Picturing the Past
Post-War Boating on the Grand Union
In the mid-1950s, Julian Thompson took a number of photographs of working boats on the Grand Union. This selection captures the penultimate decade of carrying in the south Midlands
Historical Profiles
Muck and Rubbish
Chris M. Jones looks at how canal boats were once used to carry sewage and refuse from major centres of population, like Birmingham and London, and the legislation that had to be adhered to
Traditional Techniques
Water Management
James Hewitt recalls the use of paddle trunks and box trunks
Canals That Never Were
Sheffield & Manchester Junction Canal
Richard Dean looks at an 1824 proposal for a 39 mile trans-Pennine waterway connecting Manchester and Sheffield.
