The Nurser family and Braunston Dockyard
Graham Nurser has a fascinating website dedicated to his father, who built narrowboats at Braunston. A plaque about the Nurser family was recently unveiled at Braunston Marina. http://www.nurser.co.uk/
Author: Jeremy Cooper
Mixed trading results this year
Here, from our Secretary Robin Bishop, is a summary of income from sales and donations at this year’s events so far: The Blisworth Canal Festival was a well organised and well advertised local village event supported by everyone in the village. …
Thanks from Linslade Town Council
On behalf of the Town Council, I would like to say a really big thank you for supporting our eleventh canal festival and for helping us make it a truly successful event. Despite a rather doom and gloom weather forecast …
BCBM’s generous donation – photo
Many thanks to the BCBM for their donation of £1,000 to Friends of Raymond in return for the support we gave to their event at Braunston in March. Left to right: Brian Seymour, Diana Golder, Andrew Barton (MD of BCBM), Timothy …
Linslade Canal Festival-Saturday 27th July
Members of your party who are not really interested in canals? Then this one day event at Linslade, Bedfordshire has a lot of other stalls to offer. It’s in a lovely setting through the wooded park and along the canal …
Richard Scarff
It is with great sadness that we report the death of one of our longstanding and dedicated volunteers – Richard Scarff. Richard’s funeral will be held at Ruislip crematorium on Wednesday July 24th, at 10.15 am. We are told that …
13 & 14 July Cosgrove Canal Festival
This weekend Raymond and Nutfield will be at the Buckingham Canal Society’s event at Cosgrove. Times: Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-4pm. Join us on the hottest weekend of the year (so far)!
Four figure donation brightens the future!
The Friends of Raymond thank Peter Andrews for his very generous donation of £1,000. Peter has a long connection with Raymond and Nutfield (he wrote much of this website!) and is delighted to see the pair looking so bright; he …
The Spring 2013 Newsletter …
… is now available for all to see – go to the Newsletter page. The Summer 2013 edition will be out before long – available to members only until the Autumn edition is in preparation.