Hardy – Historic Wooden Narrowboat
Help us to restore Hardy Restoring a wooden boat is a lot of work and is very expensive! A year ago we asked local people and visitors to the canal festival whether they think it will be worth doing. We …
Author: Robin-tooley
Banbury Canal Festival 2023
Weekend 30th September to 1st October 2023 is Banbury Canal Festival held around the Oxford Canal in the town centre. Now a two day event this was previously Banbury Canal Day, originated by the Inland Waterways Association to celebrate 50 …
Theatre and Music in the Dock
For Banbury Canal Festival 2023 The Village Butty and Alarum Productions present a series of events at Tooley’s Boatyard, a 254 year-old working dry dock in Central Banbury. Incredible acoustics and an atmosphere most venues would kill for. Only open …
Age UK Boat Trip on Dancing Duck
This week Age UK Oxfordshire booked a boat trip on Dancing Duck. Members of the group met at Tooley’s Boatyard for a trip lasting around an hour. This was followed with Tea/coffee and cake at the boatyard. The sun shone …
Relocation of Boatyard visitor entrance
A new proposal was revealed at Banbury Canal Festival this month to relocate Tooley’s Boatyard visitor entrance to the north west. It would enhance the pedestrian access to Tooley’s using the side of Castle Quay alongside the canal. The proposals …
Banbury Canal Festival 2022
Weekend 1st -2nd October 2022 is the first 2 day Banbury Canal Festival held in the centre of town. Previously Banbury Canal Day, originated by the Inland Waterways Association to celebrate 50 years of the IWA in 1996, became an …
The Curse of Captain Crow
Friday and Saturday 5th & 6th August you can experience the twists and tales of the high seas at Tooley’s Boatyard as The Cherwell Theatre Company takeover the dry dock for an atmospheric production of The Mutineers: The Curse of …
Narrowboat Hesperus
Last week a wooden boat was moved into the dry dock at Tooley’s Boatyard. This is the narrowboat Hesperus. Built in 1935 by Walkers of Rickmansworth at Frogmoor Wharf on the Grand Union Canal. It was commissioned in 1936 as a …
October at Tooley’s Boatyard
The end of October will mark the last ‘Saturday Open Museum’ of the season – last chance to take a 40 minute boat trip on Dancing Duck from Tooley’s Boatyard before the winter. On October 30th only you can take …
More Book Reading Boat Trips
Following the huge success of the sold out ‘kids on the canal’ event last week, Tooley’s is bringing two more ‘stories from the Great British Waterways’ events to Banbury, aboard its own narrowboat, ‘The Dancing Duck’. Families have another chance …