Summer 2018 - Issue 50
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Front Cover: This view from the stern of a Humber keel shows what a wide expanse of river the Trent could seem when down at water level. In the distance, the company's steam tug Little John, is towing a Humber keel downriver towards Newark.
The Summer 2018 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
The Trent Navigation Company
Alan Faulkner studies the carrying arm of The Trent Navigation Company (Additional material supplied by Chris M. Jones)
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Bow-hauling at Swinton Bridge
Chris M. Jones looks at the history of a humber keel depicted in an early 20th-century photo of the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation
You can view an excerpt here.
Last Traffic
Documenting the Decline
Tom Chaplin discusses photos showing the latter days of canal-carrying, which feature in his recently published history of narrowboats
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Canal Maps
Re-rerouting at Rednal
Richard Dean investigates a Shropshire mystery
You can view an excerpt here.
From the Archives
The Motor Boat Magazine
Joseph Boughey delves through a collection of early 20th-century magazines to uncover details of commercial and pleasure boating of the period
You can view an excerpt here.
Working the Waterways
Black-Sailed Traders of the Broads
Mike Sparkes explores the history of the once-ubiquitous wherries that carried cargoes on the waterways of Norfolk and Suffolk
You can view an excerpt here.
One Boat's Story
In Celebration of Raymond
Raymond, the last wooden working narrowboat built at Braunston, celebrates its 60th this year. We look at images of her taken between 1958 and ’70 when she was in service as a commercial-carrying boat
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Sights of the Birmingham Canal Navigations
Chris M. Jones studies early images of the BCN and its once flourishing canalside industries
You can view an excerpt here.
