Winter 2010 - Issue 20
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The Winter 2010 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
John Walley
Alan Faulkner looks at a small operator that specialised in carrying flints to the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal
Hugh Conway-Jones examines one of Britain’s few ‘ship canals’ – a popular destination for leisure boaters today
You can view an excerpt here.
Working the Waterways
Christmas on the Cut
John Pyper considers hand-made cards sent by the wartime trainees – the ‘Idle Women’ – and trainer Kit Gayford’s diary entries for Christmas 1942
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
Western Junction Canal
Richard Dean looks at a project to link the Grand Junction with the Wilts & Berks – a scheme which might yet have a future!
You can view an excerpt here.
A Broader Outlook
Tug Brent
The story of a new tug being built and trialled in the late 1920s for the Grand Junction Canal Co
You can view an excerpt here.
Last Traffic
Blue Line
David Blagrove looks through Terry Putnam’s colourful photographs of boats carrying coal from Atherstone to the “Jam ’ole” at Southall, the last regular long-distance narrowboat traffic on the canals that ceased 40 years ago
You can view an excerpt here.
Traditional Techniques
Leighton Buzzard in the 1930s
In an online auction, Ray Butler won a set of negatives showing remarkable detail of “workaday boats and boaters doing workaday things”, and giving an insight into the way boats were worked on the ‘Junction’ in the late 1920s and early 1930s
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
T&M Tunnel Traffic
Stan Heaton photographed narrowboats working on the northern Trent & Mersey Canal in the late 1950s and early 1960s
You can view an excerpt here.
A Place in History
An Early Tube Boat Canal
Colin Bristow rediscovers the 18th century Carclaze–Scredda canal system in Cornwall
You can view an excerpt here.
