Spring 2012 - Issue 25
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The Spring 2012 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
Potter & Son
Basil Jeuda looks at a fleet based at Runcorn and serving the Potteries
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
Regent's Canal
Alan Faulkner explores the history of one of London’s best-known waterways on the 200th anniversary of its authorising Act of Parliament
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Braunston Strike & the 'H' Numbers
Through an extensive series of postcards, many only recently rediscovered, Richard Thomas investigates the 1923 boatmen's strike and the man who photographed it
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
Thames & Severn Extension
Richard Dean details an early proposal to extend the Thames & Severn Canal to Abingdon and thus by-pass the notorious upper reaches of the River Thames, and reduce the distance from Lechlade to Abingdon by half
You can view an excerpt here.
Life Afloat
Ray Family Album
Photographs from the Ray family albums, mostly taken when working for Fellows, Morton & Clayton, including some rare images of the northern Grand Union Canal before widening.
You can view an excerpt here.
