The Oriel Number Thirteen
Welcome to The Oriel Number 13. I appreciate that it has been far too long since we sent out The Oriel Number 12. I hope that you can understand that, now that we have a project under way to restore a structure, and we’re attracting support from more volunteers and...
The Oriel Number Twelve
Welcome to The Oriel Number 12. The big news from Wessex Waterways is that we have made a real start on the repairs to Oriel Bridge, within Park Farm at Foxham. The OS Grid reference is ST 9781 7802, What3Words location is shunning.still.rely, and there is an...
The Oriel Number Eleven
Welcome, and apologies it’s been so long. We did plan to have the annual report ready to send in the early summer, and to do an issue of The Oriel back then. The relevant trustees whose contributions were needed were not both available at the relevant time to support...
The Oriel Number Ten
Welcome to number ten of The Oriel. It’s been a while since our last newsletter, but in the last week or so several things have happened which mean that now is a good time to be reaching for the laptop, uploading photos from the mobile phone, and producing this...
The Oriel Number Nine
Welcome to number nine of The Oriel. There’s lots to report about, some positive, some less positive, and some ‘the same old’. A Vacancy in our Plant Repair activity The Oriel number eight mentioned the space for someone to work alongside Rachael to keep our...
The Oriel Number Eight
Welcome to number eight of The Oriel. It’s been too long since the last issue of our e-newsletter for which I apologise. Things should be better from now on for various reasons.Lock chamber at Dauntsey with the completed pavingCanal channel at DauntseyPerhaps the...
The Oriel Number Seven
Welcome to number seven of The Oriel. The days are growing shorter and the Work Party Organiser now has an even longer drive to and from Wiltshire to lead the work on the canal. There is a plan to live much closer, but that has had some delays to the implementation. ...
The Oriel Number Six
Welcome to number six of The Oriel. The work programme of Wessex Waterways continues – visible work on the line of the canal, and lessvisible work preparing for the tasks we’re doing on the ground and interacting with related organisations. We also have conversations...
The Oriel Number Five
Welcome to number five of The Oriel. Wessex Waterways is continuing to deliver and do things. IWA Festival of Water Over the Bank Holiday weekend later in August the Wessex Waterways marquee and display kit were at Perdiswell Park in Worcester. This is particularly...
The Oriel Number Four
Welcome to number four of The Oriel. Matt’s work on the financial records continues in the background. He will get there, but we’ve had to reach out to a Chartered Accountant who’s a Trustee of another canal restoration project to give him the benefit of her advice on...