Diary

Boat Museum Society meetings 2010

All meetings held in the Rolt Centre, National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port at 7.30pm

Friday 19th March
Dave Moore from the Canal Card Collectors Circle will give an illustrated talk - Waterways in the Post. Bring along any Wateways related postcards that you have!

Friday 2nd April Good Friday 
Norman Stainthorp: Ellesmere Port Docks - A Personal History.

Friday 21st May 
Members’ and Friends’ evening. A selection of short illustrated talks, films and discussions.
Now is your chance to share your pictures etc.
Contact Cath Turpin if you have any contributions (March or early May the best time).
Or just bring them along on the night.

Saturday 22nd May 
Outing to somewhere interesting! To be arranged.

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Events at National Waterways Museum,
Ellesmere Port

March
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th

March - April
Saturday 27th to Sunday 11th

Easter School Holidays - Choco-mania
Normal admission prices
Activities £1 per child
Follow Chocolate Charlie’s trail around the Museum
Make‘n’Take chocolate fun & Easter crafts

April
Friday 2nd to Monday 5th

Traditional Easter Boat Gathering     
Normal admission prices       
Gathering of historical & modern canal boats
Boatman’s games, traditional crafts,  live entertainment
Boat-horse harnessing demonstration (Sat)
                                   Make’n’Take activities

Outdoor Adventure Week
Try canoeing and climbing / abseiling
£35.00 per person, spectators £3.00
Start 10.00am
To book - call 0151 355 5017

May
Sunday 23rd

Horses at Work
Normal admission prices
A celebration of working horses on the canals
(includes Gifford - horse drawn boat demonstration)

May - June

Spring School Holidays - Barmy Boats
Normal admission prices
Activities £1 per child
Make’n’Take,  Family Boat Trails

September

Gordale Run - Vintage Cars 9.30-11.30am
Normal admission prices

December

For more information about NWM, Ellesmere Port events contact here

Please be advised these events are subject to change.
For up to date information, telephone the Museum on 0151 355 5017 or log onto our website

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Ellesmere Port Local and Family History Society

If you are interested in local and/or family history, come and join this new Society.   We plan to hold monthly meetings throughout the year on Tuesday evenings at The National Waterways Museum (formerly known as The Boat Museum) here in Ellesmere Port – access off Junction 9 of the M53 motorway. 

Unless otherwise stated, all meetings to commence at 7:30 p.m. in the Rolt Conference Centre – entrance to the site via gate by canal. 

2010 Meetings

16 February
Cath Turpin, another regular researcher in the Archives and a well-known local speaker, will tell us about the family history of boating families.  Much of her research is relevant to all budding family historians whether or not they had a connection with the inland waterways or not, so this is an excellent introductory talk to the subject.

16 March
A talk by Linda Clarke, Local Studies Librarian, on the facilities available locally to family historians and local historians and how these can be accessed.  You will be amazed what can be accessed for free!
The meeting will also include the society’s first AGM with initial reports on the society and the election of officers and committee.

Speakers will be invited to subsequent meetings dependent on people’s interest, however it is intended to have a mix of both family and local history subjects. 
The cost of joining the society is £10 per annum or £3 per meeting (full membership given if four consecutive meetings attended). 

New members are welcome and for more information, contact Celia Webber ( via Museum)
tel: 0151 355 5017.
The National Waterways Museum,
South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, CH65 4FL

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Chester Canal Heritage Trust meetings

All meetings are at 8pm in the Mill Hotel, Milton St, Chester : admission £1.50 for non-members - all welcome.
More information

IWA - Chester and District Branch meetings

All meetings in the Rolt Centre, National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port at 7.45pm

2009-2010 Programme details here

Branch Waterway Walks take place on 4th Thursday of each month commencing at 10.15 am and are open to IWA members and non-members alike.  Each walk starts and finishes at a pub.  Anyone requiring lunch at the pub at the end of the walk can book his or her meal just before we set out on the walk.

28th January - Barnton
From the Beech Tree Inn on the A533 Runcorn-Northwich road (CW8 4HS), this 4 mile walk heads north then east through open farmland and Little Leigh with distant views to the west before reaching the Trent and Mersey Canal.   Having passed over Barnton Tunnel, the route follows a path to the left for the return to the Beech Tree.  OS Explorer 267.  Map reference 630 754

25th February – Moore
The Red Lion, Runcorn Road, Moore (WA4 6UD) is the meeting place for this walk of about 4.5 miles that takes in parts of the Manchester Ship Canal, the disused Runcorn and Latchford Canal and the Moore Nature Reserve.  Most of the route is on the level.  OS Explorer 276.  Map reference 576 842.

25th March – Bunbury
From the Dysart Arms in the centre of Bunbury (CW6 9PH) this walk of under 3 miles passes by Bunbury Mill and through Woodworth Green to the towing path of the Shropshire Union Canal and the Bunbury and Tilstone locks.  OS Landranger 117.  Map reference 567 582.

22nd April – Marston
The Salt Barge, Marston, Northwich CW9 6ES.  Changes in the seasons permitting, this walk will take us through the bluebells in bloom of the woods in Marbury Country Park, along the edge of Budworth Mere and onto the towing path of the Trent and Mersey Canal in a walk of about 4.6 miles.  OS Explorer 267.  Map reference 672 755.

27th May - Crowton
The Hare and Hounds Crowton (CW8 2RN) is on the B5153 about 5 miles west of Northwich.  From the pub this walk of about 4.5 miles heads off to Pickering’s Cut on the River Weaver and takes in Dutton Railway Viaduct and Dutton Locks.  OS Explorer 267.  Map reference 788 851.

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