West Vale Branch
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Friday 14th to Sunday 16th June 2002
Wiltshire Waterways Festival

VENUE - Templar's Firs, Wootton Bassett
Celebrating Twenty Five Years of Restoration. A Waterway Event for all the Family. See the Festival's website here for more details.

Friday 21st June
Summer Solstice Walk

VENUE - The Pocket Park, Shrivenham
Time - 7.15 pm for 7.30 pm
The annual walk along our stretch of canal. See the progress on Steppingstone Lane Bridge first hand. Please get in touch if you would like more information.

Friday 22 February 2002

W&BCAG Abingdon Branch Quiz Night

7:00PM for 7:30PM at the Caudwell Day Centre, Gravel Lane, Drayton, Abingdon.

Can the all-powerful West Vale Branch retain this title too for yet another year?


Saturday 24 November 2001

Wilts & Berks Canal Amenity Group
East End Skittles Challenge

VENUE - The Plough on A420 between Faringdon & Swindon
Time - 7.30 pm for 8.00 pm
This is the annual inter-Branch skittles match. West Vale have cleaned up for the last three years on the trot and this year we look set to do the same again.

Sure enough we won again. Fortunately winning it four times in a row does NOT mean we can keep the trophy which is lump of wood roughly hewn to represent a boat - truly hideous.


Saturday 13 October 2001

Wilts & Berks Canal Amenity Group Annual General Meeting

Foxham Reading Rooms. There is a motion to change the name of the Group.

Wednesday 12 June 2001

W&BCAG West Vale Branch meeting

8:00PM Shrivenham Bowls Club. Regular monthly Branch meeting (2nd Wednesday). ALL WELCOME - cheap beer. Click here for a map.

Saturday 16 June 2001

Branch trip to Swindon greyhounds


Wednesday 9 May 2001

W&BCAG West Vale Branch meeting

8:00PM Shrivenham Bowls Club. Regular monthly Branch meeting (2nd Wednesday). ALL WELCOME - cheap beer. Click here for a map.

Wednesday 11 April 2001

W&BCAG West Vale Branch meeting

8:00PM Shrivenham Bowls Club. Regular monthly Branch meeting (2nd Wednesday). ALL WELCOME - cheap beer. Click here for a map.

Wednesday 14 March 2001

W&BCAG West Vale Branch meeting

8:00PM Shrivenham Bowls Club. Regular monthly Branch meeting (2nd Wednesday). ALL WELCOME - cheap beer. Click here for a map.

Friday 16 February 2001

W&BCAG Abingdon Branch Quiz Night

7:00PM for 7:30PM at the Caudwell Day Centre, Gravel Lane, Drayton, Abingdon.

The quiz was won on a tie-breaker by the Forward/Norris team from this Branch (they were also joint winners of round 4). The Large/Kendall/Breese team, also from this Branch, were runners-up, after losing the tie-break, and winners of rounds 1 and 2. It should be noted that the Large/Kendall/Breese team supported the Forward/Norris team's claim of an extra 1/2 point earlier in the quiz, thus costing them the title - but they're not bitter. Not at all. Honest.

(Aside: West Vale Branch makes a habit of cleaning up at this sort of event. The Branch has been the winner of the Team, Ladies and Gents intra-Group skittles competition for the last three years. It's nice to win - but the other Branches really do need to buck their ideas up.)


Wednesday 14 February 2001

W&BCAG West Vale Branch meeting

8:00PM Shrivenham bowls club. Regular monthly meeting (2nd Wednesday).

Wednesday 7 February 2001

A slide show and social evening

7:30PM for 8:00PM at the British Legion Club, East Hanney.

Peter Boyce (a W&BCAG founder member and first editor of Dragonfly) will be presenting his slides from the 1970s when restoration was just a dream.

The slide show was excellent. Some of the slides I found most interesting were those taken during the demolition of Swindon's heritage Swindon's redevelopment. Peter's commentary was fascinating and included many interesting anecdotes. The slides have been presented to the Group and it is hoped to transfer them to CDROM.

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