Don’t shoot the Messenger!
Top-notch theatre on the waterway comes to the K&A in July and August 2012 as the wonderful Mikron Theatre Company bring two new shows to Bath, Woolhampton and Reading in their 77-year old...
View ArticleBaNES health survey research published
The Gypsy, Traveller, Boater, Showman and Roma Health Survey that many boaters took part in last year has been published. It was carried out for Bath and North East Somerset Health Authority by...
View ArticleAll welcome at Dundas Carol Service on 7th December
All boaters and other waterway users are invited to the annual Dundas Wharf Candlelight Carol Service on Saturday 7th December 2013 at 6pm. The service is hosted by Canal Ministries...
View ArticleAmazing Spaces wants to hear from boaters
Channel 4 programme Amazing Spaces wants to hear from boaters who are doing a bit of home improvement
View ArticleSeminar includes study of liveaboard boaters
The research group that carried out the boaters and travellers health survey in 2012-2013 is holding a half day seminar on March 12th that includes a study of liveaboard boaters. The Institue for...
View ArticleDead Rat Orchestra brings “The Cut” to the K&A
Innovative folk performers Dead Rat Orchestra are bringing their 2014 show “The Cut” about the songs, sounds and heritage of the canals to the K&A from 10th to 16th August. The Orchestra will visit...
View ArticleGot a wheelbarrow? Must be a continuous moorer!
According to a certain online narrowboat blog, if you have a wheelbarrow or a bicycle, you’re a continuous moorer. If you have no home mooring you are a continuous moorer. And a river being in flood is...
View ArticleAll welcome at Dundas carol service on 5th December
The boaters’ Christmas carol service will take place at Dundas Aqueduct on Saturday 5th December at 6pm. All boaters, local residents and their families are welcome. The service is hosted by Canal...
View ArticleHold Fast – it’s Christmas!
This year we bring you a Christmas treat by the K&A’s best known liveaboard boatie band Calico Jack. Wrap your eardrums round the title track of their first album Hold Fast and sing along to their...
View ArticleResearch into canal boat dwelling in London and South West England
Professor Richard Yarwood (Plymouth University) and Dr Agatha Herman (Cardiff University) are carrying out research into Canal boat dwelling: Homes, Welfare and Mobile Citizenship on Britain’s Canals....
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