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LATEST NEWS

16th June 2008

 The Society has purchased a collection of photographs, plateway rails, wheels and coal waggon parts from Paul Rossiter of Frome. This is by far the biggest 'find' of canal artifacts during the existence of the SCCS and the job of identifyiing and cataloguing all these items will take some time.

More information will be given in the next edition of Weigh-House


1st June 2008

 Lock 15 is back in water for the first time in eight years

On Sunday 1st June, the SCCS Work Party arrived to find Lock 15 in water for the fist time since Spring of 2000. The recent diversion work at the Bulls Nose and the channels dug across the pounds from Lock 11 down to Lock 15, combined with recent heavy rain, have delivered enough water to Lock 15 to partly fill it, despite serious leakage.

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