Winter 2019 - Issue 56
The Winter 2019 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
You can read the articles in this and all other NarrowBoat issues online by becoming a NarrowBoat subscriber.
Front Cover: In the article "Boating Through Boxmoor" one of the boats shown is Valiant, which was originally paired with Benjamin under ownership of John Franks, for whom Benjamin was built in 1895. The colour scheme shown is guesswork as no information about its actual livery has come to light. After John Franks death in 1904, his boats were worked by his son Benjamin Franks until they were bought by Chance Brothers and then acquired by L.B. Faulkner in the early 1920s.
Working the Waterways
The Cost of Carrying
Chris M. Jones looks at the many financial overheads associated with canal carrying
View an excerpt.
A Broader Outlook
Postcards from the Huddersfield Broad Canal
Trevor Ellis explores the details of 20th-century postcards depicting this West Yorkshire waterway
View an excerpt.
Canal Curios
Sutcliffe’s Sounding Gear
Sarah Henshaw investigates a canal precursor of the echo sounder
View an excerpt.
Historical Canal Maps
Manchester Docks
Richard Dean examines maps demonstrating the impact the Manchester Ship Canal had on the city and its waterways
View an excerpt.
Picturing the Past
Carrying at Cassio Bridge
Chris M. Jones studies three images of trade at Cassio Bridge Wharf
View an excerpt.
Historical Profiles
Boating Through Boxmoor
Chris M. Jones reveals the history behind two boats running light through Boxmoor Locks
View an excerpt.
From the Archives
Charles Hadfield and the British Canals Files
Joseph Boughey uncovers many opportunities for further research in the waterways files of well-known canal historian Charles Hadfield
View an excerpt.
Picturing the Past
Post-War Boating on the Grand Union
In the mid-1950s, Julian Thompson took a number of photographs of working boats on the Grand Union. This selection captures the penultimate decade of carrying in the south Midlands
View an excerpt.
Time and Place
Twin Tunnels at Smethwick
Andy Tidy explores Hugh Potter’s 1970s photo of major alterations being made to the BCN through the Galton Valley
View an excerpt.
Last Traffic
On the Grantham Canal
Chris M. Jones studies two images showing the latter days of carrying on this East Midlands waterway
View an excerpt.
Picturing the Past
Tar Boat Epilogue
Another two images taken by Jack Parkinson show Thomas Clayton boats in their final years of operation
View an excerpt.
From the Archives
Trouble in the Tunnel
Nigel C. Jefferies makes a fascinating discovery about a prolonged stand-off between boaters in a canal tunnel in 1851
View an excerpt.