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Down Memory Lane with MK Canals: At Wolverton Park Canalside Heritage Event

Lonsdale, Wolverton Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK12 5FN

  • 21 Sep 2025
  • In person
  • Pre-booking preferred

There’ll be a canal history display and talks, and we’ll gather your memories about experiences of MK canals. Please bring photographs or newspaper cuttings if you have them. The all-electric MK Community Boat Electra will be present to view.

At Wolverton Park, we’ll be near Robert Stevenson’s Grade II listed railway bridge: an architectural feature of Wolverton’s industrial landscape. We’ll focus on the time when rail and canal first crossed locally. When Stevenson wanted to build his new railway from London to Birmingham he had to cross the well-established Grand Junction Canal at Wolverton. History called the rivalry between the two enterprises “the Battle of Wolverton”. We’re seeking specifically Wolverton stories and memories of the canal to help with our planned project on the History of Milton Keynes’ Canals. There’ll be displays of local canal history and restoration works.

12.00-16.30 Canal history and canal restoration display and the chance to share memories of MK Canals with our volunteer MK Canals History Team
12.00-12.30 and 13.00-13.30 Half hour talks on canal history on board MK Community Boat Electra at the mooring (booking online essential, bookings open 01 September)
14.00 Opening of the new Accessible & Electric Boarding Point at Wolverton Park and the first trips from there on MK Community Boat Electra (details available online in early September)

Timings & Tours

Sunday 21 September:
1200 - 1630

Location & directions

Lonsdale, Wolverton Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK12 5FN

Directions:
What three words: condition.detail.payback The event is on the canal towpath. Park as near as you can to the venue and walk to the canal towpath (clearly signed).
Contact on day:
David Wolfson
Telephone number:
+447770571902

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking preferred
Booking conditions:
Talks & cruises on board Electra Boat limited to 12 seats. Booking and timings TBC at the start of September.
Booking website:
https://www.bmkwaterway.org/electra/
Booking opens:
01 Sep 2025 12:00 AM

Accessibility details

There is a disabled access ramp, steps and paved area.

Additional information

Check out our online channels

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