25/26 February - Jacksdale
A new date announced - finishing the clearance work at Jacksdale. 10am meet at the community centre car park. Please bring food, drink and tools if you have them. More information from Dave Tinkler (see Contact details)
'Derbyshire Oddities' - Barrie Lings
Monday 19th March, 7.30pm, £1.50, Ironville Village Hall
Annual General Meeting
Monday 16th April, 7.30pm, Ironville Village Hall
'Notable and Notorious Women of Derbyshire' - Joan Ward
Monday 21st May, 7.30pm, £1.50, Ironville Village Hall
'Derbyshire ghosts and legends' - David Bell
Monday 18th June, 7.30pm, £1.50, Ironville Village Hall
Mailing lists go online
The new mailing list system is now online. It is designed to reduce the email traffic, as members can sign up to receive targeted information. List and subscription information is at the list information page. Read more here.
FCC Wins Award
The Friends of the Cromford Canal has won the 'Best Non-Commercial Stand' at the IWA Waterways Festival for the second time in three years. Congratulations to the sales team for their success!! Read more here.
WRG Camp Success
17 volunteers from the Waterway Recovery Group spent the week working on the Sawmills Gauging Narrows, commencing work on the restoration of this unusual structure. Read more here, and view the gallery of photos here.
21/02/2012 Canal society links updated
I've finally got around to updating all of the current restoration projects on the links page - see here for more.
17/01/2012 Mike Higginbottom archive uploaded
A fabulous selection of slides showing the canal since the early 1960s, courtesy of Mike Higginbottom. See the archive here.
The Friends of the Cromford Canal is a charitable organisation whose aim is to see the restoration of the historic Cromford Canal for the benefit of the general public. We advocate and promote its restoration to navigation, connected to the national inland waterway system, and the conservation, use, maintenance, and development of the canal, buildings, towing path, structures, craft and environment now or previously associated with the canal to its fullest use for appropriate commercial and recreational purposes and to preserve this valuable historical heritage.
On this site we would like to invite you to explore the Cromford Canal and its history. We will also offer you some insight into the work we are doing to preserve and restore the canal.