Women who help-ed save canals

[Ray T]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-48937621?fbclid=IwAR3MHFnJMgWTi6kTIQYx6zs6MOjeOyKsg9px7vHglz_9Ek9oXTOyv5g2LU8

 

[cuthound]

We owe then a debt of gratitude. Without their efforts we couldnt cruise the system we have today.

[dave moore]

 I knew both Alan and Sheila well. He ran the last wet cooperage factory in Cradley Heath in the Black Country. He was a redoubtable canal enthusiast, along with wife Sheila, he went on to be an advisor on Inland Waterways to a government Quango, among many other committees with waterway and other conservational issues. I worked alongside him for many years with the now defunct Waterways Craft Guild where he steered a fledgling charity to financial stability. My abiding memory is of Alan speaking about retirement.

  “ Dave” he told me “ It’s like an empty garage in a house....it very soon gets filled up with all sorts of things “

We lost him a few years ago. Sheila is still with us, happily active as far as I know. They did a great deal to promote the restoration and conservation of the cuts. We owe them....

[max's son]

I remember Alan wearing a knitted bobble hat, knew him as mr teacosy

 

His daughter Heather (Wastie) is  behind the project as she was with The Ring writing Poems and Verse