The Wooden Canal Boat Society
The
Wooden Canal Boat Society is a charity dedicated to saving, restoring
and using on community projects some of the real old wooden working
boats of Britain's canal network.
We are based on the Ashton canal in Manchester.
These craft are a vital but hitherto largely neglected part of the canal
heritage. Less than 200 wooden working boats now survive on over 2000
miles of inland waterways. The W.C.B.S. is saving as many as it can,
when restored they function not as dead museum pieces but as living
working boats serving today's community.