The Waterway Recovery Group members working on clearing and rebuilding the overflow bywash round one of Tewitfield Locks

 
The Waterway Recovery Group working on clearing one of the lock bywashes


The Waterway Recovery Group members working on one of the 'hidden' bywashes by Tewitfield Locks


The Waterway Recovery Group workers replacing the stonework on one of Tewitfield Lock bywashes


British Waterways men remortaring Mattinsons Bridge (no 168) in the early 1990's.  They had to use lime mortar as any restoration has to be done 'as it was'.


The Lancaster Canal Trust Working Party building steps from the canal tow path, by Old Hall Bridge (no 167), to Westmorland Show Ground.  The trip boat 'Waterwitch' runs from here on Westmorland Show days.

When, in 2006, the IWA National Trailboat Festival was held on the Northern Reaches a slipway had to be constructed.  This shows the excavation for this slipway just near where the M6 cuts the canal at it's most northerly cutting, near Millness, between bridges 163a and 164.


Another view of the excavations for the slipway being constructed for the Trailboat Festival in 2005, looking towards bridge 164


The excavator and landing stage by the new slipway built for the trailboat festival in 2005, with the M6 motorway in the background (br 163a)


BW men standing on the slipway excavations in preparation for the National Trailboat Festival in 2005.  The M6 motorway is just visible in the background.  Bridge 163a is just to the right of this picture.


Sheet piles, landing stage and excavator - all in preparation for the slipway and boats for the IWA Nationa Trailboat Festival 0f 2005, just near Br 163a


We thought work was starting on the restoration of the Northern Reaches, but it was some dredging being done to allow a better water flow to the naviagable section of the canal.  This is between locks 2 & 3 at Tewitfield.


With the M6 on the left and lock 1 immediately in front of us, we can see the excavator dredging between locks 2 & 3.  The dredgings are being disposed of on the adjoining fields.


Dredging materials from between locks 2 & 3 are separated into soil and stones


While dredging was taking place the pounds had to be drained, though a little water was still moving through the channel.


The long arm of the excavator collects the 'spoil' and dumps it in the separator during the dredging of the pounds at Tewitfield Locks


The long arm of the excavaotr scraping up spoil which has been pushed towards it by the other machine on the canal bed between locks 2 & 3 at Tewitfield.


Dredging between locks 2 & 3 at Tewitfield in order to allow a better passage of water to the navigable section of the canal.


Scrape the canal bed with 'Hydrex', push the 'spoil' to where the long armed excavator can reach it and drop it into the separator.


A Christmas Lancaster Canal Working Party at Tewifield Lock 5 clearing some of the undergrowth which nature had provided since the Waterway Recovery Group cleared it a couple of years before.


At bottom left are preparations for 'mulled wine' on the Christmas Lancaster Canal Trust Working Party at Lock 5.


Lancaster Canal Trust Working Party on the watered 'Remainder section' of the canal near bridge 146 Burton-in -Kendal


Lancaster Canal Trust Working Party clearing a tree trunk from the waterd section of the Northern Reaches near Burton-in-Kendal.


After some 'scrub bashing' the LCT Working Party burns the tree loppings etc near Burton-in-Kendal.




The Waterway Recovery Group finding the 'spillway' round Tewitfield lock 2