Put the date in your diary.........8th-10th June
Plans are well underway for another family fun weekend celebrating our canal heritage with more activities than ever. To find out more visit our Gala 2012 page where you can download posters and booking forms.
If you can help on the day, even just for a few hours, please contact our Gala Team who will be delighted to hear from you. We could do with help on the Tombola, car parks, children's activities, with catering, manning an information point and building a stage set for example.
The pirates will be paying us a visit this year and there will be craft demonstrations, live music, food, traders, boats, theatre, stalls and lots more.
The Mikron Theatre Company will also be at Stoke Bruerne on Thursday 7th June...so why not make a long weekend of it?
Sculptor (pictured above left being towed by Southern Cross at Whilton Locks on the 14th April) is back outside the Canal Museum after re-bottoming work. Rex Wain was the boat builder, a team of volunteers from FOCM, led by Lorna and Laura, did much of the preparation work; apprentices from the Heritage Dockyard, Ellesmere Port did much of the rebottoming and the rest was done by Brinklow Boat Services; steelwork and remedial work to the stern gear was carried out by Steve Priest Boatbuilding; considerable input also came from Andrew Cox; the engine was taken by boat to Ellesmere Port for reconditioning by the late Tony Burnip, reconditioning was carried out by volunteers at the Heritage Dockyard and Mike Turpin of the Boat Museum Society arranged for its return to Brinklow; towage from Brinklow to Stoke was done by Ryan Dimmock with Southern Cross, assisted by Richard Cox, Andrew's elder brother.
Friends Chairman David Blagrove said: "Altogether a splendid team effort, and particularly pleasing that FOCM was able to have the co-operation of our fellow organisation, The Boat Museum Society". More volunteer work (and funding!) is needed before she will be back in action. More in the May edition of Museum Matters.
Museo della Navigazione Fluviale
The Friends of The Canal Museum are a registered charity originally set up in 2006 to support the work of The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne through volunteer effort and fundraising....find out more ABOUT US
Lord Boswell
Chairman:
David Blagrove
Vice-Chairman:
Lorna York
Registered Charity No:
1121146
If you would like to join the Friends please see our Membership page, or if you would like to contact us please write to:
The Friends of The Canal Museum, c/o The Canal Museum, Stoke Bruerne, Towcester NN12 7SE
or, e-mail us here
For more information and report about the 2011 Village at War Weekend
The Friends organise monthly talks meetings in conjunction with the Inland Waterways Association in the winter and up to three major events during the year...for full details of up coming events at the museum please see the Diary & Talks page
Our Canal Museum has twinned with the Museo della Navigazione Fluviale in Battiglia Terme, Northern Italy, not far from Venice!
The Battaglia canal, dug by the Paduans in the 13th century, was used to transport stone and other goods to Venice and Battiglia Terme has been for centuries the nodal point of a vast network of traffic and commerce and an important river port.
You can read more about the Canals of Northern Italy and how the Museum came into being in the latest issue of Museum Matters. You can also check out their website at www.museonavigazione.eu . There is a version in English.
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