Southampton Canal Society April 2019 Newsletter Issue 554
In this issue: Chairman’s Column Chairman’s Column 1 April 4th Meeting June Meeting - Thursday 6th Preston canal turns to sand 1 This evening please give a warm welcome to Chris Paul Gosli g p o ises us : Gosli g s Galli a ts Changes to short-term licences 1 Witts and his talk about his life on the River Pa t T o This ill o e tou s a ou d “ otla d “e e . This i ludes the ta ke t ade i the 6 s covering boats, trains and docks. Changes to Online Mooring 1 th ough to the g ai t ade i the s. Policy In the meantime, enjoy this variable spring May Meeting weather. Subscriptions for 2019/20 1 As always, there is NO May meeting as the Hall Thank you for your support. Itchen Navigation 1 may be commandeered for elections. Alan Rose Waterways Events 2 & 3 Preston canal turns to sand Huddersfield Canal lock gates 3 get Chelsea makeover A 50m length of the Lancaster Canal in Preston looks like it March Meeting 4 has been in filled with sand and is solid enough to walk on. A non-native species of water fern called Azolla (Azolla Wey & Arun Canal Trust 4 filiculoides) has grown along the length between Roebuck awarded design accolade Street and Blackpool Road. The plant is harmless to both people and animals and should Subscriptions for 2019/20 disappea atu all late i the sp i g o e the pla t s natural predator a weevil appears and starts to feast on the As agreed at the last AGM, the subscription rate for 2019/20 is fern. unchanged at £16.00 for a single A spokes a fo C‘T is uoted as sa i g: The pla t PHOTOS: Colin Wareing of Colin and member and £27.00 for joint normally dies back in winter but due to the relatively warm Carole’s Creations www.colinandcarolescreations.co.uk membership. o ditio s o e the last fe o ths, this has t happe ed Subscriptions are due at the this ea . T ust e ologists a e a a e of the p o le a d April 4th meeting. will be employing the usual control methods to try and e o e it. This i ol es a io o t ol age t – basically a Aelred Derbyshire certain type of insect that eats the plant. Hon Treasurer Itchen Navigation As ith all atu al egetatio a age e t, solutio s a e often not quick and easy, and unfortunately these insects The last barge to carry a cargo a e ot a aila le u til Ma . Ho e e , e ill get o top of to Winchester tied up at Black- the problem this spring and hopefully return the canal to bridge Wharf 150 years ago in lea e ate agai fo the su e . June 1869 loaded with coal. Towpath Talk - March 27, 2019 To commemorate this event, I have been busy redesigning and Changes to short-term licences updating the part of the “o iet s e site o e ed FOLLOWING the national licensing consultation The Trust will continue to offer short term licences with the Navigation. last year, the Canal & River Trust is announcing for visitors and those who have boats off the changes to the short-term licences the charity water and will remove the daily licence. Provision In particular, I am expanding the and updating the description of offers to visiting boaters. will be made for discounts for legitimate cruising the route from Blackbridge Nearly eight out of ten of those who shared their clubs who host events that require one day Wharf to Northam with many views on short-term licences felt it was fair to licences. The revised prices are available via the new modern pictures and a withdraw one-day licences but retain one week, T ust s Useful downloads, application forms and licence fees webpage. number of older ones. one month, and thirty-da fle i le e plo e These changes have not yet licences, and price these proportionately to reflect Towpath Talk - March 27, 2019 ee put o li e (so do t t to the greater administrative costs. find them - yet) but hopefully the ill go li e a ou d the Changes to Online Mooring Policy end of June. One problem is that Laura and I will be going boating CRT have updated their Online Mooring Policy moorings have been removed. following a consultation at the end of 2017, and a at Easte a d o t e ho e “e o dl , si gle e d of ga de oo i g appli- until mid-June. I will make a further review. There are two key areas of change. cations will now be considered against privately- further announcement in a They will be ending the automatic online owned land, not just that which has a residential future Newsletter. reduction policy, whereby they had previously dwelling on it. Permission will only be granted to I am also hoping to produce removed one long-term online mooring for the the landowner and sub-letting the mooring will Ne slette s hilst I a a . creation of every ten off-line marina moorings. In not be permitted. Further details on the CRT Peter Oates, Editor the last 10 years nearly 600 online permanent website.
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Waterways Events The following is a list of waterway events taking place within OS grid references and/or postcodes are shown (where known but not approximately 50 miles of Southampton. Whilst every effort is made to guaranteed) to aid location of the event. ensure the correctness of this information, please check with the listed If YOU know of an event taking place that should be in this list then please contact who will be glad to confirm and supply further details. contact the editor. Date/Time Organiser Details Venue Contact Thu 4 Apr Kennet & Avon Branch AGM. Stone Building, Wharf Road, Julie Dean. Email: 2019 7.30pm CT (Newbury) Newbury, RG14 5AS (SU472671). [email protected] Thu 4 Apr Southampton “My life on the River Severn” based on the Chilworth Village Hall, Angela Rose: 02380 675312 2019 7.45pm CS Tanker Trade in the 1960s and the grain trade in Chilworth, Southampton, Email: [email protected] the 1980s by Chris Witts. SO16 7JZ (SU410184). Sun 7 Apr National Trust Mandy's Walk. From the Colonel Grounds north of Parking at Broadwater Lake car National Trust Navigations Office: 2019 10.30am- Godalming to Bramley with the River Wey volunteers. park, GU7 3BX. (SU985452). This 01483 561389 Email: 1.30pm Return via disused railway line to Broadford and then venue should be confirmed with [email protected] Web: back along the towpath. Bring a packed lunch. National Trust. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ Tue 16 Apr Kennet & Avon Speaker TBA. Entry donation £2.50 (incl K&A members) Grange Free Church Hall, Circuit John Swift: 0118 941 5540 Email: 2019 7.45pm CT (Reading Br) – to help pay for the meeting. Lane, Southcote, Reading, RG30 [email protected] Mobile: 3HD (SU692718). 07533 886917. Wed 17 Apr Basingstoke CS “Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit.” Officer Parish Pavilion, Recreation Email: chobham.talks@basingstoke- 2019 8.00pm William Sargent will talk about the Marine Policing Unit Ground, Station Road, Chobham, canal.org.uk Web: www.basingstoke- (MPU) which is responsible for policing the 47 miles of GU24 8AZ (SU974615) canal.org.uk River Thames within the Met area (Dartford to Hampton Court) as well as providing a specialist response to over 250 miles of canals and waterways, lakes and reservoirs and other bodies of water in London. Sat-Mon 20-22 Kennet & Avon Easter weekend steaming. Adults: £8.00 Concessions: Crofton Beam Engines, Crofton, Web: www.croftonbeamengines.org Apr 2019 CT, Crofton £7.00 Children under 16: Free. Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 10.30am- Branch 3DW (SU261623). 4.30pm Sat 20 Apr The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 2019 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Sun 21 Apr Somersetshire Walk - Radford to Camerton - guided walk. Meet at Camerton Heritage Site, Derrick Hunt: 01225 863066 Email: 2019 10.00am Coal CS BA2 0PB (ST681579)(Park in [email protected] Durcott Lane). Sat 27 Apr The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 2019 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Thu 2 May Southampton NO MEETING. As always, there is NO May Angela Rose: 02380 675312 2019 CS meeting. Email: [email protected] Sat-Mon 4-6 Kennet & Avon Early May Bank Holiday steaming. Adults: £8.00 Crofton Beam Engines, Crofton, Web: www.croftonbeamengines.org May 2019 CT, Crofton Concessions: £7.00 Children under 16: Free. Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 10.30am- Branch 3DW (SU261623). 4.30pm Sat 4 May The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 2019 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Tue 7 May National Trust Tollhouse Turbine Tour. Electric boat trip to Millmead Dapdune Wharf, Wharf Road, National Trust Navigations Office: 2019 11.00am- Lock for a tour of the Toll House, where a reinstated Guildford, Surrey GU1 4RR 01483 561389 Email: 1.00pm & turbine is once again generating hydro-electricity. Return (SU992502). [email protected] Web: 2.00pm- trip to Dapdune Wharf. Places limited - booking is https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ 4.00pm essential on 01483 561389. £12.50 per person. Sat 11 May The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 2019 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Sat 18 May The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 2019 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Sun 19 May Somersetshire Visit - Saltford Brass Mill. The mill is the only surviving Meet at Saltford Brass Mill, The Derrick Hunt: 01225 863066 Email: 2019 10.00am Coal CS building, still with a furnace and working water wheel, Shallows, Saltford, BS31 3EY. [email protected] remaining from a group of 18th century mills making (ST687669) copper and brass goods in the Avon Valley. Sun 19 May Wey & Arun CT Pulborough to Pallingham Boat Rally. This aims to confirm Launching from Pulborough Please register for event on website. 2019 1.00pm- the right of navigation on the River Arun above slipway. Adj to The Corn Store, Further information, please email. 4.00pm Pulborough, reaching the site of the junction with the London Road, Pulborough, RH20 Trust Office: 01483 505566 Email: Wey and Arun then on to the navigable limit at 2BJ (TQ045184). Map of slipway [email protected] Web: Pallingham Quay. No entry fee, but donations towards here. Canoes can launch at www.weyarun.org.uk costs welcome. Launching times to be announced nearer Stopham Bridge, RH20 1DS the date. Further info on website. (TQ030183). Map here. Tue 21 May Kennet & Avon Joint meeting with IWA Guildford & Reading Br. Entry Grange Free Church Hall, Circuit John Swift: 0118 941 5540 Email: 2019 7.45pm CT (Reading Br) donation £2.50 (incl K&A members) – to help pay for the Lane, Southcote, Reading, RG30 [email protected] Mobile: meeting. 3HD (SU692718). 07533 886917. Continued on page 3 Issue 554 : April 2019 Page 3
Waterway Events (continued from page 2) Date/Time Organiser Details Venue Contact Tue 21 May National Trust Tollhouse Turbine Tour. Electric boat trip to Millmead Dapdune Wharf, Wharf Road, National Trust Navigations Office: 2019 11.00am- Lock for a tour of the Toll House, where a reinstated Guildford, Surrey GU1 4RR 01483 561389 Email: 1.00pm & turbine is once again generating hydro-electricity. Return (SU992502). [email protected] Web: 2.00pm- trip to Dapdune Wharf. Places limited - booking is https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ 4.00pm essential on 01483 561389. £12.50 per person. Sat-Mon 25-27 Kennet & Avon Late May Bank Holiday steaming. Adults: £8.00 Crofton Beam Engines, Crofton, Web: www.croftonbeamengines.org May 2019 CT, Crofton Concessions: £7.00 Children under 16: Free. Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 10.30am- Branch 3DW (SU261623). 4.30pm Sat 25 May The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 2019 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Sat 1 Jun 2019 The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Sun 2 Jun 2019 Wey & Arun CT “The Poddle” - WACT’s annual sponsored walk and Bramley Village Hall, Hall Road, Trust Office: 01483 505566 Email: major fundraiser. Circular walk to include part of the Bramley, Surrey, GU5 0AX [email protected] Poddle canal. Start between 9am - 10.30am from Bramley Village (TQ009449). co-ordinator email: Hall, via Farley Green Village Hall where lunch will be [email protected] provided, Blackheath, Albury and back to the start. Web: weyarun.org.uk/events39 Possible to do morning only. Further details and registration on website. Thu 6 Jun Southampton “Goslings’ Gallivants Part Two”. Paul Gosling will Chilworth Village Hall, Angela Rose: 02380 675312 2019 7.45pm CS be showing us “Around Scotland – boats, trains & Chilworth, Southampton, Email: [email protected] docks”. SO16 7JZ (SU410184). Sat 8 Jun 2019 The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Tue 11 Jun Somersetshire Annual General Meeting 2019. Radstock Museum, Waterloo Rd, Patrick Moss: 07736 859882 Email: 2019 7.30pm Coal CS Radstock, BA3 3EP (ST689549). [email protected] For location see map here Sat 15 Jun Reading BC and Reading Water Fest. Festival of boats, entertainment and River Kennet, Forbury Gardens John Swift: 0118 941 5540 Mobile: 2019 11.00am- Kennet & Avon stalls. Great family day out. Admission is free. and Chestnut Walk, RG13AH. 07533 886917 Email: 5.00pm CT (Reading Br) (SU719734) [email protected] Sat 15 Jun The Claverton Claverton Pumping Station. Pumping day. Adults: £6.00, Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Tel: 01225 483001 Email: 2019 10.00am- Group Accompanied Children under 16 free, no concessions. Lane, Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BH [email protected] Web: 5.00pm (ST790643). www.claverton.org Wed 19 Jun Mikron Theatre Redcoats. No tickets required, cash collection after The Trout Inn, St John's Bridge, The Trout Inn: 01367 252313 Web: 2019 7.30pm show. Bar, food and refreshments available. Bring chairs Faringdon Road, Lechlade On www.thetroutinn.com or and blankets. Outdoor show - shelter if bad weather. Thames, GL7 3HA (SU223990). mikron.org.uk Thu 20 Jun IWA Salisbury Boules & BBQ. The Green Dragon, Old Road, Ron & Myra Glover: 01722 710322 2019 7.00pm Group Alderbury, Salisbury, Wilts, SP5 Email: [email protected] Jon 3AR (SU182275). Van de Geer: 01722 412841 Huddersfield Canal lock gates get Chelsea makeover Work has started on two pairs(?) of old lock gates removed from the fo use at the p estigious flo e sho at the ha it s “ta le Fe Hudde sfield Na o Ca al hi h ill e the ai featu e i this ea s Worksop, where they were first made 20 years ago. Welcome to Yorkshire RHS Chelsea show garden. T o of the Ca al & ‘i e T ust s e e tl ualified app e ti es Va essa They will help to create a genuine slice of Yorkshire in the heart of Coakley and Adam Cluny will be working alongside garden designer London this May with the aim of encouraging people to visit the county Mark Gregory to ensure the authenticity of all elements on the to see its beauty first hand and experience the wellbeing benefits of its Welcome to Yorkshire garden. canal and waterway network. Mark Gregory, Garden Designer said, The 2019 garden has been designed by Yorkshireman and award- These lo k gates a e esse tial fo the authe ti it of this ea s i i g ga de desig e Ma k G ego . I spi ed Yo kshi e s p oud Wel o e to Yo kshi e Ga de a d ill eall i g the a al to life. It s i dust ial he itage a d stu i g atu al e i o e t, the ga de s the very first time two pairs of genuine gates have featured in a garden main feature is a canal, with authentic at Chelsea a d I i edi l g ateful to lock gates, which flows next to a wild Canal & River Trust for their support. pe e ial eado a d a lo k keepe s The skill of the team at the workshop is lodge with a cultivated garden. se o d to o e a d I looki g fo a d The gates, which had come to the end of to working with Vanessa and Adam, I their lifespan in Huddersfield Narrow know they will make sure everything is Canal - B itai s highest a al – have just right for the garden, which I hope been donated to Welcome to Yorkshire will be the perfect showcase for by national wellbeing and waterway Yo kshi e a d it s o de ful charity the Canal & River Trust, who look ate a s. after this canal. They are being adapted Canal and River Trust -20 March 2019 Mark Gregory with Adam Cluny and Vanessa Coakley
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President: SOUTHAMPTON CANAL SOCIETY Brian Evans. Chairman: Established 1967 Alan Rose, 33 Brackley Way, Totton, Hampshire, SO40 3HP. Tel: 02380 675312. The objectives of the Society are to foster Email: [email protected] interest in canals and inland waterways, to Secretary: assist in their preservation, restoration and Angela Rose, 33 Brackley Way, Totton, Hampshire, SO40 3HP. Tel: 02380 675312. development, and to give practical help on Email: [email protected] waterway projects. Treasurer & Membership Secretary: Meetings are normally held on the first Aelred Derbyshire, 31 Nelson Close, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 7DA. Tel: 01794 651350. Thursday of each month at 7.45pm (see Email: [email protected] Waterways Events in this issue) at Chilworth Committee: Parish Hall, Chilworth, Southampton, SO16 David Townley-Jones, Sue Derbyshire, Gordon Osborn, Robb Unsworth. 7JZ. OS Grid Ref: SU410184. Contact the Newsletter Editor & Webmaster: Secretary for further information. Peter Oates, 8 Field View, Braunston, Daventry, Northants, NN11 7JS. Tel: 01788 890102. This Newsletter is normally published during Email: [email protected] the first week of each month in time for the Society Website: http://www.sotoncs.org.uk
“o iet s eeti g. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SouthamptonCanalSociety March Meeting “tea Narro boati g ith the Re ere d Mark Rudall In the mid 1700s James Watt developed the steam engines for working Naval Packet Boats and electric boats needed steam. The SS Peace was in tin and coal mines and to pump out the water. Similar developments built and used by the Baptist Mission 1882-1906 in the Congo. We saw happened in the USA. The Somerset Coal Canal used steam powered wonderful pictures of the villagers carrying parts of the boat and engine pumps to maintain water levels. over to the other side of their island. This boat was built by Mark has been a steam man for many years, building and operating Thornycrofts on the Thames , then taken apart and transported to trailable steam launches for use on the Inland Waterways and estuaries Africa. in Britain. Using relatively lightweight engines and boilers, his present The stern of the Peace came back to the UK and Mark was able to keep kerosene-fired water tube and boiler weighs about 200lbs, and his the nameplate. single cylinder engine went in his boat without an engine hoist. Other well know steam boats: the African Queen and the Clyde Puffers. There are quite a few steaming weekends with the Steamboat For further information about this interesting talk see the IWA Cargoes Assocation look out for the FMC President, Laplander (which is the Winter 2016 and Spring 2017. oldest iron, steam-powered ice breaker. Other steam powered boats include Hasty, Adamant, the 42ft Trevor on the Basingstoke and Emily Mark is also a Waterways Chaplain and wearing his yellow waistcoat he Anne on the Coventry. keeps an eye on the needy and lonely people on the waterways, plus other boaters that enjoy a chat. Robert Stevenson built a triple expansion engine and other engineers followed. Steam became the power of the day. We were shown He is also edito of the “tea oat ua te l jou al Fu el . pictures of boats being fitted out with steam power on the Thames. The Angela Rose Wey & Arun Canal Trust awarded design accolade The Trust has scooped a that the whole highly commended community has been place in the prestigious involved, and hope the Waverley Design commitment is mirrored Awards for its i futu e p oje ts. Compasses Bridge Compasses Bridge has project. ee the T ust s ost Project engineer Tony ambitious project in Ford was presented Surrey. Construction at with the award in the the entrance to the Environment and Dunsfold Aerodrome Landscape category by site at Dunsfold/Alfold Councillor David Else at began in June 2015 and a ceremony in the bridge was officially Farnham, Surrey, last Left: How it used to look Right: The new bridge opened in October 2016 week. The awards, which celebrate good design in planning, by Dame Penelope Keith. The project involved removing a concrete architecture, sustainable development and landscaping, are organised causeway created in the 1930s, along with constructing a new road and by Waverley Borough Council and sponsored by The Haslemere Society. pedestrian bridge. The project cost £770,000, all funded by Wey & Arun Canal Trust members. Judges said: The We & A u Ca al T ust s o k at Co passes B idge has opened the whole area up to the light and created a canalside Gill Davies - Wey & Arun Canal Trust - March 20, 2019 haven. We have been impressed with the passion of the volunteers and