Tracing Family History
Thrupp Family Gathering
Chris M. Jones studies two images that reveal insights into an Oxford canal-boating family
This is our free-access sample article from the Spring 2023 NarrowBoat
Unearthing History
Power Shift
Mike Clarke looks at the early internal combustion engines used on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the progression from steam power in the 1880s to gas and diesel engines in the early 1900s.
Picturing the Past
T&M Tunnel Traffic
Stan Heaton photographed narrowboats working on the northern Trent & Mersey Canal in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Canals That Never Were
Linking Edinburgh and Glasgow
Jim Lonie explores seven proposals to connect Scotland’s two biggest cities by canal
