Autumn 2022 - Issue 67
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Front Cover: On a quiet autumn evening in the late 1870s, owner-boatman John Bradshaw of Toll End steers his horse-drawn boat The Rose of Irvine. The earliest record for this boat is August 1867 when, named Rose, it was weighed by the Grand Junction Canal Co for George Skey of Wolverhampton, an iron, steel and iron ore merchant. At 69ft 6in long by 6ft 9in wide, Rose of Irvine was a smaller boat than usual. By the early 1870s it had passed to John Bradshaw, who renamed it.
The Autumn 2022 issue includes the following features.
Traditional Techniques
Canal Boats Under Sail
Chris M. Jones looks at the use of sail power by canal boats
You can view an excerpt here.
Last Traffic
Town Gas on the Canals
Andy Tidy traces the demise of the town gas industry, one of the last bulk canal cargoes
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
The Trent Connection
Chris M. Jones studies images of the canals that connect with the river Trent
You can view an excerpt here.
From the Archives
Acquiring A Carrier
Joseph Boughey continues his study of the fleet bought by BW from canal-carrier John Parke & Son in the early 1960s
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Basingstoke Canal Boats in World War I
Chris M. Jones looks at a photo of the Basingstoke Canal during World War I
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
Leeds & Liverpool Coal Traffic in Yorkshire
Davis Lowe, Mike Clarke and Chris Clegg comment on photos taken in 1954
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
London to Birmingham
Three images from the Jack Parkinson collection illustrate commercial freight traffic in the early 1960s between Birmingham and London
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
Flint Carriers of the Grand Junction Canal
Chris M. Jones looks at the little-known flint traffic carried over the Grand Junction Canal
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Willow Wren at Stoke Bruerne
During the 1960s Bob Bennett photographed two pairs of Willow Wren boats at the Grand Union village
You can view an excerpt here.
Canals That Never Were
The Worcester Canal, 1785
The birth of the Worcester & Birmingham Canal is explained by Richard Dean
You can view an excerpt here.
Time and Place
Caldwall Lock Cottage
Moz Copestake recalls two years spent living beside the Staffs & Worcs Canal in the 1960s
You can view an excerpt here.
