Spring 2006 - issue 1

The first issue of NarrowBoat covered the following topics:










Art of the Waterways

Tony Lewery ponders on the origins of today's canal painting

Famous Fleets

Alan Faulkner commemorates 40 years since Thomas Clayton's ceased trading

Historical Profile

Ian Langford on the Staffs & Worcs Canal - one of our earliest and most complete original narrow canals

Canals That Never Were

Richard Dean goes 'back to the drawing board' to find canals to Watford and St Albans

Plus articles on Spoon Dredging; the Manchester Ship Canal in 1963; Boating Genealogy; Severn Boats... and all the NarrowBoat regulars.

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