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News of Tooley’ Boatyard

  • Banbury Canal CIC – Your Memories

    Banbury Canal CIC logo

    Banbury Canal Community Interest Company (CIC) has received funding from the National Lottery Community Fund. We are delighted to receive this grant towards the Your Memories project. The aim is to capture stories from people…

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  • New Sculpture of Lock 29

    Sculpture

    Banbury Lock was bombed on 7th September 1940. As the canal was considered to be essential for the war effort, repair and rebuilding was carried out quickly. A stone built into the side of the…

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  • Banbury Canal CIC Launched

    Banbury Canal CIC Launched

    Banbury Canal CIC (Community Interest Company) was formed in March 2020 to carry out a project to record and celebrate canal heritage in Banbury. Working from Tooley’s Boatyard, Banbury Canal CIC submitted an application to…

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  • Britain by Barge Then and Now

    Barging Britain

    In October 2019 Channel 5 Television came to Tooley’s Boatyard to film an episode of “Britain by Barge Then and Now“. The series featured Jenny Bond, Anne Diamond, Pete Waterman and Bill Oddie. Touring the…

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  • Tooley’s at Whately Hall Hotel

    Tooley's Trustees at Whately Hall

    In the picture:Tooley’s Trustees (from left to right) Nick Poole, Richard Stevens, Sarah Jackson (Tooley’s Co-Ordinator), Matt Armitage (Director of Tooley’s), Dan Clacher, John Madden, John Spratt and Jamie Simmons (Tooley’s Blacksmith) (courtesy Rosy Burke)…

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  • Banbury ’96

    Canal Weekend 96

    Banbury Canal Weekend 1996 After a canal day (a one-day event) in 1995, the next event in 1996 was a Canal Weekend. The same Inland Waterways Association Committee met at The Mill. In the picture…

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