The Towpath Gathering

[Pipppa]

 

Join us to celebrate life on the water with a free open air event. Featuring floating stages and stalls with live music, poetry, arts and crafts, food and drink.

Meet other boaters in solidarity against attempts to evict us. Get legal advice. Have a picnic from the cafe boat. Sit back and listen to gypsy folk music live from the floating stage. Visit the floating museum and learn the history of life on the canals.

 

12pm on Sunday 19th April at the Canal gate entrance to Victoria park, London E3 5TB. Nearest tube Bethnal Green.

[MtB]

 

Join us to celebrate life on the water with a free open air event. Featuring floating stages and stalls with live music, poetry, arts and crafts, food and drink.

Meet other boaters in solidarity against attempts to evict us. Get legal advice. Have a picnic from the cafe boat. Sit back and listen to gypsy folk music live from the floating stage. Visit the floating museum and learn the history of life on the canals.

 

12pm on Sunday 19th April at the Canal gate entrance to Victoria park, London E3 5TB. Nearest tube Bethnal Green.

 

 

 

 

Hope it all goes well.

 

Could you expand on your comments about attempts to evict you please? Who is being evicted from where, and why?

 

There is a fair amount of expertise here on this forum!

 

 

MtB

P.S. And welcome to the forum!!!!

[alan_fincher]

Mike, this is an NBTA London event, I think.......

 

An open air meeting and celebration of the boat community. There will be music and speeches from the boater community, alongside trade boats, bunting, banners, balloons and placards...and much more.

This is during a time when the Canal & River Trust (CRT) plans to refuse full licenses to lawful boaters who “don’t move far enough”.

Along with refusing licenses, CRT plan to issue some boats with a more expensive and shorter 6-month licence, on the condition that CRT will only give full licences once the boater changes their ways.

For one reason or another many of us move around various parts of London, and that is our right. But CRT plans to set requirements that go beyond the British Waterways Act 1995. This Act clearly states how often boats should move, but does not state any minimum distance that we have to travel nor follow any specific cruising pattern beyond the stated 14 day limit.

Lets show CRT that they will not break the boat community

 

Edited April 12, 2015 by alan_fincher

[MtB]

Ah right.... Nuff said.

[jenlyn]

 

Join us to celebrate life on the water with a free open air event. Featuring floating stages and stalls with live music, poetry, arts and crafts, food and drink.

Meet other boaters in solidarity against attempts to evict us. Get legal advice. Have a picnic from the cafe boat. Sit back and listen to gypsy folk music live from the floating stage. Visit the floating museum and learn the history of life on the canals.

 

12pm on Sunday 19th April at the Canal gate entrance to Victoria park, London E3 5TB. Nearest tube Bethnal Green.

 

 

 

Sounds like a proper boaty gathering. Thank you for posting it

[David Mack]

What sort of licence do you need for a floating stage?

[jenlyn]

What sort of licence do you need for a floating stage?

Same as Alan Fincher has for sickle I suspect.

[Starcoaster]

Lol!

[cotswoldsman]

Same as Alan Fincher has for sickle I suspect.

Hehe

[Wanted]

I may well Pop down, thanks for sharing