Nutfield in dry dock, October ’13 – photos
Photos courtesy of Dale Howlett Our thanks, as ever, to Braunston Marina for the use of the dry dock. Raymond benefitted from a bit of tlc as well …
Author: Jeremy Cooper
Revenue from the last few events
This from Robin Bishop, Friend of Raymond Secretary: We have recently attended our final events for this year. The income for these is as follows. Alvecote was a total of £226.33 with £212.70 for Sales and £13.63 for Donations. Although …
Stoke Bruerne Village at War this weekend
On 14th-15th September the little canal village of Stoke Bruerne steps back in time to the Second World War. Nutfield and Raymond will be there! In previous years there’s also been a flyover by WW2 aeroplanes – so remember to …
Nutfield to the rescue at Alvecote!
Here’s an email from Robin Stonebridge, Chair of the Chesterfield Canal Trust Ltd, to Steve Miles, Chair of The Friends of Raymond (reproduced with Robin’s kind permission): Dear Steve, Last weekend, our delightful but slightly ailing boat, Python, together with …
Bank Holiday Weekend – Alvecote
Raymond & Nutfield will be at the Alvecote Historic Boat Gathering this weekend. Those of you north of Braunston why not come along and see us!
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/
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 …