* British Waterways

* British Waterways ' leisure website-Britain's official guide to canals, rivers and lakes

However, some ten years later British Waterways started to relax the rule that a permit was required to give access to a towpath, and began to encourage leisure usage by walkers, anglers and in some areas, cyclists.

The concept of free access to towpaths is one of the proposals that will be enshrined in the legistation to transfer responsibility for the English and Welsh canals from British Waterways to the Canal & River Trust in 2012.

Not all towpaths are suitable for use by cyclists, but where they are, and the canal is owned by British Waterways, a permit is required.

The Grand Union Canal was nationalised in 1948, control transferring to the British Transport Commission, and in 1962 to the British Waterways Board, later British Waterways.

The double Thames Lock at Brentford acts as the demarcation point between the Thames, administered by the Port of London Authority, and the River Brent / Grand Union Canal, administered by British Waterways.

The project is supported by British Waterways, the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust, other waterways campaign groups, and also local councils.

The CRT is the charity which has taken over the work and role of British Waterways.

* British Waterways

British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom.

On 2 July 2012 all of British Waterways ' assets and responsibilities in England and Wales were transferred to the newly founded charity the Canal & River Trust.

In Scotland British Waterways continues to operate as a standalone public corporation under the trading name Scottish Canals.

The British Waterways Board was initially established as a result of the Transport Act 1962 and took control of the inland waterways assets of the British Transport Commission in 1963.

British Waterways was sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( DEFRA ) in England and Wales, and by the Scottish Government in Scotland.

British Waterways managed and maintained of canals, rivers and docks within the United Kingdom including the buildings, structures and landscapes alongside these waterways.

Due to the size of the canal network controlled, half of the United Kingdom population lives within five miles of a canal or river once managed by British Waterways.

In additional to the watercourses, British Waterways also cared for and owned 2, 555 listed structures including 70 Scheduled Ancient Monuments.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

* Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time ( British West Indies ):

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

Since Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the English ( British since the Act of Union in 1707 ) monarch.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.

In 1816 these masterpieces of western art, were acquired by The British Museum by Act of Parliament and deposited in the museum thereafter.

In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum.

A board of 25 trustees ( with the Director as their accounting officer for the purposes of reporting to Government ) is responsible for the general management and control of the Museum, in accordance with the British Museum Act 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.

The Museum has also argued that the British Museum Act of 1963 legally prevents any object from leaving its collection once it has entered it.

British Standards are one of the formal exceptions made to the Restrictive Trade Practices Act.

Demeritt ( 1995 ) argues that in British Columbia ( and Canada generally ), there were three overlapping agrarian viewpoints.

The Times reported on 6 November 1995 that Prince Charles had stated on that day to Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, after the funeral of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, that " Catholics should be able to ascend to the British throne ".

* 1995 – Colin Tapley, British actor ( b. 1907 )

* Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time ( 1995 ) – the genius in question was John Harrison, who spent decades trying to convince the British Admiralty of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining longitude when at sea in order to win the longitude prize.

In 1995 the show won Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards, with O ' Hanlon receiving Top TV Comedy Newcomer Award.

Category: 1995 British television programme debuts

* 1995 – Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher ( b. 1915 )

* Bartrum, Giulia, German Renaissance Prints, 1490 – 1550 ( London, British Museum Press, 1995 ), ISBN 0-7141-2604-7

Manx pounds per US $ 1: 0. 6092 ( January 2000 ), 0. 6180 ( 1999 ), 0. 6037 ( 1998 ), 0. 6106 ( 1997 ), 0. 6403 ( 1996 ), 0. 6335 ( 1995 ); the Manx pound is at par with the British pound

In 1995, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, at the time the Chief Scientific Adviser to the British government, requested that the organizers no longer award Ig Nobel prizes to British scientists, claiming that the awards risked bringing genuine experiments into ridicule.

In 1995, Nigel Short and Polgár were to play a game using the famous chess set, but British Museum refused.

* 1925 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist ( d. 1995 )

Jeepster Records is a London, England-based independent record label, founded in 1995, and specialising in British indie and alternative bands-particularly Glasgow-based acts.

* Shugo Asano, Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro ( British Museum Press, London, 1995 )

Until 1995 it was the standard access software provided by British dial-up internet service provider Demon Internet.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

In 1995, Mozambique joined the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming, at the time, the only member nation that had never been part of the British Empire.

* 1921 – Jack Clayton, British film director ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – 33-year-old British mother Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.

* 1995 – Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist ( b. 1900 )

* 1914 – Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot ( d. 1995 )

* 1933 – Ronald " Ronnie " Kray, British gangster and murderer ( d. 1995 )

* 1911 – Sir Michael Hordern, British actor ( d. 1995 )

* 1918 – Charles Evans, British mountaineer ( d. 1995 )