Spring 2018 - Issue 49
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Front Cover: One of Fellows, Morton & Clayton's steamers was Sultan, an iron composite boat built at its Saltley Dock on the Birmingham & Warwick Junction Canal near Birmingham in June 1899. She would have been a regular sight on the Grand Junction Canal.
The Spring 2018 issue includes the following features.
Famous Fleets
Steam Narrowboats of Fellows, Morton & Clayton
Alan Faulkner charts the rise and fall of one of the best-known steam-powered canal-carrying fleets.
You can view an excerpt here.
Working the Waterways
Timber Carrying on the Waterways
Chris M. Jones explores the carriage of timber by boat – one of the most useful and adaptable materials transported by canal and river craft.
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
Grand Western Canal
Richard Dean reveals the intentions of the original promoters in creating a sea-to-sea route across the South West peninsular to avoid the dangerous passage around Land’s End.
You can view an excerpt here.
Time and Place
Stone Boating at Foxton
Chris M. Jones examines the details of a c1908 image showing narrowboats carrying roadstone at Foxton on today’s Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal.
You can view an excerpt here.
Life Afloat
Memories of Horse-drawn Boating
Graham Guest provides personal recollections of working horse-boats on the BCN as a youth in the late 1950s and early ’60s
You can view an excerpt here.
From the Archives
Welsh Journals Online
Joseph Boughey finds some interesting details about the waterways on a free online archive from Wales, much of which relates to the Montgomeryshire Canal.
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
British Waterways Boating
Another delve into Patrick Rawlinson’s colour photo archive shows British Waterways boats Purton and Capella at work at Buckby on the Grand Union Canal in the 1950s.
You can view an excerpt here.
Last Traffic
Fellows, Moreton & Clayton Steamers: Postscript
Chris M. Jones looks at the circumstances and boat, FMC’s Earl, that brought an end to narrowboat steamer traffic.
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Newsprint Photographs on the Grand Junction
Chris M. Jones delves through a collection of published images showing canal-carrying in south-east England during the early years of the 20th century.
You can view an excerpt here.
