Traditional Techniques
Taking Their Toll
Christopher M. Jones investigates the complex ways by which carriers were charged for using the canals
One Boat's Story
Duchess Countess
Harry Arnold looks at the search for the famous and long-surviving Shropshire Union Canal fly-boat
Picturing the Past
Passing Through Middlewich
Two images from the Jack Parkinson Collection show a pair of British Waterways boats at Middlewich in 1964
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Canals That Never Were
Pontcysyllte to Chester
Richard Dean details the Ellesmere Canal’s missing northerly link to the city of Chester. But why was it never built?
