Martin Ludgate
have one with it, whether hired in or not. It’s not our job to sort Important: Inglesham update out the maintenance of every site we come to. If you need one In our Cotswold Feature last time we promthen the site should have one, ised you an update on what was happening not the kit. at Inglesham Lock, the project at the east end of Colin: Aha – fair enough, but it the Cotswold Canals which was to be restored would probably be a good idea thanks to the IWA Tom Rolt Appeal but which had to put a reminder about that in hit delays in gettin the necessary permissions. Navvies. It now looks like we will be running a few And it came to pass. weeks of work to sort out the stop-planks/chamber It’s that time of year – a waterproofing, investigation, lower wing wall renew season of Camps means it’s pairs etc. starting September-ish. These will not be time to talk about the new items advertised as “normal” Canal Camps in our camps in the kit you will encounter this booklet but we will be advertising them as soon as summer. See the opposite page we can in Navvies and on all the other outlets infor a list of the changes for the cluding WRG website and Facebook group. An opportunity for those who love the wet plop! camp kits. And finally we have modiRegister your interest via Jenny at head office. fied the Canal Camps Safety Talk in a small but crucial way – more details thirst after righteousness. (Possibly the worst elsewhere in Navvies [See page 7 ...Ed] but pun I have ever made in Navvies) suffice to say that sorry – you will all have to As I sign off I am sitting in a pub garlisten to the new Safety Talk this summer, no den with glorious sunshine and the boats matter how much of an “old hand” you are. passing by. Pretty much all our camps are We have also decided on the vehicle full, the work is sorted and I hope you are circuits for the summer and as usual these looking forward to this summer as much as I will be printed up and installed on the back am. bulkhead of each van so you know where See you on site! things are going after your camp. Martin Mike Palmer have you got them – can we put them in navvies? As an aside I was rather surprised to read in my local paper that there was a bloke who collected bricks and had over 30,000 types of brick. That’s not surprising (seems perfectly logical to me), what was shocking was his suggestion that he had a very rare brick that was supposed to say Accrington Iron but actually said Accrington Nori and that make it very rare and valuable. If that is the case than those locks at Aston we built must be worth a fortune! Finally, something a little “off the wall”. My local church is hosting a water-based church service as part of its village festival this year. On the evening of Friday 21 June at Lowsonford Village Hall there will be a celebration of water. Anyone who is passing, be it by boat, towpath or water-ski is welcome to stop by and have a ponder about why we do this navvying thing. The village hall has a long and honourable history with regard to waterway restoration and has had navvies sleeping on its floor both in the last century and this. It’s also just a hundred yards from “a reason everything we restore is a particular shape” the Fleur de Lys pub for those who have a
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