The Queen’s Birthday Honours ROGER SQUIRES BEM
JOHN BAYLIS BEM John Baylis has led campaigning work for IWA for over 30 years, and has been instrumental in all the major waterway development and restoration projects in the East Midlands since the early 1970s, including the Erewash Canal, Derby Canal, Grantham Canal, Sleaford Navigation and many others. He also led the restoration of four locks on the Montgomery Canal, negotiating and leading work parties, devising engineering solutions, inspiring volunteer support and making sure the funds were there.
Roger Squires has made a life-time commitment to promoting the importance of the UK’s historic canals and rivers, particularly the waterways of the London area. Roger is an IWA life member of over 30 years standing, and was its deputy national chairman until September 2009 and chairman of IWA’s Navigation Committee until 2010. He was a trustee of the Association and chairman of its London Region, from November 2000 to September 2009. Roger is a trustee of the London Canal Museum, a member of the London Waterways Commission and a UK Director of the American Canal Society. He has been a leading organiser of Inland Waterways International since its foundation, an organiser of the World Canals Conference (responsible for bringing it to the UK – Liverpool – in 2007), and ambassador for the UK waterways through Europe and America, all at his own expense and initiative. He was commodore of St Pancras Cruising Club for ten years.
Others honoured in the Birthday Awards include: Beryl Windsor BEM – organiser of the annual Angel Canal Festival in North London.
Beryl Windsor The Erewash Canal – one of the many waterways that have benefited from John Baylis’s work. John led IWA’s Navigation Committee for over ten years, was a deputy chairman of IWA, chairman of IWA’s East Midlands Region and a director of Waterway Recovery Group for 30 years (many of those years as its deputy chairman). He was awarded the Association’s most prestigious award, The Cyril Styring Trophy, at the 2011 AGM.
Di Skilbeck MBE – President of the Boat Museum Society at Ellesmere Port.
The London Canal Museum numbers Roger Squires among its trustees.
Di Skilbeck (right)
SIR TONY BALDRY KNIGHTHOOD
Tony Baldry (front) paddling his canoe
Tony Baldry, MP for Banbury, is co-chairman of the Parliamentary Waterways Group, a former waterways minister and long-standing IWA member. He most recently played a major role in the parliamentary hearings that led eventually to the establishment of the Canal & River Trust.
Norma Hornby MBE – Chairman, Canal Boat Adventure Project in Warrington. Shirley Beckwith OBE – chairman and co-owner of City Cruises plc, London Docklands.
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