Eight months from site acquisition volunteers complete re-construction of 300 metre stretch of canal The seven months of preparations made by the volunteers at Vineyard Hill led to a successful Waterway Recovery Group Camp that took place over the first two weeks of April. Meetings with stakeholders to explain and agree our proposals, preparing drawings and procedures, procuring materials, setting out the line and the levels on the ground, preparing […]
Work has started on a new restoration site at Moat Farm. The aim is to restore approximately 600 yds (550 metres) of the H&G Canal at new site at Moat Farm, between Gloucester and Newent. Negotiations in January 2012 were concluded to allow a limited amount of ground clearance before the start of the bird nesting season, with further tree surgery/scrub clearance in the Autumn. Site leader, Martyn Tilford with […]
Restoration work has started at the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust’s new site at Over! Having taken most of the Trust’s legal services in house we can now move very rapidly! Indeed it is a sign of how much is currently happening that we now have the support of someone full time just on legal matters and negotiations, a resource that sees a major change in the H&G CT moving […]
Aylestone Boat Gathering – May 2011. Over 2,100 was the estimated attendance over the day of the Aylestone Boat Gathering at Aylestone Park in Hereford on 22 May 2011. Families enjoyed all the activities and attractions on offer including steam engines, vintage cars, and boat trips. The event was arranged to celebrate the completion of the new slipway as the first phase of our restoration of this section of the […]
