Urban Moorings CIC

Urban moorings is a community-based project aiming to provide the spaces for both the boating and local community to make use of. It is based on what was a derelict scrap of land jointly owned by Canal and River Trust [...]

It`s Been A Long Summer – and look what we have done.It has certainly been an interesting year has 2020. We were so please earlier in the year that we were in a position where we could begin welcoming visitors [...]

Using big old recycled beams, which can be a real pain to cut and have all sorts of of nails and stuff that has to be removed, means progress can be a bit slow. But its worth it and when [...]

PERFECT PLANTER – WELL NEARLY!(but it is recycled ) Its amazing what you can make out of a load of old timbers that were destined for landfill or burning. When our `shed of doom` was demolished, we asked if we [...]

amazing picture of Commercial Wharf in the 1950's [...]

Building a Green House from an old conservatory destined for land fill. [...]

Hummmmm. Some may say that we have a strange sense of humour!! Well possibly. We now have a ‘grave’ on site Sitting just looking around and a lump of concrete just looked like a grave stone —— so we had [...]

We are removing and clearing a space at the front entrance to put in a greenhouse. This area get loads of sun so this is perfect position for it for a bench made out of tyres!  Anyway we have loads [...]

We had a visitor in the arm. Just managed to get a picture.  Kingfishers are small unmistakable bright blue and orange birds of slow moving or still water. They fly rapidly, low over water, and hunt fish from riverside perches, occasionally [...]

Thanks to the big BCN clean up who paid us a visit today and took a load of scrap/rubbish. Every year the IWA, WRG and BCN society organise workboats and invite volunteers to help them remove rubbish from the canal. [...]