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May 2012 West Riding Branch

People who help run the Branch 2012 / 2013 Chairman (CM) Elaine Scott 3 Moorbank Drive Sheffield S10 5TH 0114 230 1870 07980 953880 elaine.scott@waterways.org.uk

Secretary (CM) Ian Moore 2 Eric Street, Bramley Leeds LS13 1ET 07989 112581 westriding@waterways.org.uk

Treasurer (CM) William Jowitt 35, Lowfield Crescent Silsden BD20 0QE 01535 657256

Membership Secretary (CM) Chris Pinder 152 High Street Yeadon Leeds LS19 7AB 01132 509371

NE&Yorks Region (CM) Peter Scott 3 Moorbank Drive Sheffield S10 5TH 0114 230 1870 peter.scott@waterways.org.uk

Minutes Secretary (CM) Liz Pinder 152 High Street Yeadon Leeds LS19 7AB 01132 509371

Committee Member Mike Tucknott 4 Royds Avenue Birkenshaw Bradford BD11 2LD 07885 951099

Speaker Finders Katie & Alastair Sayles 32 Pymont Drive, Woodlesford, Leeds LS26 8WA. 0113 393 4517 kandal@btinternet.com

Telephone Contact Alastair Furniss 0113 253 9401

Badge, Stamps & Raffle Ellen & Ailsa Sayles

The views expressed in this publication are published as being of interest to our members and readers and are not necessarily those of The Inland Waterways Association or of its West Riding Branch.

The Inland Waterways Association Registered in England no 612245 Registered as a Charity No 212342 Registered Office: Island House, Moor Road, Chesham, HP5 1WA Tel: 01494 783453 http://www.waterways.org.uk The Inland Waterways Association campaigns for the Conservation, Use, Maintenance, Restoration and Development of the Inland Waterways, which are part of our heritage, and are there for the benefit of everyone.

Front cover picture: Members having a good time at Skipton Water Festival May 2012 More pictures at http://tinyurl.com/pjs-pho19 2

Chairman’s thoughts Do you usually receive an email from me about the next West Riding meeting? If you do, you'll receive one or two more before the September meeting with news and activities during the Summer. And if not, it means that the IWA does not have an up-todate email address for you, and if you would like to have Branch information via email, please send me your email address; this all helps to speed up communications and keep down the costs. Even if you don’t attend our meetings, we hope you might find the monthly notes are worth reading. They include pointers to items of local interest including some of our Region Chairman’s articles, thoughts and photographs. You can also register on the IWA website to receive the regular Head Office Bulletins, which have the fortnightly summaries of all our activities nationally, to fill in the details between issues of Waterways .

Of course we will still be sending Waterways, MilePost and some other items on real paper in real envelopes to those who would like them this way: the recent rise in postage means the more we use the postal service, the less our subscriptions can be used directly on the Waterways, so we can’t justify writing to everyone in the Branch more than is necessary.

Many thanks again to those who are reading this newsletter online. There will be some spare copies of the paper version available at the next meeting, and if you would like one – particularly to pass on to friends who support the waterways – please join us in Mirfield and collect one from there. We would very much like to see you. Particularly if you are attending your first meeting please make a point of introducing yourself to me or one of the committee. I do try to speak with everyone, but don’t always succeed.

An invitiation I know the meeting dates and our location do not suit everyone – that would be impossible - but I would like to meet more of you in person. Maybe we can arrange to meet for a drink sometime: if you have a favourite pub or coffeeshop or similar and would like to meet the Branch and Region Chairmen (we usually come as a pair) let me know and we will try to arrange something; anywhere within the Branch area would be fine..

Have a good summer.

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Something Must Be Done ‌ ‌ This Is Something ‌ We Must Do It. That's the flawed logic that leads us to do something when doing nothing might be better. Maybe that something is debatably better, and since the last MilePost a number have arisen on which members' thoughts would be valuable. In all the situations, put yourself into the position of the personwho-decides; the manager-in-charge ,and decide on a score-out-of-ten on how likely it is you would take the action(s) mentioned.

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Lock-Tail Bridges A number of these original footbriges survive, and are only found on this canal. In June 2011 a cyclist used the one across the narrow locks in Stourport Basin, fell into the canal and died. The inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death and the coroner speculated whether the cycle's pedal had caught in one of the decorative parapets. BW have discussed with the Heath and Safety Executive and have decided to do something. The range of the options seems to be (and the challenge is to rate each one) 1) Accept the risk: there is no reason for visitors, those without boats, to use the bridge: there are safe alternatives within sight, and the risk, as with the lock side nearby is clear to everyone.

2) Put up warning notices: Warn the public of the dangers for themselves and for children, specifically ban cyclists, skateboarders and those using mobile phones or carrying large boxes.

3) Attach a handrail to the bridge.

4) Remove the bridge to a waterways museum I put the choice as neutrally as I could to our AGM, and then I described the choice that BW actually made: to attach a handrail at all the similar bridges, and also to review all the lock crossings on both the Staffs&Worcs and the 4

Trent &Mersey Canals for those with an unprotected or low parapet crossing across a lock. The total S&W cost was thirty-two thousand pounds, and the design chosen for these historic bridges was to have a rail on one side, supported on a beam beteween the lock sides and below the underside of the original bridge, and without any fixing to the bridge itself. This created a hazard for boat steerers who had to duck below the new structure, and there was sufficient outcry that BW agreed to remove the new beam and redesign it at a higher level; the extra costs of this are not known.

For other sheer drops across locks, some are the edge of brick bridges of no particular heritage interest, but have been temporarily scaffolded pending further permissions to make permanent changes. The adjacent lock sides, at right-angles to the new proposed structures remain as they were.

Canal and River Trust North-East Partnership Would I like to join them for an interview on ‌ ? Well, yes I would: but mainly because I vounteered my time to join the Partnership, and being interviewed is the way that this new group was to be selcted: it was a panel of three around an oval table, of which the candidate had an apex: it's not very different from the straight-line-approach but slightly more challenging for the short-sighted.

I have been interviewed many times during forty years of being a student and being employed-for-a-living; about three evening-and-next-day 'assessment centre's, followed by an interview; telephone screening then a longer process, lots of rejections without any further communication; once an interview with one person and an assessor behind me to evaluate my posterior (they didn't say why he was there so maybe it was for something else), and on another occasion a committee of fifteen. There are many more occasions sitting on the 'selecting' side of the table, but this is only the second time interviewed as a volunteer.

There is an army of researchers with an opinion – 'human resources management' is big business – and it's often quoted that a selection-board will make its decision within the first seven seconds, and the rest of the halfhour is just validating that initial decision. I felt on good form this time, and it 5

would be fun to think this critique comes from a succesful seven-seconds: the results will be published soon.

For any volunteering job, there is the essential difference that the volunteer can walk away without endangering their lifestyle or their mortgage: it's much more of a two-way selection process. In this case they were selecting a team of people to work together to give advice, and by the chosen process, a team that had never met one another.

5) Assess: BW/C&RT select candidates for voluntary jobs with a traditional employment interview-panel-of-three On the basis that it's a two-way selection, I had an interview question for each of my inquisitors – and it was the constraint of the format and the available time that stopped me asking them. Maybe they will send me an email with considered replies.

Voluntary money-gifts to Canal and River Trust The first question to the Minister at the Lords' Scrutiny Committee on the BW Transfer Order under the Public Bodies Act, was from Lord Scott (unrelated!) who asked why all the changes in culture and fundraising, claimed as compelling arguments for C&RT, couldn't be achieved within the current arrangements. The Minister floundered for a while, didn't answer the question and they moved on. My formulation is more focussed: BW set up The Waterways Trust a dozen years ago as the voluntary arm of the waterways, to collect contributions from supporters, and in broad terms, it didn't work. Why is C&RT so (even guardedly) enthusiastic about its supporter-income-projection when it has this experience to inform it?

6) Assess: C&RT rely on towpath-chuggers for £2m/yr Risk Assessment It was an excellent idea to have a BW management meeting on a not-usedthat-day public tripboat. The published picture had all the participants wearing waistcoat-lifejackets, and even though some were not worn for all the meeting inside the boat, those going outside, “within three feet of water” said that their internal rules required them to put them on again. BW assesses the risk to its volunteers (and its employees) as greater than its visitors do for themselves, and is making decisions that everyone could make for themselves according to the job they are doing and the prevailing conditions.

7) Assess the above policy.

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The Canal and River Trust Council That's the one to which I didn't get elected by Boat License holders; overall IWA, particularly from the Midlands scored wonderfully well, securing three, (and almost four) of the four seats. The Council's main, and maybe the only, constitutional duty is to select and if it chooses, to dismiss the Trustees. The Transition Trustees were selected, indirectly by the (government-selected) appointments' committee. As well as these, the Council was asked to nodthrough three additional trustees at its first meeting: I cannot find any scrutiny from the Council of these appointments – and there may well be no more appointments to make until three years have passed.

8) Assess: C&RT Council positively scrutines Trustee appointments.

We would be pleased to receive members' thoughts on any or all of the above issues.

Peter Scott NE&Yorkshire Regional Chairman peter.scott@waterways.org.uk 3 Moorbank Drive Sheffield S10 5TH

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Short breaks also available.

NB Joshua - day boat hire – 35ft ft day hire narrow boat which takes up to 10 people for self drive day trips. £80 to £100 weekdays, £100 to £120 weekends/bank hols.

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Just in case you missed it - a summary of our meetings January

Ken Nelson World of Knots Our advertised speaker was unable to come so at short notice Ken Nelson came to give us his talk on knots that he was going to do in February. As usual, Ken kept us entertained with a series of useful knots and stories about thier use.

February Mike Silk The Barnsley, Dearne and Dove Canal Society Our speaker for the February Branch meeting was Mike Silk, Engineering Director of the Barnsley, Dearne& Dove Canals Trust.

Mike first showed us some photographs of the route, contrasting historic views of the two canals when they were working, or in the early years following closure, with similar views today.

He then moved on to the Feasibility Study which was commissioned by the Trust in 2006. An early success for the project was the restoration of Elsecar Basin, carried out by volunteers, including WRG. The Trust’s focus has now moved to protecting the line of the canals, including the proposed diversions, as part of the local planning process.

March

Peter Toon, General Manager Mikron Theatre Transitions: from Arts-Council-funded to a selfsupporting group of sponsors: from a borrowed boat to Tyseley to a tour-with-boat and a tour-with-van: from actor to Mikron-administrator to talk-giver (Peter T): from canal-shows to beer-shows to an allotment-show: from Mike-and-Sarah to Mike to Mike-protégés: from shoestring to shoestring to … some things don't change: the mission to bring authentic theatre-withoutthe-fuss to non-traditional venues; to do it for audiences big and small; to encourage them to want to pay a going-rate for their evening's entertainmet.

And there's always one of those CDs/pens/teeshirts to remember them by.

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April

AGM

“The Man at the Back”, A Light-hearted View of the AGM As ever this years AGM was the spectacular event it was always billed to be.

We had speakers, food, raffles, comedy and lots of chances for chatting.

Elaine got the evening off to a good start stating that she wanted to keep the meeting short and to the point. This she did to the extent that Liz, as Minute Taker, hardly had time to get her pencil out before Elaine had moved on to the next Item (the Agenda is available in Milepost). We then had reports from our reliable as ever Secretary and Treasurer followed by a very interesting and engaging talk by Jon Horsfall from British Waterways talking about the new Canal and River Trust. As users we are having to get used to the new arrangements but as those having to manage the change. I certainly had the impression that their learning curve was by necessity much steeper.

But he managed to keep smiling and conveyed the new organisation and its role in a very positive light.

Then, for two small girls particularly, the highlight of the evening – Food. A good spread was assembled and this allowed a lot of “networking” to take place followed by the raffle. I understand that after the break Peter did a ief presentation and the meeting finished very early……or maybe this was a dream as I had left by then.

Well done to the Committee for another memorable evening.

In order to whet your appetite for the next AGM in 2013 here is a little wordsearch.

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FOOD ALERT KNOT PIN DEBATED CANAL

IWA WEST RIDING BRANCH Minutes of the 2012 AGM held on Friday 13th April at South Pennine Boat Club.

Present 27 adults, 2 children.

1. APOLOGIES: Ann and Tony Martin, Peggy and Alastair Furniss, Rob and Trish Laing.

2. MINUTES OF THE 2011 AGM held on Friday 11th March at Centenary House, Leeds, as published in June 2011 Mile Post are accepted as a true and correct record of the meeting.

Proposed by Liz Pinder Seconded by Mike Tucknott 3. MATTERS ARISING: None 4. BRANCH CHAIRMAN’S REPORT Committee members: Chairman: Secretary: Treasurer: Membership: Minutes: Members: Assisted by:

Meeting co-ordinators: Badges, stamps and raffles: Telephone Contact:

Elaine Scott Ian Moore William Jowitt Chris Pinder Liz Pinder Peter Scott Mike Tucknott Alistair and Katie Sayles Ellen and Ailsa Sayles Alastair Furniss

Elaine thanked Rob and Trish Laing for the time they served on the committee.

Elaine reported on Branch activities: Various meetings attended by committee members (eg BW user groups), planning applications dealt with and letters of support written.

Following the resignation of Bob and Trish Laing as Mile Post editors Elaine Scott has taken over the editing with Peter Scott as an assistant. ( Last date for items for next publication 20th May 2012) New meeting venue (South Pennine Boat Club) has been a very positive move.

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What the branch has planned: Attendance at the Skipton Waterway Festival, Thwaites Mill Boat Gathering and Barnsley, Dearne and Dove Walk.

5. TREASURER’S REPORT Accounts are kept by IWA Head Office, therefore we do not need a resolution to accept the accounts.

The treasurer presented the accounts to the floor.

Magazine costs and capitation payments are similar.

If more people received the magazine via web site / e mail it would reduce costs.

No National Festival this year so no income from that source.

Meeting costs are reduced with new venue.

Donations will be made subject to the availability of funds.

6. ELECTION OF COMMITTEE Proposed that the following be appointed until 2015 AGM. William Jowitt, Chris Pinder, Elaine Scott and Mike Tucknott.

Unanimously elected.

7. REGION CHAIRMAN’S REPORT Peter Scott has Chairman’s blog and twitter feed.

Peter reported on: In the region: • North Riding first year.

• Region AGM no longer needed.

• Region funds to go to Branches.

• Pocklington Canal and Barnsley, Dearne and Dove.

New Waterways Charity: • What did IWA want. What did IWA get.

• Explained proposed Governance Structure • Canal and River Trust NE Partnership applications close on 20th April.

Waterways Conference Workshop.

Between the Branch Chairman and Region Chairman’s reports, Jon Horsfall from British Waterways gave an enthusiastic talk about the Canal and River Trust. He is optamistic that the new Trust will work The accompanying presentations are available via the Branch web page.

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Branch Accounts Balance at 31st December

£1,637.22

£1787.93

Income and Expenditure Account

Capitation Donations Social meetings & working parties Events and fundraising activities Magazine Trading Lotteries & raffles Bank interest & charges Officers' expenses Other TOTAL Surplus/(deficit) for the year

2011 Income Expenditure 846.80 0.00 242.00 510.00

2010 Income Expenditure 1013.24 0.00 238.95 265.00

0.00

245.00

0.00

335.04

0.00 0.00 357.56

45.00 909.58 137.14

0.00 0.00 208.00

317.30 1164.43 71.25

210.10

0.00

77.50

0.00

19.55

0.00

25.54

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0.00 20.00 1,696.01

0.00 0.00 1,846.72

21.95 0.00 1,563.23

0.00 0.00 2,174.94

-150.71

-611.74

Notes Capitation – the monies we receive from IWA to fund the magazine.

Donations Expenditure- main donations to, Skipton Waterway Festival, The new North Yorks IWA Branch, Inglesham Lock AppealFundraising – income is booked to trading.

William Jowitt Treasurer

Bring Back a Tea towel At Skipton we sold out of all the waterways reated items that had been donated, the tea towels went very quickly. So here is your chance to help raise money for the IWA. Search the back of your kitchen drawers or bring back a waterways related tea towel and donate it to the Branch. All (new) tea towels gratefully received.

All donations to Elaine at the usual address or bring them yourself to Thwaite Mills.

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Embroidered Pictures for Sale

We have had three beautifuly worked, and framed embroidered pictures for sale. They will be on display at the December meeting. They would make a wonderful addition to your wall or an ideal christmas present.

Offers welcome to elaine.scott@waterways.org.uk

We will feature the others in the next edition of Milepost

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To LED or not To LED I debated whether to replace the original bulbs, festoons and tubes with the new concept of LED's.

I would just mention that my vessel is only a 32 foot GRP River Cruiser and only has one leisure battery for power as opposed to what most Narrow Boats which have several Leisure batteries to call on.

However battery capacity is limited without further charging so any form of saving power is obviously beneficial. Please read on if you want to spend money but save on power and fuel.

I had heard that there had been several problems with this type of lighting, including some difficulty in reading print as the light was too harsh and not easy on the eye, also of some inferior types over heating and not blowing the fuse due to low current and a danger of fire.

However after observing several different types and talking with a few traders I settled with Bedazzled and Richard Hall there gave me plenty of advice. Most importantly, all the LED's stocked are spike and fuse protected. They are also suppressed to prevent interference on electrical units such as TV's computer's etc. Many inferior types are not.

I have now replaced all lighting including navigation with LED's, with the exception so far of the forward floodlight with the 55 watt halogen sealed beam. Am still searching for a suitable LED type replacement.

Just as a rough comparison the old lighting system when all was switched on (not including the front floodlight) with the battery fully charged, drew 14 amps; now with all the new LED lighting total current drawn is only 4 amps.

This will go a long way when stopping those extra few days (mooring time limits permitted) when the engine is not running to charge the battery.

There now are different types of illumination that LED's can be, either Warm White or Cool White. In both saloons I fitted one of each which gives a rather pleasant and not too harsh a light during the dark hours. For the bed lights I used the Warm White which is very easy on the eye when reading.

The replacement tubes are either Warm White, Cool White or Daylight White.

I chose Warm for the cupboards and Daylight for the showers which again I think I got a good balance. My good Lady is very pleased with the Daylight type when preening in front of the toilet mirror.

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Only the tube light fitting had to be altered, the high voltage circuit has to be bypassed or removed completely. I chose to remove it as it is surplus to requirements, otherwise all the other fittings were just a straight forward replacement.

Overall I am very pleased with the replacement lighting especially with the efficiency of less battery drain, and the brighter illumination without any heat build up. Of course the slight down side is the cost but for me it has been worth it.

If any are considering going down this path be sure not to purchase the cheap and unprotected LED's which now seem to be flooding the market.

A Happy Bunny on a Boat.

Mike Tucknott

Help needed from a large car with towing facilities We have to move a 2 ton trailer from Northwich, Cheshire to Thwaite Mills, Leeds during the week 25 – 29 June. This contains the stalls and safety items for the boat gathering.

Fuel costs will be refunded.

If you could help, please contact me Elaine.scott@waterways.org.uk

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Are you free on……

Sunday 3 June At home Watch the Queen’s Diamond Jubillee Pageant and look out for nbFulbourne who should be there with Peter and Elaine Scott and nbNanshe with the IWA Chairman, Clive Henderson Detials http://www.thamesdiamondjubileepageant.org/.

Monday 11 June Barnsley The IWA West Riding Branch is joining the Barnesly , Dearne and Dove Trust for a walk in the Walton/Cold Hiendley Area - including the canal and related features Details http://www.bddct.org.uk/home.html

Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July IWA Thwaite Mills Boat Gathering 11:00 to 17:00 as part of Leeds Waterfront Festival and Dragon Boat Spectacle This is OUR local event.

Come along and help or just to vist Entry is free http://www.leedswaterfrontfestival.com/ Chesterfield 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Staveley Town Basin (S43 3XZ) Details http://tinyurl.com/pjs-chf

Saturday 7 July York York 800 Flotilla at the start of the celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of York becoming a self-governing city Details http://www.york800.com 16

The Leeds Waterfront Festival is a winner AND a runner up at the 2012 Waterways Renaissance Awards!!

At the awards night on Wednesday 23 May, George Tembo, representing Thwaite Mills Watermill, and Rachel Kipling of British Waterways collected ‘winner’ for ‘Recreation and Tourism’ award, in addition to ‘runner-up’ for the Partnership award for the Leeds Waterfront Festival!

In total twenty-nine outstanding projects along canals and rivers in the UK were recognised at the prestigious event.

Rachel says “I would just like to say a huge thank you to you all as partners of this event for all your hard work to build and sustain the Leeds Waterfront Festival, it really is a great achievement for the group and should give us all a boost as we go forward into this year’s event!

Congratulations!

Details http://tinyurl.com/pjs-wwa

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IWA East Yorkshire Branch presents 'Losing The Plot' on Saturday September 15th at the Darby & Joan Hall, Cottingham, HU16 4AZ 7.30 start. Tickets £10 or £8 (over 60) available from roger.bromley@waterways.org.uk

www.mikron.org.uk Mikron are proud to be touring the inland waterways for 41st year of touring.

For full details of our productions for 2012, see our website or call 01484 843701 to receive the tour details.

Losing the Plot Love, Life and Allotments.

The gardeners of Thistledale Allotments are a rag-bag bunch of diggers and dreamers. Strong personalities frequently clash over the best treatment for mealy bugs, and the annual 'Heaviest and Longest' competition is always a time when old feuds and new flirtations threaten to undermine the fragile peace.

Told with a rollicking mix of old music hall tunes and brand new songs, Losing The Plot is a story of love - between people and the land; between people and people; and between people and their giant vegetables.

Can You Keep and Secret?

The rise and fall of the Yorkshire Luddites Riots in our city streets, the worst economic crisis for decades, a long war fought abroad with no sign of progress.

Sound familiar? Welcome to England 1812.

In the bicentennial year of the Luddite risings, which took place around Marsden West Yorkshire, who better to illuminate their story than fellow Marsdeners, Mikron – with their unique blend of humour, history and harmonic arrangements!

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Directions to South Pennine Boat Club – information from the web site http://www.southpennineboatclub.co.uk/

By Road: Follow the A644 from Junction 25 of the M62 towards Dewsbury and Wakefield. Just before the Pear Tree Inn, turn right over the bridge labelled Battyford Toll bridge. The SPBC is on the left, through the gates before the second Bridge Buses: The 278 from Wakefield, Dewsbury and Mirfield for Brighouse & Halifax, stops outside the Pear Tree Inn. The 278 Bus from Halifax and Brighouse for Mirfield, Dewsbury & Wakefield stops across the road from the Pear Tree Inn. Buses to Leeds & Huddersfield (203) or Bradford (253) run from Mirfield town centre.

Trains: Mirfield Station is about 1 mile from the club on the Huddersfield Line. It provides direct connections to Manchester, Huddersfield, Brighouse, Sowerby Bridge, Hebden Bridge, Leeds, Dewsbury and Wakefield.

By Water: The SPBC is on the Calder & Hebble navigation by Battyeford Lock Taxi: Station Cars Tel 01924 490 444 Mirfield Cars Tel 01924 490 999 Central Cars Tel 01924 490 000 19

Programme of Events for the remainer of 2012 All meetings take place at 8pm on the second Friday of the month at the clubhouse of the South Pennine Boat Club, Wood Lane, Mirfield WF14 0ED. Doors open 7:30 for coffee/tea/chat 2012 Friday 14th September

Pete Hugman and David Lowe Freight carrying by Inland Waterway - the Way Forward

Friday 12th October

Geoff Auty Canal science, engineering and the great egg race - part 2

Friday 9th November

Peter Hopwood and John Millett River Foss Society

Friday 14th December

Christmas Social with quiz and members’ pictures

Talks arranged by Alastair and Katy Sayles, 32 Pymont Drive, Woodlesford, Leeds LS26 8WA. Tel: 0113 393 4517 email: kandal@btinternet.com All the meetings organised by the West Riding Branch are Open and everyone is invited. We are delighted to welcome any member of the general public and members are encouraged to bring their friends. To find out more about the waterways or the IWA come and join us at one of our meetings or visit the website http://www.waterways.org.uk Closing date for articles and pictures for next edition 20 August 2012.

Tell us where you went during the summer and send us a picture or two.

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