Autumn 2018 - Issue 51
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Front Cover: The only motor-boat in J. & G. Meakin’s small fleet was Alice, which was converted from a horse-drawn craft in 1944. Here she is underway on the River Weaver, carrying china stone loaded at Weston Point docks en route to the Anderton Lift.
The Autumn 2018 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
Two Trent & Mersey Carriers
Pottery and chemicals manufacture are two of the most well known industries of the North West. Chris M. Jones looks at two manufacturers who used their own small fleets of narrowboats - Brunner Mond & Co and J. & G. Meakin Ltd
You can view an excerpt here.
Working the Waterways
Inspection Boats
Part One of Cath Turpin's exploration of the variety of craft once used to survey the condition of the inland waterways.
You can view an excerpt here.
Working the Waterways
The Tooleys at Banbury
Matthew Armitage, managing director of Tooley’s Boatyard, has recently published a history of the Oxford Canal site. In this extract, he describes the Tooley family’s long involvement with the Banbury premises.
You can view an excerpt here.
A Broader Outlook
Barging From the Port of Rye
Chris M. Jones looks at an early 1900s image showing a Rye barge on one of several inland navigations that once ran into the River Rother in Kent.
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
Ludlow & Montgomery
Richard Dean details a proposal for a lengthy canal opening up navigation through the Welsh Marches.
You can view an excerpt here.
Working the Waterways
Coal to Sandford Mill
Chris M. Jones studies the history of one of the many paper mills on the upper Thames and the traffic that served it.
You can view an excerpt here.
Time and Place
Sent to Coventry
Chris M. Jones examines the details of two rare 19th-century photos of boats moored on the Coventry Canal.
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Summer at Stoke Bruerne
Another delve through Patrick Rawlinson’s archive shows working boats passing through the famous canal village in the 1950s.
You can view an excerpt here.
