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Christmas to
 28 February
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March
 Seven days a week,
 10.00 - 4.00
April to late October
 Seven days a week,
 9.00 - 5.00
Late October to Christmas
 Tuesday-Sunday,
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Site updated
 5 April 2017

AUDLEM MILL

on the Shropshire Union Canal in south Cheshire

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Historic Boats


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ABACUS DESIGNS

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 EVENTS AT AUDLEM MILL
Paintings and embroidered pictures by
 Sheila M Webster
 Permanent exhibition by Audlem artist
Canal Art Exhibition
 About 150 paintings, linocut prints and photographs from 15-20 artists
 2 - 29 April
Steam Punk Costume
 Exhibition by Audlem costume maker Monique Hollinshead
 22 May - 30 July
Gathering of Historic Boats
 29/30 July
 About 35 ex-working boats
Textile Exhibition
 by Fiona Nisbet
 Autumn - dates to be confirmed

GATHERING OF HISTORIC BOATS

Audlem     29/30 July 2017



This event is now one of the most popular gatherings of historic ex-working boats in Britain, having started in 2009.  We will have at least 30 narrow boats, dating from the 1900s through to 1960.  Some are restored to their original carrying condition, but others are converted with cabins for living or holidaying on. The boats will stretch from the main road bridge to the bottom of the flight of locks.


At the canal wharf you will see Saturn, a 1906 Shropshire Union Canal fly boat, which often worked from Audlem, carrying cheeses and other goods loaded from the canal warehouse (now the Shroppie Fly pub).  Fly boats were timetabled to work round the clock, with horses regularly changed along the route, and crews less frequently!


The event is free to attend.  Please do not try to park at the canal wharf, as there is no public parking, but use the field by the canal bridge, just by the A529 turn to Market Drayton.


If you would like to enter your histotic boat, please phone 01270 811059,

or email info@audlemmill.co.uk