Focus on Transport next weekend

Next weekend is the Historic Narrow Boats Gathering on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st July and the Audlem Transport Festival on Sunday 31st July.

The Transport Festival, organised by the Audlem Special Events Team (ASET), will see the village packed with fascinating vehicles. Around three hundred vintage and classic cars, motor cycles, buses, commercial and agricultural vehicles will parade through the village before assembling on the playing field for closer inspection by the large crowds that turn up each year to this popular free event.

Owners of vehicles had booked all the available spaces months ago so a full parade of participants is anticipated.

All the vehicles gather at nearby Hankelow in the morning before driving to Audlem from 11.00am. Crowds line the village streets, and there's an informative commentary describing each vehicle as they drive past. The vehicles should all be on the playing field by 12.15pm.

As well as the hundreds of wheeled attractions, there will be much to see over the weekend on the canal at Audlem Wharf with a Gathering of Historic Narrow Boats organised by Audlem Mill. An expected 31 vintage boats will be moored so it will be well worth walking down the recently refurbished canal towpath to enjoy finding out more about these fascinating boats. They will be moored from the A525 road bridge near Audlem Mill down to Lock 15.

You can also take a trip on the canal with the Audlem Lass boat service that runs from Lock 15 to Overwater Marina. This service carries about 4,000 passengers a year and raises large sums of money for the RNLI, the lifeboat charity.

Audlem Lass will, of course, be running this weekend too, always a pleasant trip to the marina.

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