Winter 2022 - Issue 68
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Front Cover: This boat, owned by John Walley of Stoke-on-Trent, is tied up temporarily while their horse is shoed at a local smithy. Before long they will be on their way, working well into the evening just in case there is a build-up of heavy snow or an overnight frost, which could imprison their boat in ice before it reaches its destination.
The Winter 2022 issue includes the following features.
Historical Profiles
Traffic on the Oxford
Chris M. Jones studies images that reflect the types of commercial traffic on the Oxford Canal
You can view an excerpt here.
A Broader Outlook
Burton's 18th-century Navigation
John Dylan Parry tells the story of the Upper Trent Navigation and Burton Boat Co, which predated the construction of the Trent & Mersey Canal
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
Fellows, Morton & Clayton Steamers
Andy Tidy explores images of steam-powered narrowboats operated by the famous carrying company
You can view an excerpt here.
From the Archives
Insights into the Erewash
Joseph Boughey unearths details of the East Midlands canal from newspaper archives
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Canal Maps
Consall New Lock?
Richard Dean investigates a puzzle on the Caldon Canal
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
A Bantam on the BCN
Andy Tidy explores details of photos showing the latter days of commercial activity on Birmingham’s canals
You can view an excerpt here.
Historical Profiles
Oxfordshire Ironstone
Chris M. Jones uncovers a little-known traffic on the Oxford Canal
You can view an excerpt here.
Picturing the Past
Sights of the Birmingham Canal Navigations
Chris M. Jones looks at another selection of BCN images from the 19th and 20th centuries
You can view an excerpt here.
Working the Waterways
Winter on the Waterways
Ex-working boater John Saxon passed away in 2022. We revisit his evocative account of operating cargo-carrying narrowboats during the cold season, originally published in a 1977 issue of Waterways World magazine
You can view an excerpt here.
Last Traffic
Final days of BW on the Grand Union
Chris M. Jones studies a series of photos of Fenny Stratford in 1963
You can view an excerpt here.
