What have you missed this year?
Friday 16 October – Slide show and talk by Denis Moor
Denis is a well known resident of Pocklington with 40 years experience as a deep sea diver. Unlike most talks about the Pocklington Canal, Denis will be looking at what can be found under water. He has an extensive collection of antique bottles collected from wrecks and even from the Pocklington Canal. Admission £2
If you would like a pie and pea supper during the interval, this can be ordered, price £1.50, on arrival. This event starts at 7 pm. There will be a raffle to raise funds for PCAS, for which prizes will be gratefully received.
Wellington Oak, Canal Head (YO42 1NW)
Tuesday 29 September – Mikron Theatre visits East Cottingwith
The Mikron Theatre Company has been performing at venues on or near canals for nearly forty years and East Cottingwith Village Hall regularly appears on their itinerary. Most of their performances have a waterways theme and this evening it will be Tales of the Thames. The event starts at 7.30 pm. More details on the Mikron Theatre website.
Tickets cost £6. Further details tel: 01759 318530
East Cottingwith Village Hall, East Cottingwith (YO42 4TL)
Saturday 12 September – Melbourne Village Hall Anniversary Day
PCAS will have a stand in the Village Hall. Come and meet members of PCAS and find out more about the Pocklington Canal. 12 – 4 pm.
Short boat trips will be available on both Saturday and Sunday.
Melbourne Village Hall, Melbourne
(YO42 4RB)
Friday 29 May – PCAS 40th Anniversary Dinner
A special dinner has been arranged to mark the 40th anniversary of PCAS. The venue will be Allerthorpe Park Golf Club. Click this link for a menu and booking form. We are delighted that Robin Evans, Chief Executive of British Waterways, will attend our celebration dinner.
Friday 15 May – 'Invertebrate life beneath the waves – the Pocklington Canal'
PCAS member Geoff Oxford will be giving a talk for the local branch of the Inland Waterways Association.
Geoff is a senior lecturer at the University of York. You may have seen Geoff and his wife Roma in the BBC Hands on Nature programme featuring the Pocklington Canal, which has been shown frequently. There is an account of a recent canal dipping session with Geoff in the November 2008 issue of Double Nine.
(IWA East Yorkshire Branch)
Wednesday 29 April – PCAS Annual General Meeting
Information about this meeting is in the current issue of Double Nine.
Friday 17 April – 'The Pocklington Canal' – Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society
(IWA East Yorkshire Branch)
Friday 20 March – IWA Branch AGM followed by 'A cruise up the Rhine'
(IWA East Yorkshire Branch)
Friday 27 February – East Cottingwith Village Hall
Members of PCAS will be giving a presentation about the Pocklington Canal and the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society. This will include fascinating information that has survived from before the canal was built, almost 200 years ago. We have old cine film taken in the early days of restoration of the canal. Health & Safety had not been invented and you will not see any hard hats, just local residents and waterway enthusiasts working hard and enjoying themselves.
Until ten years ago, restoration was the main activity of the Society. Running our trip boat New Horizons is now the our main focus, and in the past four years it has provided pleasure for children and their parents.
Come and hear about the canal society and what we have done to help preserve the canal for everyone to enjoy.