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Boat fire safety week

This week is boat fire safety week. The boat fire safety advisor from Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service will be visiting boaters along the Kennet and Avon Canal to give free smoke detectors and fire...

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Up The Cut, at the Fringe

Up The Cut is to make an appearance at the Bath Fringe.On Saturday 8th June, comedian Matt Cranium will be joined by Fullsail Puppet Theatre, folk-rock sea shanty band Calico Jack, Arcc playing a live,...

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K&A boaters action group next meeting 10th June

The next meeting of the K&A boaters’ action group will be on Monday 10th June at 7.30pm in Bradford on Avon. Please contact info@boatingcommunity.org.uk or 07928 078208 if you want to come. Lifts...

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Flotilla at Pulteney Weir on 20th to 21st June

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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...

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BaNES 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...

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All 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...

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Amazing Spaces wants to hear from boaters

Channel 4 programme Amazing Spaces wants to hear from boaters who are doing a bit of home improvement

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Seminar 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...

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Dead 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...

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Got 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...

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All 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...

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Hold 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...

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Research 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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