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The Buckingham Navigator 2024 Summer

The Buckingham Navigator – Issue 119 Summer 2024

I’m pleased to inform you that The Buckingham Navigator – Issue 119 Summer 2024 is now available to view or download from the newsletter page.

As well as our regular features, this issue also includes:

  • Terry Cavender explains the dredging that is planned, and the works accomplished so far with our dredger Diana.

  • Athina Beckett discusses our exciting new arrangement with The Conservation Volunteers Green Gym scheme.
  • Alan Mynard tells the story of how our website has evolved from humble beginnings through to its latest incarnation in an effort to keep it refreshed, whilst staying in step with the fast moving digital age.
  • New Trustee Steve Morley writes about the pressures of getting ready for the BBC Countryfile film crew to arrive, and all the excitement the event brought with it.
  • Tim Coghlan, Managing Director of Braunston Marina provides an insightful and illustrated in-depth look at the work of the Waterway Recovery Group’s Christmas Camp at Cosgrove.

I would like to invite you all to visit our growing portfolio of social media pages where you can join in the conversation and see photos of our latest achievements. To find us:

Follow/Like us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/buckinghamcanalsociety
Reach us on X at: www.twitter.com/bcsocietyuk
Find us on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/buckinghamcanalsociety
Watch us on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/buckinghamcanalsociety
Follow us on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/company/bcsocietyuk

Depending on which social media platform you use, please ‘Follow’, ‘Like’, ‘Tweet’, watch, share or comment, but most importantly, please be sure to share our posts so we can spread the good news about the work we are doing.

I always welcome new ideas and articles for The Buckingham Navigator, so if you can help in any way with new features, stories, photographs or canal-related news that you feel could be included in future issues, please let me know by e-mail editor@buckinghamcanal.org.uk or telephone 07793 451958. Copy date for the next issue is the 1st August 2024.

I am interested to know your experiences with accessing The Buckingham Navigator on-line, so please send me an email with your thoughts and comments.

Ian Matson

The Buckingham Navigator Editor