As part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Discovery Weekend on October 28th and 29th, the Friends of the Cromford Canal will once again be undertaking an extensive programme of events in the Cromford area. As last year, there will be a rope maker on Cromford Wharf, who will be joined this year by Zita Speight who will be demonstrating the art of painting traditional roses and castles as seen in working narrowboat cabins as well as on many modern boats decorated in the old style.
There will be music to accompany this: Friend Peter Keating will be coming with his hand-wound street organ to bring us tunes from the past, fairground style. There will, of course, be the FCC Sales Stand in attendance, giving visitors the opportunity to get some of our new Christmas cards, as well as mugs, tea towels, logowear and books. The main activity will, as last year, be the operation of the horse-drawn boat "Duchess", which has received attention from FCC and Leawood Pump working parties to improve the state of the cabin and roof. On the Saturday, it will be used to transport a nominal one ton load of coal from Cromford Wharf to the pump: the coal will be loaded onto a horse-drawn dray and taken into Cromford, before being loaded on the boat and taken to High Peak Junction. This will be the first horse-drawn cargo to use the canal since early last century. Timings for this have yet to be confirmed. On the Sunday, the boat will operate (but without the coal) and there will be our second sponsored walk of the year, the "Ambergate Amble" from Ambergate to Cromford. On both days, there will be pictures of the Ambergate - Cromford section from our archives on display at Cromford, so walkers will be able to see what the canal was like in the past and compare it to today. I hope to see some of you there! Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk (Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
