About us

This website is operated on behalf of The Inland Waterways Association (Stoke-on-Trent Branch) and Trent & Mersey Canal Society.

 

The Inland Waterways Association (Stoke-on-Trent Branch)

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The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) is a registered charity, founded in 1946, which advocates the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and development of the inland waterways for public benefit. IWA has over 17,000 members whose interests include boating, towing path walking, industrial archaeology, nature conservation and many other activities associated with the inland waterways. The local Stoke-on-Trent Branch, which covers the Trent & Mersey Canal from Middlewich to Sandon, the Macclesfield Canal from Kidsgrove to Bosley and whole of the Caldon and Uttoxeter Canals, has over 260 local members.

 

The Trent & Mersey Canal Society

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The Trent & Mersey Canal Society (a registered charity) was founded in 1974 as a campaigning organisation to lead the fight for the possible permanent closure of the Harecastle Tunnel. That campaigning spirit continued and the Society led the successful campaign to restore the Anderton Boat Lift, to which it has donated over £11,000. The Society also instigated the imaginative Burslem Port Project to restore the Burslem Arm and return boats along an historic arm in the heart of the Potteries. Now in that same fighting spirit we are pleased to join a campaign to see as many as possible of the historic paired locks of the Cheshire flight restored and operable for the benefit of future boating generations.