Spring 2006 - Issue 1
The Spring 2006 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Art of the Waterways
Roses Revival
Tony Lewry looks back to explore the origins of today’s canal painting
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Famous Fleets
Thomas Clayton Ltd
Alan Faulkner commemorates exactly 40 years since one of the canal’s best known companies ceased carrying by water
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Historical Profiles
Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal
Ian Langford on the Staffs & Worcs Canal - one of our earliest and most complete original narrow canals
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Canals That Never Were
Watford & St Albans
Richard Dean looks at waterway projects that were left on the drawing board
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Traditional Techniques
Spoon Dredging
Tom Foxon looks at a primitive method of dredging that lasted into the 1950s
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Tracing Family History
Consulting Certificates: Tracing birth, death, marriage certificates
Lorna York looks at documents that help you track down your boating ancestors
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Picturing the Past
Runcorn
Picturing the Past Euan Corrie looks at the Manchester Ship Canal
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A Broader Outlook
Boats, Barges & Trows: On Upper Severn
Barrie Trinder on the vessels of the Upper Severn Navigation
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