Category Archives: Shropshire Union Canal Society

Northern Canal Association Meeting

The Northern Canal Association’s (NCA) Autumn meeting for 2024 was hosted by the Society and took place in Llanymynech village hall. Headed ‘The Montgomery Canal, Bridging the Gap – Past, Present and Future’, the event […]

November 2024 work party report

November 1-3 This work party saw the completion of all channel and towpath deliverables for the original scope of the Rural Prosperity Fund grant – five months ahead of schedule! Given the torrential rain and […]

October 2024 work party report

October 4-6 In what promised to be a full-on work party with a tense finish, we crossed the line with hours to spare. The challenge? To complete all the channel works and construct a temporary […]

Grand Draw

The Restore the Montgomery Canal! Appeal group has launched a Grand Draw with prizes as follows: All of the prize fund and raffle expenses have been covered by a generous donor. So every ticket sold […]

Pat Wilson

The Society is sorry to pass on the sad news that Pat Wilson, who was chair of the Society three times, died in Leighton Hospital on Sunday, October 6 aged 94. The Society extends its […]

Making the money go further

With still six months left to run, the current project at Crickheath funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (see here) is ahead of schedule and below budget. The Society has therefore sought permission to […]

Restore the Montgomery Canal! appeal

The Restore the Montgomery Canal! appeal has now raised £163,000 of the £250,000 target it set itself. The money will be put towards the next stage of the restoration: ‘Closing the Shropshire Gap’. (For a […]

September 2024 work party report

September 6-8 Two out of three’s not bad. Benign weather on Friday and Saturday helped enormously but Sunday was soggy. The top priority now is to complete channel works in Phase 1A before this area […]

August 2024 work party report

August 16-18 In what feels like ‘the end of an era’, we say goodbye to John and Paul the wallers. Work to repair the former tramway wharf wall is now complete. Starting in April last […]