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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