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?
Famous Fleets
T&S Element
Alan Faulkner looks at a fleet of narrowboats that operated mainly around Birmingham and the Black Country but also travelled further afield
Picturing the Past
Grand Union Traffic in Colour
We look at a selection of photos taken in the early 1960s by Brian Stroud showing commercial narrowboats on the Grand Union Canal
This is our free-access sample article from the Summer 2021 NarrowBoat.
Art of the Waterways
Livery Variations on Narrowboats
Christopher R Jones, assisted by Christopher M Jones, looks closely at ‘rose & castle’ painting from the southern Grand Junction Canal
