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Edition 211 Autumn Boundary Edition 211 Post Autumn The 24th Bonfire Rally this year led by Dave Dent comes to an end. How many Society’s would see over 25 members turn up around 8 o’clock the morning after to clear up? Answer-The BCN Society!!! Thank you to all of them. The Journal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society Free to members £1 when sold Boundary Post Winter 2016 Boundary Post Winter 2016 Council Members - 2014 - 2015 President : Martin O’Keeffe Vice-Presidents: Ron Cousens, Phil Clayton, Cllr. David Sparks, Rob Starkey, Chairman & web man: Press & Publicity: CHARLEY JOHNSTON 07825816623 Kath O’’Keeffe [email protected] [email protected] Vice Chair & Rally Organiser Press & Publicity Assistant BARRIE JOHNSON 0121 422 4373 Martin O’Keeffe [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer: Sales: DAVE DENT REBECCA SMITH KEARY 38 Greenland Mews, London, SE8 5JW [email protected] 01562 850234 020 8691 9190 [email protected] Health & Safety Secretary: & Planning Officer VACANT POSITION IVOR CAPLAN tel: 07778685764 [email protected] Supporting members to Council Membership Talks and Presentations ALAN VENESS tel: 0121 355 4732 PHIL CLAYTON 07890921413 43 Pilkington Ave, Sutton Coldfield, B72 [email protected] 1LA email: [email protected] Work Party Administrator Work Party Co-ordinator: Michael Smith-Keary 01562 850234 MIKE ROLFE 07763 171735 [email protected] [email protected] BCNS Explorer Cruise Buildings & Heritage Stuart & Marie Sherratt 07510167288 VACANT POSITION [email protected] Boundary Post Editor BCNS 24 Hour Challenge BRENDA WARD Roy Kenn 01922 428644 [email protected] 0121 355 6351 John Carrington [email protected] Youth/Community Liaison Officer KATE SELF [email protected] Fundraiser: 07929401682 Mike Butler Archives & Heritage Boats Official Photographer IVOR CHAMBERS tel: 0121 707 1690 Ann Johnson [email protected] Atlas & Malus Manager Social Secretary Paul Smith: [email protected] GEOFF WINSLOW [email protected] 2 31 Boundary Post Winter 2016 Boundary Post Winter 2016 BCNS Social Meetings Contents Page held on the first Thursday in the month Council Details 2 Notes from start at 7-30pmTitford Pumphouse Editorial 3 Engine Street Oldbury B69 4NL Chairman’s notes 4 the Editor Walsall MP visits Town Basin 5 Jeans Stall Results 5 Spring Cruise to Bradley W.S. 6 Happy New Year to you all. February 4th - Birmingham’s newest Industrial Museum:- New- Reading through this edition it is full of man Brothers Coffin Fittings Works - Simon Buteux Birmingham President’s Report 8 Memberships 8 interesting happenings to look forward to in Conservation Trust 2016 - plenty of work for our volunteers! Share the Space 9 Letters to the Editor 10 We have some of our regular articles by March 3rd - The London and North Western Railway- An illus- Atlas & Malus Report 11 Ray, Andy & now Keith with several other BCN Events 2016 12 small additions worthy of note too including trated talk about the railway - Ted Talbot 24 Hour Challenge 13 the ongoing concern about cycling on the Dudley Archives Open Day 14 towpaths with the “Sharing the Space” April 7th - A Look Back at the Restoration of the Southern Sec- W & B Canal Ray Shill 15 meeting with CRT. I’m sure this will all settle tion of the Stratford upon Avon Canal - Alasdair Lawrence Toll End Locks Keith Hodgkins 18 down but as with anywhere there will be the BCNS Social Meetings 2016 19 inconsiderate members of the public doing W&E Poem Chris Turton 20 what they do in a selfish way. Book Review 22 This year sees all the usual events along Explorer Cruises & 24 Hour Challenge Forgotten BCN Andy Tidy 23 with the IWA Pelsall Festival with the Fred Heritage RIP 25 Sherratts organising a third Explorer Cruise Both these events have introduced so many boaters to the BCN over Work Party Report Mike Rolfe 28 and as with all their others the Walsall the past few years and for the organisation we must thank Stuart & Social Meetings 30 Canal is bound to feature. You will note on Membership Form 31 Marie Sherratt for the Explorer Cruises and Roy Kenn & John Car- page 5 that the Walsall M.P. Valerie Vaz has taken a great interest in “her” canal. We rington for the 24 Hour Challenge. can hope for some results! I do not have the complete numbers but you can get a good idea from Next Boundary Post Rubbish on the BCN never will go away as long as people live in the Midlands so our the fact that each year Stuart & Marie lead 2 Explorer Cruises with Editor welcomes any interesting approximately 20 on each one for the past 4 years. This year I believe constant efforts to remove it is so important. I note that the rubbish collected on the BCN they will be organising 3, their usual 2 and a cruise before the IWA relevant information relating to the BCN in the form of news Challenge should be brought back to the Event in August. finish to be disposed of “responsibly” and items, photographs, not left on tow paths or in hedges as we Roy Kenn resurrected the 24 Hour Challenge with the late Graham letters, notes or articles to be sometimes see as we travel the BCN. Worton in 2010 and numbers have increased each year since, over 40 sent by Maybe a trophy for the most rubbish last year. collected would be a good incentive. March 1st The Society appreciates the organisers of these two events—they Lastly - Parkesine is the trademark for the St David’s Day!! first man-made plastic, nitrocellulose. It was really put the BCN & the Society on the map!! Well Done!! patented by Alexander Parkes in 1862. See Email: [email protected] Ray Shill’s article on page 17. Great to The BCN Society, a Company Limited by Guarantee, is a registered charity (1091760) first formed in 1968, which Address: 9 Wylde Green Road, know that the beginnings of plastic began exists to conserve, improve and encourage a wide range of interests in the 100 mile network of Birmingham & Black Sutton Coldfield B72 1HB with a man who had a business in Country waterways known as the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Boundary Post is the journal of the BCNS and is Birmingham. issued quarterly. Readers are invited to submit items of news, general or historical interest to: Tel: 01213556351 The Editor, Brenda Ward. 9 Wylde Green Road, Sutton Coldfield B72 1HB Brenda tel: 0121 355 6351 email: [email protected] Mobile: 07961177553 30 3 Boundary Post Winter 2016 Boundary Post Winter 2016 Chairman’s We are celebrating this development by Future Work parties making the Bradley Lock Gate Work- Notes shops the destination for our Spring January 16th. Based around the Pumphouse. 10 am start. Cruise. They will be open - a must to from Charley February 13th. Venue to be decided. visit, especially if you haven’t been Johnston there before. (See website and page 6 March 12th. Venue to be decided. for details.) April 16th and 17th. BCN Clean up. A lot will be changing on the BCN - and The Round House is a wonderful, and the great thing is that it is for the better. probably unique, circular stable, on the May 7th. Pre-Rally Tidy up on the Titford canal. BCN main a few hundred yards from The first steps have been made to re- Old Turn Junction. It has been grossly store the Lapal Canal (or Dudley No. 2 underused for years, but now has a canal in traditional terminology), linking much brighter future, as C&RT and the the Worcester and Birmingham canal to BCN CLEAN UP—16th/17th April 2016 National Trust have jointly got develop- Hawne Basin. Carey’s, the main con- ment funding of nearly a quarter of a The big annual BCN Cleanup, with the BCN Society working alongside Coombeswood Ca- tractors involved at the Battery , have million pounds, that should extend out nal Trust, Dudley Canal Trust the Canal & River Trust and the Birmingham IWA & Waterway cleared the canal from the Battery to a full £2.9 million for complete resto- Recovery Group & local volunteers will take place next April. Works up to the Harborne Wharf. ration. As the adjacent “Fiddle & Bone” Come along under the auspices of any of the groups. If you want accommodation and food Though work replacing an alternative to provided, book through the WRG web site. If you are staying with them, accommodation is pub (part of the same complex) has the collapsed Lapal Tunnel won’t be available from the night of 17th, at the malt house stables, Tipton. recently re-opened, this central canal starting this week or next, and it will be The cleanup location is not sorted yet - will be published as soon as decided. working site should be preserved for the a while before the basin is in water, it is You are welcome to come and join us - wear stout footwear and old clothes. Waterproofs foreseeable future. hugely encouraging that a start has could be a good move. Tea and coffee are provided for everyone but bring your own pack lunch, unless you are been made. When the connection is In 2016 the IWA is holding its “Festival making a weekend of it through the WRG. made to the Worcester Birmingham ca- of Water” at Pelsall Common on the Chris Morgan will be leading the group, and can be contacted by email [email protected] nal, it will provide some moorings, a Wyrley and Essington canal on the winding hole, and a slipway for the local August bank holiday weekend.
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