Builder of the Shrewsbury Canal, Telford was responsible for the creation of a whole new profession. Canals were built in response to the growing industry in Shropshire, including the mines in the ...

Builder of the Shrewsbury Canal, Telford was responsible for the creation of a whole new profession. Canal plan leaps first hurdle S&N Canal Trust appoint engineers to survey the route of the canals.

And although it was not a canal boat - it was a small plastic dinghy being used functionally during work to tidy and clear the canal - it marks a symbolic step towards realising the ambition of ...

The National Trust, as part of its conservation work, has harvested a section of poplar trees alongside Pelham Road at Berwick Wharf. These were in poor condition and the trees will grow back better ...

Shrewsbury & Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski has written to Stuart Andrew, Under Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Civil Society, asking for his support to the scheme – which would connect the ...

Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust will be staging the Norbury Canal Festival at Norbury Junction from Saturday, April 29 to Monday, May 1 The annual Norbury Canal Festival will return to Norbury ...

The Shrewsbury Canal was officially abandoned in 1944 and nature began to take over the route. Pictures taken in 1950 show the canal much as it was when in use, but things were to change. Great ...

There's no doubt that the attitude to canals has changed dramatically in the last 50 or so years. The railway company bosses who abandoned much of Britain's canal network in the 1940s obviously ...