Author: Robin-tooley

Our Easter Boat Trips have now ended but trips will continue each Saturday from 7th May right through the Summer until Canal Weekend on 1-2 October 2022. Please see our Dancing Duck page.

We would like to wish everyone a happy festive season. We will be closed from 1pm on Wednesday 22nd December and will reopen at 10am on Tuesday 4th January. Normal opening hours are 10am – 1pm Tuesday to Saturday inclusive.

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Oxfordshire families with young children can experience exclusive boat trips in Banbury with charming stories from the Great British Waterways on Saturday, September 4th, 2021. ‘Kids on the Canal’ is a new event with ‘Muddy Waters’ author Dan Clacher. For …

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Work started this month on preparing the floating hulk which is moored outside Tooley’s ready for when it goes into the dry dock for a makeover. Narrowboat Kilsby will be converted into a theatre boat at Tooley’s Boatyard. Kilsby was …

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Waterways Heritage Report was recently published by Inland Waterways Association (IWA). The report which includes some excellent photographs is part of a campaign to preserve the heritage of our waterways including buildings, engineering structures, working mechanisms, artefacts, boats, people, skills …

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The forge and forge building at Tooley’s Boatyard was recently refurbished. Date Posted: The building work by local firm P.R.Alcock & Sons was carried out using materials and techniques appropriate to the historical building. Additional metalwork items were made in …

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