Posted on January 30, 2019
Canal boats will be allowed access through the canal for the first time in ninety years (Image: Handout)
Grantham canal has begun dredging work which will allow boats to pass through for the first time in ninety years.
Long haul excavators will begin hauling out mud and silt from the bottom of the canal at Locks 15 and 16.
This will allow canal boats to travel from Grantham to Nottingham in a few years time.
The Canal and River Trust and the Grantham Canal Society are overseeing the work.
Karen Rice, one of the managers for the project, told BBC Radio Lincolnshire: “It’s a really exciting milestone in the history of this canal.
“What we’re doing at the moment is dredging – we’re removing the silt and mud from the bottom of the canal, so that boats will be able to come back and bring this section back to life.
“We’ve had volunteers here working for the past three years working incredibly hard to take this lock and rebuild it brick by brick.”
The canal was opened in 1797 as a cheap way of transporting coal from Nottingham to Grantham.
The canal closed in 1929, meaning boats no longer had access through it.
Source: LincolnshireLive
