Spring 2009 - Issue 13
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The Spring 2009 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company
Mike Clarke discovers that this forward-looking northern canal company competed with the railways by running a successful fleet of wide boats serving a network of warehouses to a regular timetable
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
Grand Union Canal Part 2 Birmingham to Braunston
In the second part of his history of this busy canal, Alan Faulkner examines the route between Braunston and Birmingham
You can view an excerpt here.
Last Traffic
Wheat to Wellingborough
In a new series featuring some of the last regular cargoes on our waterways, and on the 40th anniversary of the last load, John Pyper recalls the narrowboats that brought grain from London to the Nene
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
Derbyshire Connections
Richard Dean looks at ambitious schemes to link the Peak Forest and Cromford canals with Chesterfield and Sheffield
You can view an excerpt here.
Tracing Family History
Early Boat Records: 1795 Act
Paul Sillitoe reveals how to trace early boat families - from the 1790s
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Last Traffics on the T&S: Coatesfield & Cirencester
One of the last traffics before the reconstruction in the early 1900s and one of the pioneering journeys after the work was completed
You can view an excerpt here.
