Autumn 2023 - Issue 71

The Autumn 2023 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Front Cover: On a sunny autumn day, coal-laden boat Shahzada makes its way south to a coal merchant’s wharf.

Historical Profiles
The Mill Job
Chris M. Jones studies the coal traffic carried by boatmen-contractors to the papermills of John Dickinson & Co Ltd
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Working the Waterways
Lighterman Laurie Dews
David Lewis explores the life of North East lighterman Laurie Dews, who recently passed away aged 100
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Historical Profiles
Edwardian Expansion of Manchester Docks
A new book explores the 1905 opening of the vast Dock No 9 at the terminus of the Manchester Ship Canal
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A Broader Outlook
Craft of the North-East
Chris M. Jones studies a series of images showing wide-beam vessels on the waterways of North-East England
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Canals That Never Were
Lincolnshire Link
Richard Dean examines waterway schemes to connect the Midlands with Lincolnshire
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Picturing the Past
Between Dock and Canal
Chris M. Jones studies a series of images illustrating the navigation of canal craft around various docks
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Historical Profiles
Forget-Me-Not
Chris M. Jones looks into the history of a single narrowboat that was photographed several times during its working life.
This is our free-access sample article from the Autumn 2023 NarrowBoat
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Time and Place
The Port of Leeds in 1960
Ken Matthews captured this selection of photographs of central Leeds in 1960
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