Here is a wonderful poem celebrating Bude Sea Canal by Lucille Opie:   Our Canal, unique as it is locked to the sea Was opened in eighteen twenty-three. For two […]

It is well worth joining this organisation to attend their monthly lectures. Here’s a report on the first one by Helen Bartrop Hocking. With Autumn Equinox behind them, and a […]

I attach a photo of Box’s Iron Foundry, unknown date. I would be interested to see any other photos of the inclined plane or Foundry.

The canal in the 1900s with the Alford

The Canal in the 1970s with mv Field and Gevarrh

The Canal in the 1890s looking towards Bude.

The Canal in 1937 with the ketch Ade locking out.

A ketch in the 1920s taking on sand ballast

The Mary Stewart in the canal in 1928

The Ketch ‘Bessie Clark’ in the 1930s