We seem to have created a tradition of having a Christmas pub crawl in the week or two leading up to Christmas. People were asking me the other day about some of the routes we had done in the past, so I dug out some info from old emails… Year Read more…
I’ve given the Bristol Canoe Club website a bit of spring clean: https://www.bristolcanoeclub.org.uk/ It has a new WordPress theme, which makes it look a bit cleaner, with easier navigation. The search function is now more prominent, and there is a tag cloud which you can use to filter the articles Read more…
Bristol Canoe Club was formed in the spring of 1962 to promote canoeing in the Bristol area and met at a barn with a loft in Keynsham. As this barn deteriorated, a new site was found in Saltford owed by Avery’s wine merchants. In December 1962, the first club newsletter Read more…
This lists the trophies that the club has awarded over the years. The information goes back to 1998 for complete information, and partial information back to 1989.
Year Chairman Treasurer Secretary Membership 2023 – 2024 Mark Gillett Conor O’Neill Lisa Gunton Nick Wainwright 2022 – 2023 Genny Sargent Conor O’Neill Fran Bamber & Tanya Cownie Nick Wainwright 2021 – 2022 Tom Brockett Conor O’Neill Fran Bamber & Tanya Cownie Nick Wainwright 2020 – 2021 Tom Brockett Fran Read more…
I have a copy of the very first newsletter distributed by Bristol Canoe Club. This is “Issue 1, Number 1”, December 1962. The club had obviously been founded before this, but we don’t know how much earlier. Note that this includes a suggestion to paddle the river Dart from Dartmeet Read more…
Here is a link to a lot of photos from Bristol Canoe Club trips up to 2006: http://www.bristolcanoeclub.org.uk/static/photos/photos.htm Similarly, old videos: https://www.bristolcanoeclub.org.uk/static/videos/videos.htm
I have now installed a new website, which uses WordPress. This means we can have a combination of pages supplied by the Webmaster, plus posts supplied by any club members. If you’d like to be given a username so that you can post to this website, please contact the webmaster Read more…
For many years, Bristol Canoe Club ran a Haslar-ranking marathon race at Hanham, just outside Bristol.
Below are the final results (March 2004) for the National SW Div 4 League. Team Played Won Lost Drawn Goals For Goals Against GD Points Ranking Aberfan 18 17 1 0 66 13 53 86 1 Bere Forest 18 12 3 3 61 24 37 72 2 Avon 18 11 Read more…