Summer 2008 - Issue 10

The Summer 2008 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.

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Famous Fleets

Birmingham & Midland

Alan Faulkner looks at a company set up by enthusiasts in 1965 in an attempt to revive canal carrying

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Historical Profiles

The Monmouthshire Canal

Ian L. Wright looks at one of the two Welsh canals, today better known collectively as the ‘Mon & Brec'

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A Place in History

Foxton

Hugh Potter visits the dramatic flight of locks where once stood the famous inclined plane

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Preserving the Past

Valued National Asset

Head of Heritage Nigel Crowe examines British Waterways’ approach to its 2,600-plus historic structures

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Canals That Never Were

The Wirral

Richard Dean traces proposals for canals from Chester to Birkenhead, and Manchester to the Dee

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Tracing Family History

The Franks Family

Chris Butcher shares her family photographs and the story of their boating life as told by her uncle Benjamin Franks; and Christoper M. Jones looks at their story through boating records

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Life Afloat

A Tale of Two Classes: Education of canal boat children

Wendy Freer looks at the education of canal boat children at two London schools – Paddington and West Drayton

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