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Hull City Council has approved plans to invest in the city's infrastructure. A five-year plan aims to improve bridges, statues, monuments and fountains. Work will include strengthening a number of ...
Boothstown Basin, Bridgewater Canal, 1991 (Picture: Newsquest) The basin, built as a coal loading area as part of the Bridgewater Canal almost 200 years earlier, was being drained and refurbished ...
As the summer months approach with long evenings and sunshine, there becomes something ever more appealing about living on a houseboat or canal barge in London, surrounded by the natural world but ...
A narrowboat that sank on a canal, blocking it for days, has been stripped of everything on board, its owner discovered. The boat was recovered earlier by a River and Canal Rescue (RCR) team who ...
Hull City Council has chosen a national partner to deliver a multi-million pound regeneration project. The East Bank Urban Village will see up to 850 new homes built along the River Hull, near the ...
Debris is shown piled up around the Tainter gate structure of the Black River Canal. After the gate was opened to help relieve floodwater pressure on Jan. 27, 2024, Port Huron officials said the ...
The Tainter gate structure was damaged last year. Repair estimates ran up to about $4.5 million. Boaters shouldn't be planning to navigate through the Black River Canal anytime soon — even when ...
The River Kennet flows into the Thames. It is connected by canal to the River Avon and provides another cross-country waterway, this time from Bristol to London. Kennet was in fact built in 1947 to ...
The Royal Iris was a fixture on the River Mersey for more than 40 years.Built for £256,000 at Dumbarton on the Clyde in 1950, it came to Merseyside the following year and went on to inspire Gerry ...
The river banks were always a hive of activity all year round. When the Worcester to Birmingham Canal opened in 1815 the traffic on the Severn increased further and complaints were common place.