blogs on waterscape.com
blogs on waterscape.com
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Roger Hanbury Roger joined The Waterways Trust as its first Chief Executive in 2000. Since then the Trust has directly raised over £16m for waterway-based projects in England Wales and Scotland. -
Mark Robinson Mark provides ecological support to the South Wales & West Waterway, as well as having a national focus, providing specialist support and advice on protected and invasive fauna. He has been a licenced bat worker for the last 26 years, and has undertaken in depth research on many of our UK's bat species. -
Dick Vincent Dick Vincent is London's Towpath Ranger. Along with his team, he works hard to ensure that London's Towpaths remain one of the best places in the world to walk and cycle. He used to live on a boat in the Bow Back Rivers, but now lives on land near the Old Surrey canal with his girlfriend, cat and several 'vintage' (broken) bicycles. -
John Davies John Davies is an enthusiastic contributor to the British Waterways Wildlife Survey. He blogs about his latest wildlife sightings. -
Bob Samson Bob Samson is on of British Waterways' volunteer lock keepers on the River Trent. -
John Lobley John has been a seasonal lock keeper with British Waterways since 2006. -
Damian Kemp Damian Kemp is a project officer for British Waterways and has been with the company for two years Prior to joining British Waterways Damian worked for the Royal Navy as a medic on its submarines before moving into nuclear decommissioning and marketing for the construction industry. He has also admitted to previously having a huge crush on Kylie. -
Paul Martin Since retiring in 2010, Paul has been keeping himself busy by volunteering with both Sustrans and British Waterways. The Wildlife Trust at Westport Lake is the latest volunteering role he has, this includes brush clearance, tree planting, coppicing etc mainly in North Staffordshire. -
Robin Evans Having previously worked for Historic Royal Palaces and The Landmark Trust, British Waterways' chief executive is helping to guide the organisation's waterways in England and Wales towards a new charitable status. In his spare time Robin enjoys getting out and about on the waterways, gardening and reading (most recently on his Kindle). -
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Priscilla McClay Priscilla is Waterscape's temporary assistant web content editor (a bit of a mouthful!), a former British Waterways volunteer and a social media enthusiast. -
Robert McLean In his youth, Rob used to be involved in the design and construction of Anglian flood defences, boreholes and bridges. After a career change into the media and charity sectors, he returned to the waterways in 2002, this time with fire and carbon monoxide safety in focus. He is now heard to say "is that equivalent with ISO 10239" just a little too often... -
Odette Williamson Odette is the web content editor at British Waterways and lives in a house with two gerbils backing on to the Aylesbury Arm in Buckinghamshire. -
Nick Worthington Joined BW in March 1999 as a waterway engineer at Fradley. Since then, I've worked as a Supervisor, Canal Manager, Water Engineer, Auditor, Maintenance Manager, Senior Operations Manager, and now a Waterway Manager - yes I've been around the block a few times! Like our Chairman, I support Aston Villa but also follow Worcester Rugby and Cradley Speedway (the 'Heathens'). I now live in Ledbury and amongst other things, enjoy walking the Malvern Hills and strumming an acoustic guitar. -
Towpath Tidy Towpath Tidy takes place every year around March. Volunteers join BW staff to help clean up our canals and towpaths ahead of the summer boating season. Read our blogs from the bank in Towpath Tidy 2010. -
Tony Lenten Tony is now retired from his position within ICT at British Waterways and is enjoying a life of leisure - including lots of time afloat. -
Tony Hales Tony Hales is the Chairman of British Waterways and an avid Aston Villa fan. -
Paul Morgan Paul is the waterscape webmaster, a deceptively underwhelming job title, but who needs job titles? As well as having a healthy interest in the intertubes and all capabilities around it, he also likes like to step in on the devil's day off to argue flippant points. Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net -
WOW team WOW is the British Waterways' education team: Annette Simpson, and Sarah Cook. We work together to promote the waterways to children aged 7-11. -
Terry Sigsworth Terry is a tunnel operative on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. He can usually be found in the depths of Standedge Tunnel, chaperoning boats or running tourist trips, and has a strong appreciation for canal heritage and the environment. -
Liz Waddington Liz Waddington has edited BW's staff newspaper, BW Monthly, since 2001 and enjoyed her first canal holiday when she was 10. -
Edd Moss Edd is BW's National Volunteering Manager and general 'enjoyer' of the waterways, be that cycling, kayaking or just ambling on a sunny afternoon. He's worked for BW for 10 years. -
John Bruce John is Marketing Coordinator for Scotland and has been with British Waterways since November 2006. When not at work, he enjoys nothing more than a competitive game of snap. -
Sally Ash Sally is Head of Boating Business. She joined BW as research officer in 1976 after postgraduate research at Reading University studying leisure use of inland waterways. A canal enthusiast inspired by teenage years exploring waterways in Shropshire. -
Patrol Team The London Enforcement Team currently has five members of staff. They look after the canals and rivers in Central London, Docklands, Brentford, Slough, Hertford and Bishops Stortford. -
Natalie Bhogal Natalie joined BW in 2004 and became editor of waterscape in 2005. She now works across all of BW's websites and is able to spell 'Pontcysyllte' without looking it up.
