Norbury Virtual Festival

Norbury Junction today is quiet and peaceful when it was planned to be busy and noisy with the annual Norbury Canal Festival
You can’t be here, we can’t welcome you in person so we have called on our time machine to take you back to 2019, to remind you of what you are missing.
The event has been going for many years now and we also have some pictures of earlier years to give you a feeling for how it has entertained tens of thousands of visitors over the years.
Music is always a feature, with bands at the Junction Inn and, last year, on the wharf itself at Norbury.
Everything from Donkey rides to a local butcher selling pies and sausages, from a wildlife charity to a bric-a-brac stall.
This is a great family event and this year - if things had gone according to plan - another working boat - in fact two of them - the 1936 pair of working boats Bainton and Berkhamsted which have just been donated to the trust in an incredibly generous gesture by their owner Roger White.
We can give you a bit of a preview
They started their journey from the Grand Union Canal but only managed to get halfway to Norbury before the lockdown intervened.
The pair would have taken pride of place outside the Junction Inn but it wasn’t to be.
By next year’s festival they may look very different as Norbury Wharf’s experts and a team of Shrewsbury and Newport Canal Trust volunteers work to restore them.