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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 2022 NarrowBoat

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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.

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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

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Canals That Never Were

Linking Edinburgh and Glasgow

Jim Lonie explores seven proposals to connect Scotland’s two biggest cities by canal

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Stone Boating

Chris M. Jones looks at the carriage of granite for use on roads, mostly quarried in the Hartshill area around the Coventry Canal

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