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
Last Traffic
Wheat to Wellingborough
In a series featuring some of the last regular cargoes on our waterways, John Pyper recalls the narrowboats that brought grain from London to the Nene until the last load in 1969.
Working the Waterways
J. H. Taylor of Chester
Andy Tidy explores the history of a builder of some of the first wooden leisure-boats of the post-war era
Historical Profiles
The Mill Job
Chris M. Jones studies the coal traffic carried by boatmen-contractors to the papermills of John Dickinson & Co Ltd
Working the Waterways
Transporting Tar in Brum
In 1952 a newspaper journalist stepped aboard a family-run narrowboat to record life on Birmingham’s canals
This is our free-access sample article from the Spring 2026 NarrowBoat
Picturing the Past
Eddie Hambridge's Family Album
We take a look through the fascinating collection of photographs of former boatman Eddie Hambridge, who can trace his family back through many generations on the canals
