The
Basingstoke Canal Boat Club Annual Christmas Meal has been booked for Friday
7th December 2007 at the Fox and Hounds commencing at 7:30 pm
Bridge Barn
Rally, Woking to be held over the Easter weekend 22nd-24th March 2008. More details
to follow.
Past Events 2006
IWA National Campaign Rally
Brookwood 2006
May 27th to 29th
Bank Holiday weekend
130 boats attended the rally
May
27th – 29th 2006
The Inland Waterways Association will hold a
National Campaign Rally at Brookwood over the weekend of May 27th to
29th, 2006. Woking Borough Council has now given their blessing to
the event, which will promote awareness of the need to safeguard and ensure the
long-term future of the Basingstoke Canal.
The venue for the rally is on the north side of
the canal between Hermitage Bridge and Brookwood Bridge, just below the
Brookwood Locks. There will be a slipway providing access for trainable boats,
and a winding hole at each end of the site.
Turnout for this event is expected to be very
high, and the organisers are recommending that early applications be made for
mooring places. Enclosed with this newsletter will be an application form, for
all those subscribers who may possibly be able to attend. It would be great to
have a good turnout from the Club, so please apply for a mooring, it promises
to be a fantastic weekend!
130 boats of all shapes and sizes from the small
18ft Wilderness boats to 70ft wide beam working boats and a steam boat attended
the rally. On Sunday evening an illuminated boat procession took place with 32
boats all decorated and festooned with an array of coloured lights. On the land
were many stalls selling canal wares and other canal societies promoting
other waterways. The rally was also a 40th
celebration of the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society whose tremendous efforts
along with many other voluntary bodies have brought the canal back to life.
They now work alongside the Basingstoke Canal Authority to maintain the canal
as an amenity for all.
Past
events 2005
The Bridge Barn Rally took place over the Easter
weekend over 30 boats attended the rally.
Some
of the gaily colored boats at Bridge Barn
The Fox and Hounds Rally
The annual event organized by the
Basingstoke Canal Boat Club took place on the August Bank holiday weekend
19 boats attended including 7 steam
boats
click on photo gallery for more
pictures
For more information contact Roger
Ilett 07748768412
Email roger.ilett@btinternet.com
Click for Campaign rally slide show