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Granny Buttons
http://www.grannybuttons.com
Log of the narrowboat Granny Buttons on the English canals and observations about the UK waterways.
- Added on: Sep 29th, 2004
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Boots boots boots boots
Maffi posted last week about his boating boots, asking advice: These are the boots I bought out in Saudi to start my life aboard. They have served me well, but alas the soles are through, the welts are cracked. The repair cost is £46 I paid £35 a...
One more tour of the breach, dear friends
In Possible tours of collapsed canal, BBC Stoke & Staffordshire touts the idea of the Leek breach as a tourist destination: Volunteers at Inland Waterways [sic] said the 15m (50ft) hole in the Caldon Canal could be a good way of showing peopl...
Psst! Want to buy a narrowboat building business?
There's an unnamed narrowboat builder for sale on BizQuest - described as being somewhere in the 'East Midlands' and 'among the top names in the industry' - for £295,000. This company was established in 2002, utilizing the g...
Mission Impassable: The Highways Agency A46 threat that could ruin the Grantham Canal restoration
I've just spent a couple of hours on the Grantham Canal at Mann's Bridge, near Cotgrave. I was in the company of John Brydon, Chairman of the Grantham Canal Society and Peter Stone of the Grantham Canal Partnership. (The Partnership is...
Cool Canals goes online
When I praised Martine and Phillippa's Cool Canals book earlier this year (see 'Canals cool for cats') I thought the book would probably stop there, with maybe only annual updates. But they've been busy little cats, a...
@lesbepollit seeks help
Someone's added a comment to my post from last January called Seasonal jobs with British Waterways: i will try agane i have tried to get coneted to twiter and have faill can you tell me wy on short2030@googlemail.com les be pollit At first I th...
