Category Archives: Montgomery Canal

January 9-11 “Snow stopped play” (on Friday). Although other areas fared far worse, the effects of Storm Goretti brought us different conditions each day: Friday snow; Saturday frosty but bright; Sunday cold, damp and breezy. […]

December 5-7 Muddy. The weather lately has been making up for the dry summer but we finish the year with a flourish. The main activities for the December work party were towpath construction, channel profiling […]

November 7-9 Works to March next year are supported by a grant from the Shared Prosperity Fund which covers channel restoration, towpath restoration and the winter environmental programme. This month saw the start of towpath […]

October 2-5 Although uncomfortably wet and windy at times, we were spared the worst of Storm Amy and much was achieved. As last month, the main work areas were Phase 2 (joining on from the […]

September 4-7 New compound, new era A superbly productive work party, aided by a handful of volunteers attending on Thursday for preparations in the new compound – but all of that later. First, a location […]

August 1-4 We’ve moved! Over a work party extended to four days, the two main events were starting work in Phase 2 and relocating the compound. Phase 2 of the Crickheath South project is the […]

July 4-6 & 9-10 It’s gone. The gap is no more. RIP. July was marked by two extra work party days thanks to large numbers of corporate volunteers from Colas Rail during the week following […]