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…
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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…
15th June 2024 @ 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm Come and visit us at this village day and find out more about the Somersetshire Coal Canal Society. You can find…
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…
On Sunday 1st October we had the pleasure of giving Cllrs Karen Walker and Gavin Heathcote a tour of the Paulton end of the Coal Canal. The timing coincided with…
Mike Baker was a teacher at City of Bath Boys School, which later became Beechan Cliff Boys School, in Bath from 1959. He taught Geography and Maths for 42 years….
21st March 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm The talk will look at water demand, supply and management on canals from the earliest canals up to the time the…