With all the disruption at the Leeds and Liverpool canal this year, one of the canal boating holiday companies – Rosewood Narrow Boats – has unfortunately announced that they will be closing for good at the end of this season. The last chance to book canal boat holidays with Rosewood Narrow Boats will therefore be very soon, if they are not all fully booked up already.
The Leeds and Liverpool canal is set to re-open on Wednesday after six weeks of restrictions to preserve water due to record low levels of reservoirs, but it will remain shut before 9am and after 4pm until the reservoirs are fuller.
The reason stated for the winding up of the business is because the owners fear the Leeds and Liverpool canal could be forced to close again at any time, and the disruption was just too much for them.
Nigel Feeney, owner of the family-run Rosewood Narrow Boats, criticised the state of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and said he had no confidence in British Waterways
During the canal closure from Wigan to Gargrave Rosewood Narrowboats moved from Reedley Marina, on the Burnley and Pendle border, to Nantwich.
Feeney said:
We are not returning. We’re staying put until the end of the season and then were leaving the industry completely. I have no faith in British Waterways. The threat of closure has been there since 2005 and it could happen again any year. I don’t feel staying in the industry is a viable option at the moment. It’s not a safe bet
Re-locating was a major upheaval. It is not ideal to have to transport everything there and then travel down there four times a week.I don’t know what I’ll do when we finish. I’ll see what comes along.
Rosewood Narrowboats website is at : http://www.rosewoodnarrowboats.co.uk
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