by David Edwards-May | Dec 5, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Waterway personalities
The Google Streetview automatic scrambler of peoples’ faces has indiscriminately defaced the creator of the Canal du Midi on a banner outside the canal museum at Saint-Ferréol. This delightful quirk of automation of image processing suggests a new form of...
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 | Jun 24, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Waterway personalities
IWI President Dave Ballinger reports: I had the distinct pleasure to attend a commemoration ceremony in Rochester, N.Y. on Friday, June 22, 2012, where a new park building was named after our former president (and current vice-president) Tom Grasso. In her speech...
by David Edwards-May | Jun 18, 2012 | Waterway personalities
Roger Squires, a founder member of IWI, was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours, to recognise his life-time commitment to promoting the UK’s historic canals and rivers, particularly the waterways of the London area. Roger...
by David Edwards-May | Jun 6, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Waterfront regeneration, Waterway personalities
Despite the weather, the Thames Pageant on June 3rd with 1000 boats, celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, was a huge success. For the inland waterways movement, this brought unprecedented recognition, narrow boats and barges making up the seventh of...
by David Edwards-May | Apr 23, 2012 | Waterway personalities
IWI is pleased to announce the appointment of Benny Ruus and Mike Miller as full members of its Council. 58 years old, married with three children, Benny Ruus has been managing the Dalsland Canal for 20 years, and was nominated president of the Swedish and Norwegian...
