Stage career ranged from Shakespeare, Ibsen and Pinter to TV roles in Brass, EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys ...

At Cossington Lock 48, the canal bypasses ... is unique in England: the town carilloner”. The incumbent is Caroline Sharpe – who, coincidentally, lives on a historic narrowboat.

Growing numbers of people call Britain’s waterways home. In the last boater census, conducted in 2022 by the Canals and Rivers Trust (CRT), a charity, there were about 35,000 boats on canals in ...

Together the couple, who were married for more than 60 years, navigated canals on narrowboats together the ... brass' being slang in parts of northern England for the latter.

Emergency services were scrambled to the banks of a canal in the shadow of Manchester ... to have been negotiating a lock while navigating a narrowboat along the stretch of water.

The town is set on the River Severn, which meets with the historic canal basin. At first glance, the waterside looks like a ...

Canoeists can now paddle through and experience the Standedge tunnel for the first time as part of the Canal and River Trust's plans to create the UK's first coast-to-coast ... they bought a ...

West, who was born in the north England city of Bradford ... over 10 seasons of Channel 4’s “Great Canal Journeys,” when both ...

Canal towpaths, along Gas Street Basin in the ... However, a man in a flap cap was spotted standing on a narrowboat and filming was expected to continue into the night. A fleet of 1920s-style ...

Now the Glastonbarry festival has another high-flying claim to fame, thanks to the creators of the hit video game Microsoft ...

The game generates realistic terrain based on this map data. The result is an even more realistic version of several UK cities – including ... is used to this day by narrowboats.

It had been quite a long few days slogging along the Shropshire Union Canal. I enjoyed it at first ... and passed countless brightly coloured narrowboats, sitting on mirror-still water reflecting ...