Spring 2013 - Issue 29
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The Spring 2013 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
Willow Wren Canal Transport Services
Following the Willow Wren article in this issue, Alan Faulkner investigates its successor – Willow Wren Canal Transport Services
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
River Nene
David Blagrove looks at a navigation that was nearly lost in the early 20th century
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Stoke Bruerne's 50th
Colour photographs of narrowboat traffic at the time that the Canal Museum was founded in spring 1963
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
Waterways Around Middlewich
Richard Dean on some proposed canal schemes in and around Middlewich that were never built - including a Foxton-style inclined plane
You can view an excerpt here.
Traditional Techniques
Loading at Holly Bank
W.L. Pace recalls how boats were loaded with coal at Holly Bank Basin on the Wyrley & Essington Canal
You can view an excerpt here.
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
You can view an excerpt here.
A Broader Outlook
Barging Around
David Martin’s career took him all around the country in the late 1950s and the 1960s, and he used the opportunity to photograph barges that were still at work on diverse navigations
You can view an excerpt here.
