March 29 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Walk description: A guided walk of coal, coke ovens, railway remains, plus railway and canal projects that never happened! Walk duration: 2.5hours…
Coal Canal
March 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Pensford and Bromley Collieries opened Pensford Colliery to mine the Pensford syncline in 1909. By 1947 the output was 70,000 tons pa….
17th April 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm The Weigh-House and its weighing machine by Roger Halse (SCCS Archivist), plus Robert Wheldon’s Hydrostatick Caisson Lock, how it worked, the…
23rd March 2025 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm A visit to the site of the former Dunkerton Pumping Engine site and the mill pond below which supplied it. Weather…
20th March 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Research on the Somersetshire Coal Canal by Roger Halse. Paulton Village Hall, Farrington Road, Paulton, BS39 7LW. Roger will be talking…
14th October 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Following great interest in our quest to spread the word of the canal to pubs along the route, we are inviting…
Walk – Paulton to Radford along the canal
On Monday 31st July, we met with Richard Burgess and Bryn Hawkins from Somer Valley FM. They interviewed us for Bryn’s new show, which will be airing soon. Bryn is…