Re Grand Union Canal Carrying Co 142 Touring the BCN Tim Lewis and his pictures of the GUCCC Boat passing along the BCN, its mainlines and bye ways, show a...
... Well done Tim. Bradley Arm looked interesting! Thank you for participating in the Challenge, I'm sorry that your difficulties prevented you from reaching...
Great photos, I would love to take part in the challenge. And as I think about it I remember that I have a 3 month sabbatical next year so could get the...
... about it I remember ... ('m a Vicar you ... boat but would ... Just remember friends & colleagues when you need some crew.... ... aka Norman the Narrowboat...
Hugh Mc Knight has compiled an article using photographs from a pair of albums in his possession that had been compiled by H.R Hodgkinson. These concern a...
Mr Hodgkinson was a friend of mine living in St Georges Square Worcester. He lent his albums to the IWA head office and was very upset when they were stolen,...
As many of you know the BCN Society, specifically Roy Kenn and Graham Whorton, organised a BCN weekend Challenge at the end of May. It was a great success, to...
Thank you Max, I have looked at Henry's piece in the Birmingham Archeological Society on Midland Canals (December 1913) and no doubt many photos that were...
Richard Hodgkinson donated the family albums to me for use by the CanalsTrust, when he asked IWA for them back he found they had been stolen.Hugh Mcknight was...
Max, If you are able can you email me on heartland@.... I am interested to talk about the developments at Droitwich and am keen for some piece for my...
Can anyone tell me what the green ribbon of land is, in this view: <http://bit.ly/qoA2e> Might it have once been an arm of the canal? -- Andy Mabbett Says...
The quality of the photographs published in Canal Boat that have been now linked to Henry Hodgkinson deserves some further brief comment about the man. Henry...
I believe the Birmingham Rowing Club trained here surprisingly. Max Sinclair ... From: Laurence <lhpvideo@...> Subject: [CanalScapeBCN] Re: Green land...
See the heading picture, 109 Barnet out for a press photo. The boat that will in due course carry the CanalScape-BCN name is almost ready to return to waterway...
PLEASE COPY OUT TO ANY OTHER GROUPS AND SITES: FROM BOB WILLIAMS: Sadly, I have to report that our JCB 804 has been stolen from the Tamworth Road site. The...
Hugh McKnight has asked me to forward the following message to this forum: ³H.R.Hodgkinson Photographs ³I am most grateful to Ray Shill for his comments and...
Martin Ludgate has passed on Hugh McKnights comments and explanations as to how the two albums came into his possession. I suppose it will be left to members...
I felt it important to also look up facts concerning Henry's father, Walter Leveridge Hodgkinson who married in 1869. Henry was the eldest child ( or perhaps...
The recent correspondence regarding Henry Hodgkinson deserves a postcript regarding the origin of the photographs in the Albums. At the end of the published...
The West Midlands Group has published on the RCHS Website www.rchs.org.uk on the West Midlands Group Reports page details of our visit to Bittell on June...
Every time I pass the Horseleyfields dock at Wolverhampton I look across the line of buildings, now business units, but once part of the carriers wharf and...
... The sad truth about this building and site is that Wolverhampton council own it and are doing nothing to protect or promote use there. The person to...
Meteor has been found. It is at Common Barn Farm, Packington near Tamworth. Butters John Bee are handling the sale for the insolvency commissioners and can be...
