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28 The Link Magazine • May 2001 www.swir
Welcome boost for
canal restoration

The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust is financially buoyant thanks to
donations made by local company Crapper & Sons.
The company, which advertises Boned in 1914. The trust aims to
Express Skips in The Link, has been restore the canal to enable boats to
supporting the restoration of the once again travel its whole length.
canal for the past four years by It will then form the core of the
making donations to the Swindon Wessex Waterway Network link-
branch of the trust via the Land Fill ing the Kennet & Avon Canal with
Tax Credit Scheme, which allows the Thames & Severn Canal and
tax payments to be diverted to en- the River Thames.
vironmental charities. Over the next few years it hopes
Their latest contribu tion takes to link the canal at Kingshill with
the total given to over £108,000, by the length at Moredon. Crapper cash handover at the Moredon canal, from left, Roger Crapper,
far the largest donation the group www.wilts-berks-canal.org.uk Howard Crapper, Harry Bromley, Lawrence Crapper, Janet Flanagan, Tony
has received since it formed in 1977. Davy, amenity group chairman, Henry Smith, chair of Swindon branch
Com an chairman Ro er
Crapper said, "we identify very GET YOUR rr\ZE jr,
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for the environment and the com- GARDEN FIT Lr\M D9,CArI N
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now in water around Swindon."
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Harry Bromley, Swindon branch gardens tidied up
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is no doubt that the Crapper com- block paving
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ble for the enormous progress the Mr Rotavator • Ponds & pergolas
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