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Privacy policy
Privacy Statement Introduction In accordance with our data protection policy, this privacy statement explains how we use your data, how you can control the way in which we use that data and what actions you can take if you would like to change the way in which your data is being used.
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Who are we? We are St Pancras Cruising Club, a members’ club that exists to promote pleasure cruising on UK inland waterways and to provide facilities for its members and others.
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Why do we need your information and whose data do we collect? We are membership organisation which exists to support use of the waterways with a specific focus on the canals and rivers of London. To this purpose the Club organises regular cruising events for members and non-members, and promotes safe boating on the Thames tideway. In addition, the Club leases St Pancras Yacht basin and St Pancras Waterpoint from the Canal and River Trust. We maintain a strong interest in the local area (Camden and Islington Boroughs). We hold data on people who do, or might do, the following: • Become a member of St Pancras Cruising Club, • Take part in Club events or activities, • Support St Pancras Cruising Club financially and in other ways, • Wish to receive information about St Pancras Waterpoint
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How we obtain your data From you The majority of the information we hold about you will have been provided directly by you when you have registered on the Club website, or taken part in one of more of the activities outlined above. From someone other than you We may receive information from a member of the Club who has suggested that you are interested in membership or Club activities.
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What we do with your data The core activities we carry out with your data enable us to: • Send information to you about St Pancras Cruising Club and your membership, • Administer your membership, • Build financial and volunteer support for St Pancras Cruising Club and its activities through various fundraising and community activities, • Promote the aims and objectives of St Pancras Cruising Club through any other activities not specifically mentioned.
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What information we collect We collect the following classes of information: • Name(s) and address, email addresses, phone number(s) and other relevant contact details and preferences. • From members we collect information regarding their boats and vehicles, • Use of social media relating to St Pancras Cruising Club. • Records of donations. • Information about our relationship with you, correspondence, meeting notes, attendance at events etc. • Occupation, skills and professional activity, network(s) and interests where relevant to our needs. • Demographic, professional information and interests where these are relevant to our needs.
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Profiling Although we do not currently do this, we may in future use your data to group together people who have behaved, or might behave in similar ways. For example, we might find that people who had been to certain events were likely to come to similar events. If this was the case then we might “tag” your record to remind us to include you in invitations to similar events or to assess the likelihood that you might come to another type of event. You have a specific right to ask us not to do this. If you would prefer us not to, then please contact us using any of the contact details below.
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Protecting your data We keep your data secure in our database with appropriate security mechanisms in place. In principle we do not share your data with anyone else or any other organisation unless it is necessary for the purpose for which you have given us the data or described in this notice. Examples are given below: • Basic information on event participants may be shared with Canal and River Trust, Heritage of London Trust Operations Ltd, or people helping organise events, if necessary. • We may pass data to other organisations, known as Data Processors, to provide specific services to us. An example would be providing data to a mailing house in order to send a newsletter. A contract is always in place with a Data Processor, and they are not allowed to do anything with your data other than that which we have requested. In these cases we never lose legal control of your data.
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Our responsibilities The law requires us to tell you the legal basis upon which we process your data. • The law allows us to process your data if it is in our legitimate interest to do so. We may only do so if we can demonstrate an operational need, and so long as your “interests or your fundamental rights and freedoms are not overriding”. Practically speaking this means we carry out an exercise to check that we will not cause you harm by processing your data, that the processing is not overly intrusive and that we will only do so in a way which is described in this privacy notice. • Other activities are carried out to fulfil a contract or agreement. Examples include the purchase of a ticket or membership. If a contract is in place then we will process your data based on that contract. • In some circumstances the law requires us to record information and possibly disclose it to a third party. An example is the sale of gas oil to the owner of a private pleasure craft; here we are required by HMRC to record the name and address of the purchaser. • Some activities require your consent. If the law requires your consent to process data in a certain way then we will obtain it before carrying out that activity.
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How long do we keep your data? We will keep data for as long as is needed to complete the task for which it was collected. Relationships between members and St Pancras Cruising Club are often long term ones, and so we expect to keep your data for as long as that relationship exists, or until we no longer need it.
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Your rights You have a variety of rights about the way we process your data. These are as follows: • Where our use of your data requires consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time. • Where we rely on our legitimate interest to process data, you may ask us to stop doing so. • You may request a copy of the data we hold about you. • If we are carrying out profiling, you may ask us not to do so. • You may change or stop the way in which we communicate with you or process data about you, and if it is not required for the purpose you provided it, then we will do so. Activities like processing gas oil purchasing may mean we cannot entirely stop processing your data. We will always endeavour to comply with such a request, however. • If you are not satisfied with the way we have processed your data then you can complain to the Office of the Information Commissioner.
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Contacting us If you have any questions about this privacy notice, about the way in which we process your data, or if you wish to change the way we use your data, including how we communicate with you, then please write to Data Protection Officer, St Pancras Cruising Club, St Pancras Yacht Basin, Camley Street, London N1C 4PN, or email:
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Angel Canal Festival 2023
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The Angel Canal Festival 2023 will take place on Sunday 3rd September around City Road Basin in Islington.
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City Road Basin can be accessed from City Road (near the Texaco garage), and from Noel Road, Vincent Terrace and Graham Street.
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The fun starts at 11am and the festival closes at 4pm. There’ll be music, food, boat trips and stalls. Come and join us!
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For more information please email angelfestival@stpancrascc.co.uk
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The Angel Canal Festival is organised by a small team of individuals and supported by the Canal and River Trust, Islington Council and St Pancras Cruising Club.
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Collinson competition entries 2023
To view an entry please click on the thumbnail, which will open the photograph in a new window.
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rnPhoto 1: Caledonian lunchbreak – Andy Clarke
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Photo 2: Dining on the Puffer – Andy Clarke
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Photo 3: Neptunes staircase – Andy Clarke RUNNER UP
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Photo 4: Returning from New Years Eve cruise – Bob Hazell
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Photo 5: St Pancras Lock – Bob Hazell
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Photo 6: First Christmas for the new club house – Bob Hazell
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Photo 7: Sunset over Sausea at Essex Marina – Bob Hazell
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Photo 8: Colour on the cut – Bob Hazell
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Photo 9: A photo from the Thames in august – Claire Manson
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Photo 10: Dec 2023 crew taking a rest – Icicle Cruise – David Leppard
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Photo 11: Feb 2023 Willowtree Cruise. Now that’s what I call a party – David Leppard
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Photo 12: Jan 1st 2023 crewing for Little Layla on the Icicle cruise – David Leppard
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Photo 13: June 2023 Stowaway for the Tideway Cruise – David Leppard
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Photo 14: Bar opens! – Frances Phasey
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Photo 15: Campaign in the rain – Frances Phasey
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Photo 16: Convoy discipline – Frances Phasey
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Photo 17: Moored puffer – Frances Phasey RUNNER UP
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Photo 18: Puffer monkeys – Frances Phasey
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Photo 19: Crew – Graeme Field
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Photo 20: Lock – Graeme Field
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Photo 21: River Severn – Graeme Field
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Photo 22: Sunset – Graeme Field
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Photo 23: Winter – Graeme Field
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Photo 24: Evening at the Water Point – Julie Clark
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Photo 25: A quiet retirement – Julie Clark
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Photo 26: Working Boats at Batchworth – Julie Clark
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Photo 27: Cavalcade 2023 – Julie Clark
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Photo 28: Ten club members go Puffing – Julie Clark
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Photo 29: Commodore figurehead on VIC 32 – Libby Bradshaw
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Photo 30: Gateway to Loch Oich – Libby Bradshaw
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Photo 31: Mooring at Foyers Pier, Loch Ness – Libby Bradshaw
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Photo 32: My cabin companions – Libby Bradshaw
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Photo 33: Which way up – Approaching Loch Oich – Libby Bradshaw
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Photo 34: 5 Heading for PoW – Mikki Rain
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Photo 35: Hard Day on the Locks! – Mikki Rain
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Photo 36: High Summer – Mikki Rain WINNER
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Photo 37: No. 1 Cavalcade Colour – Mikki Rain
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Photo 38: WID Gold – Mikki Rain
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Photo 39: Love it or hate it… – Nick Ford
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Photo 40: Untitled – Ollie Brown
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Photo 41: Untitled – Ollie Brown
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Photo 42: Lady Blatherwick in bloom! – Sallyann Ford
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Photo 43: Boring boating for dogs – Sallyann Ford
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Photo 44: 14th December campaign cruise – Sallyann Ford
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Photo 45: Winter Cruising waiting for the tide. Lovely time of companionship! – Sallyann Ford
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Photo 46: Winter sunset on the Great Ouse – Sallyann Ford
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Photo 47: Flagpole: St Pancras Cruising Club on Vic 32, Loch Ness , September 2023 – Sally How
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Photo 48: Tunnel: Maida Hill Tunnel, following James February 2023 – Sally How
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Photo 49: Dawn: Early Morning return from Teddington June 2023 – Sally How
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Photo 50: Paul Willett: Harbourmaster Wins Trial of Strength on Ducketts Cut July 2023 – Sally How
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Photo 51: Gairlochy Through the Hawsehole, Vic 32 September 2023 – Sally How
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rnPhoto 52: Bumper boats on the tideway – Tim Lewis
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Photo 53: Fulbourne on the Aylesbury Arm – Tim Lewis
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Photo 54: Safety briefing in a toilet! – Tim Lewis
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Photo 55: Three Mills aerial – Tim Lewis
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Photo 56: Welcome to Cavalcade – Tim Lewis
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BELL LANE CREEK and RIVER WANDLE
PCC NOTES ON VISITING THAMES CREEKS
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BELL LANE CREEK and RIVER WANDLE
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The creek is best tackled on a rising tide. The journey from Limehouse takes around one hour. High water at Bell Lane Creek is 30 minutes after High Water London Bridge. The creek is accessible for around 2 hours either side of high water. The optimum time to leave Limehouse is 2Y2 hours before High Water at London Bridge. This ensures adequate time to visit the creek and continue upstream to Brentford. Remember to keep to the right hand third of the river on your passage upstream to Wandsworth Bridge.
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The Creek, which is at the mouth of the River Wandle, was once used by lighters and sailing barges to service Wandsworth Town Wharf . This was particularly so after the adjacent MacMurray’s canal lock was closed in 1923, subsequently the Creek was used by pleasure craft. The entrance is in the southern bank of the river, one quarter of a mile upstream of Wandsworth Bridge and is located just beyond the western boundary of the West London Waste Transfer Site and Wharfs which are easily recognised by the lighters with the waste containers and the large mobile gantry cranes!
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Some ten years ago an impounding weir was constructed at the Creek Mouth. This acts as a ‘half tide’ sluice. The gate, situated between the Red and Green Marker Posts, which define the navigable channel ten metres wide, can be raised automatically when the tide falls to weir level to impound the remaining water in the Creek The Gate remains in the lowered position during high water to facilitate the transit of craft. The aim is to use this window to enter and leave the Creek.
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Navigators may wish to note that the Crest of the Weir is at 1.90 metres above OD, but the Cill level with the Gate Lowered is at 0.00 AOD, giving a minimum depth of water over the lowered gate sill of 1.90 metres in relation to the crest of the weir. The actual depth of water above the sill at any time is indicated on the gauge board attached to the river wall.
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By leaving Limehouse 2Y2 hours before HW LB, by the time you reach the Creek, there should be adequate depth over the gate to make the transit into the Creek. However, it is always wise to proceed slowly over the gate itself!
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The Creek is less than 14 mile in length and follows the Right Hand Fork just upstream of the entrance. Proceed slowly under the railway bridge and turn to the left to reach the creek end at Bell Weir. Depending on the length of craft, turning in the creek is possible, but sometimes it is necessary to reverse back to the bend to facilitate the turn.
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Proceed up the Creek, take your photos, and then return the way you came in, again taking care to slowly cross the gate area. The visit should take about 25 minutes overall.
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The onward journey to Brentford takes 114 hours and it is recommended that craft proceed upstream to Brentford Thames Lock which is open 2 hours either side of HW Brentford (one hour later than HW London Bridge).
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Please note, you will be arriving at Brentford around High Water. This will mean that headroom will be severely restricted under Brentford High Street Bridge. Take the centre of the arch and proceed with caution. The Gauging Lock ahead is User Operated with a CRT key.
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ALL BOATERS AND SKIPPERS ARE REMINDED THAT THEY UNDERTAKE THE CRUISES COMPLETELY AT THEIR OWN RISK. THE ST. PANCRAS CRUISING CLUB AND ITS OFFICERS CANNOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY FOR THE SAFETY OF CRAFT ON THE TIDAL THAMES
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