Brownhills Canal Festival returns to Silver Street, with activities running from 10am to 4pm on both Saturday 15 August and Sunday 16 August. Now in its sixth year, the festival continues to grow in popularity and will feature floating traders, historic boats, private boats and land‑based stalls along the canal. The event celebrates Brownhills’ waterways, encourages local engagement, and …
We are launching a major £100,000 fundraising appeal to restore the final 230 metres of the Lichfield Canal at Gallows Reach. Completing the third and final phase of Gallows Reach will complete the missing link between the existing water-filled sections at Borrowcop Locks Canal Park and Gallows Wharf, delivering a continuous stretch of restored, watered canal through Gallows Reach. …
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The Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) has completed two highly productive weeks of summer camps at Darnford Moors Ecology Park, delivering significant progress on the Lichfield Canal restoration. Canal camps are week‑long volunteering experiences run by WRG, bringing together people from across the country to learn practical heritage construction skills while supporting canal restoration projects. Volunteers live, work, and learn …
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The restoration of the Lichfield Canal has reached an exciting milestone at Tamworth Road Narrows, part of the Gallows Reach project, where the channel is now holding water for the first time, even if only partially, thanks to the hard work of our volunteer team. Over recent weeks, volunteers have progressed the section as far as possible ahead of …
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The latest edition of Cut Both Ways, our members magazine, is now available.
Josh Newbury, MP for Cannock Chase, visited us this week for a tour of the completed canal section at Borrowcop Locks Canal Park and to see the latest progress at Tamworth Road Narrows and Gallows Reach. Although his constituency covers the Hatherton Canal, Josh was keen to visit Lichfield to understand how restoration work on the Lichfield Canal is …
