From the Canal Boat Society’s facebook page:
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WCBS is taking part in The National Trust’s Heritage Open Days events.
If you live near to Ashton under Lyne please can you volunteer to help us man an information stall and show our boats off to the public. Contact : Tony Hewitson – hewitson.tony@gmail.com Thank you. OUR EVENT – Wooden Canal Boat Society Heritage Boats The Wooden Canal Boat Society boats, Portland Basin
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All our boats are now based on the canal behind Portland Basin Museum in Ashton under Lyne. Come along any time and say hello to any volunteers working on them. HAZEL is one of the few surviving wooden boats from the Northern parts of the canal system. She was built at
Continue readingCome for a canal trip with us – recycling trips – dates to end of 2015
For those of you who don’t know about these trips – on the first Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of each month we take some of our boats from Portland Basin, Ashton-under-Lyne for about one hour into Fairfield where we collect donations from the houses around. The previous week leaflets are
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