by David Edwards-May | Jul 25, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Inland water transport, Waterway personalities
Radomir Ječinac reports from Belgrade, Serbia, on the ‘regatta’ (flotilla cruise) organised on the canals and waterways of Serbia in June/July 2012. Remember IWI’s annual World Canals Conference held in Serbia, in the beautiful city of Novi Sad on...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 13, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Waterway funding, Waterway restoration
The British Government placed 2000 miles of canals and rivers in trust for the nation, as the new charity, the Canal & River Trust, was launched on July 12. The trust takes over responsibility for the canals of England and Wales from British Waterways, 50 years...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 12, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Policy, Waterway funding
Dave Ballinger reports on the changes that are taking place on Canada’s historic canals. Parks Canada enjoyed a well deserved reputation in the world as an excellent operator, manager and guardian of Canada’s historic canals. However that is about to...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 12, 2012 | Inland water transport, New waterways, Waterway funding
The Seine-Nord canal project is now very close to being abandoned by the French Government, along with the Lyon-Turin rail link and base tunnel and about 15 other sections of the high-speed rail network, promoted in 2010 under the ‘Grenelle’ package of...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to IWI Council member Di Murrell on winning the prestigious Sophie Coe Memorial Prize for Food History, at the Oxford Symposium for Food and Cookery, on July 7. Her essay entitled ‘Food on the Move’ describes some of the ways in which the...
