Autumn 2024 - Issue 75

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Front Cover: A GWR maintenance narrowboat, loaded with stone chippings, is shafted towards Keynsham Lock from downstream on the Kennet & Avon Navigation.

Historical Profiles

Navigating the Upper Severn

Andy Tidy looks at how trade on Britain’s longest river once continued from Stourport up to Shrewsbury

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A Broader Outlook

Craft of the Thames

Chris M. Jones examines images showing various types of boats working on the tidal Thames

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Historical Profiles

Albright & Wilson’s Chemical Arm

Andy Tidy explores the important canal connections of an Oldbury-based chemical manufacturer 

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Historical Profiles

The Knottingley & Goole Canal

Chris M. Jones looks at some of the traffic on the eastern section of the Aire & Calder Navigation

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Picturing the Past

On the Western K&A

Chris M. Jones studies two images of the Kennet & Avon that reveal details of trade near Bristol

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Picturing the Past

Between Staffs and Notts

Chris M. Jones explores images showing boats and cargoes carried between Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire 

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Picturing the Past

Commercial Carrying in Yorkshire

Chris M. Jones looks at two images from the Jack Parkinson Collection showing commercial traffic on the waterways of Yorkshire in 1966 

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Canals That Never Were

Avoiding the Aire & Calder

Richard Dean illustrates attempts to break a Yorkshire monopoly

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