Spring 2011 - Issue 21
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The Spring 2011 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
Charles Nelson
Chris M. Jones & Alan Faulkner look at the small cement-carrying fleet from Stockton that included both horse-drawn and steam-powered narrowboats
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
Huddersfield Narrow
As it celebrates its bicentenary, Keith Gibson looks at the shortest and highest of our trans-Pennine canals, revealing much new information about the boats that used it
You can view an excerpt here.
Traditional Techniques
Boxes by Boat
Hugh Potter reveals how the ubiquitous ‘container’ began life as a humble box on the British canals of the 18th century
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
Birmingham Bypass
Richard Dean details projects for improving the Birmingham Canal Navigations
You can view an excerpt here.
A Broader Outlook
Coal to Liverpool
Ian Moss photographed one of the last traffics on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal: from Crooke to Athol Street gas works
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Coal for Miss Terry
John Pyper rediscovers a now-lost navigation on the Kent/Sussex border that still offered a coal delivery service a hundred years ago
You can view an excerpt here.
