Birmingham Canal Navigations Society

Birmingham Canal Navigations Society

The Birmingham Canal Navigations Society is a waterway society, a registered charity no. 1091760 (since 1968) and a limited company no. 4306537 (since 2002), operating on the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and based at Oldbury, West Midlands, England, UK.

ee also

*List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom
*List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2006/01/27/bcns_phil_feature.shtml BBC Birmingham: BCNS Chairman Phil Clayton writes about the 100 mile long network of Birmingham and Black Country waterways]

* [http://www.birminghammail.net/news/your-news/2008/07/06/birmingham-canal-navigations-society-celebrates-40th-anniversary-97319-21435683/ Birmingham Mail, 6 July 2008, article: Birmingham Canal Navigations Society celebrates 40th anniversary]

* [http://www.waterways.org.uk/Ourwork/AHistoryofIWA/HistoricCampaigns/BirminghamCanalNavigations Inland Waterways Association: Historic Campaigns on the BCN]

* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/352517 GEOGRAPH image 352517, Horseley Fields Canal Junction Signpoast, erecetd by BCNS]

* [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:EKHaJ6NDEqkJ:news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/england/nwyl/westmidnews/blackcountrynews/737/73708/story7370859.wml+%22Birmingham+Canal+Navigations+Society%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=73&gl=uk BBC NEWS, 28 April 2008, Live ammunition found by volunteers cleaning up a Black Country Canal]

* [http://www.bcn-society.co.uk/thebcns.php Birmingham Canal Navigations Society website]


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