Events and Activities
From boat trips to steam days to canal festivals, the Trust's museums also feature temporary exhibitions and new materials, giving visitors plenty to see and do throughout the year.
Find out about the people who worked on our waterways. People from all different backgrounds were involved in the construction and operation of these important transport systems - the rich as investors and the brains behind the development of the canals, and the working classes with their hard labour as navvies and boatmen. Both shared a vision that the canals were the way forward for the nation's economic prosperity. The hard toll and planning that began around 1750 by these visionary people resulted in the industrial revolution that put Britain at the centre of world trade.
You can explore this fascinating story, discover how fortunes were made and lost, how people found fame, the type of businesses that were created by the introduction of the new canal system and how these waterways affected the life of future generations.
The waterways today
The 'new canal age' is giving our waterways life once more, providing opportunities for boaters, walkers, cyclists and anglers. The Waterways Trust works with its partners to bring about the widest possible awareness and promote greater public enjoyment of the UK's canals and rivers.
There is always something going on, on our waterways.
For more information about events at:
The National Waterways Museum (Gloucester): 01452 318200 or contact us.
email us.
The National Waterways Museum (Ellesmere Port) formerly known as the Boat Museum
: 0151 373 4373 or contact us.
email us.
The National Waterways Museum (Stoke Bruerne) formerly known as the Canal Museum
: 01604 862229 or contact us.
email us.
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