The exercise will also include one of the...
View ArticleMark Stephens wins K&A Trust John Gould award
Yesterday the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust presented former K&A manager Mark Stephens with the Trust’s John Gould Award for 2014. The award is presented to a person or group who has “undertaken...
View ArticleHire boats for Burbage Wharf?
It appears that the historic Burbage Wharf is likely to become a second K&A hire boat base for Oxfordshire Narrowboats, who already run hire boats from Bradford Wharf. There are two permanent...
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