Illustrated talk by Louise Nicholson.
Last year the Georgian Group gave their prestigious ‘Green Award’ to Cotswold Canals Trust, citing ‘exemplary conservation and restoration projects, achieved by people with vision and commitment’.
Tonight’s Shed Talk tells the remarkable and uplifting story of the vision that began in the 1970s, when Stroud Valley residents began a crazily ambitious volunteer project to revive the handsome stone-built Georgian canals to be a ribbon of landscape to benefit nature and the community for free, forever.
See work in progress
You can also join Louise and Mike Howarth to walk part of the canal on Saturday 27 April. Meet at 9.30am by the canal in front of Stonehouse Court Hotel, to walk to John Robinson Lock and back. Cost £5, to book please use this link: Book your place on the Walk
Louise Nicholson
Louise Nicholson is an art historian and writer living near Stonehouse, whose work focuses on India. She is equally as happy sauntering along the canal towpath (pausing at great pubs) as clambering up Cotswold hills (and often losing her way). She has unbounded admiration for the 900 or so canal restoration volunteers.
Please note that tickets bought on the door on the night cost £9.50 and £6.50 respectively