AS PART of Worcester’s first-ever canal festival this summer keen snappers are being invited to capture some views of the 200-year-old waterway for use in a calendar.
The three-day Worcester Canal Festival will be held from Friday, June 12 and is part of a series of events being held across the entire length of the waterway to celebrate its bicentennial.
As part of the celebrations the Worcester Canal Group is inviting photographers to submit photos of the canal for use in a 2016 calendar.
The competition is being run on a monthly basis and photos, which can be of wildlife, the landscape or the canal’s industrial history, taken each month must be submitted by the first of the following month.
Images must be landscape, in jpg format, be of the stretch of the canal between Bilford Road and Park Street and only one entry per person per month is allowed.
June’s canal festival will include live music, stalls, narrow boats and other attractions and all proceeds will go to a range of Worcester charities.
The Worcester to Birmingham Canal stretches 29 miles and has 58 locks. Construction began in 1791 and the canal fully opened 24 years later in December 1815.
For more information on the canal festival visit www.addpartners.net and click on Projects, or email info@worcestercanalgroup.org.uk.
Entries for the photography competition can be submitted to jam2264@hotmail.com.
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