Over Basin

Over Festival on the Canal 2014

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Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Trust’s ‘Over Festival on the Canal 2014’ was the most successful yet. The annual ‘Over Festival on the Canal’ was the largest so far. The site including the canal basin at Over, was visited by more than 1000 people to savour and discover and enjoy the wide variety of attractions in near perfect weather. The site is also the head office of the Herefordshire & Gloucestershire […]

Early work around Over Basin

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Since the completion of the main basin structure the volunteers at Over have not put their feet up. The service huts and ducting Two small service huts have been built along the wharf wall. These are in readiness to supply water and electricity to any boats that will be moored there. Ducting to the huts was laid as the banks around the basin were being landscaped. Further ducting was laid […]

Over Canal Basin – 2000

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First clearance work on site began in February 1998. Later in the year work started on excavating the basin, which had been filled in when the hospital was built in 1903. The work was carried out by volunteers from the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust and teams of volunteers from the Waterways Recovery Group who had a number of work camps through 1999 and 2000. Up to 50 or 60 […]