Historical Profiles
The Life and Times of Josiah Clowes
Roger Butler provides the story of an influential but largely forgotten canal engineer
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Canals That Never Were
Reaching North
Richard Dean traces the route changes in Westmorland that eventually brought the Lancaster Canal to Kendal
Historical Profiles
Looking into the Distance
Chris M. Jones studies an 18th-century document containing several distance tables
Last Traffic
Town Gas on the Canals
Andy Tidy traces the demise of the town gas industry, one of the last bulk canal cargoes
Working the Waterways
Testing the BCN
Christopher R. Jones follows an official examination trip undertaken by his boating ancestor, Edward James King, for the BCN during the summer of 1923 to identify work needed to clear the maintenance backlog that resulted from government control of the canals during The First World War.
Canal Postcards
The Great Storm of 1904
Trevor Ellis examines how postcards captured a freak weather event on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in the early 20th century
