The Autumn 2011 issue of NarrowBoat included the following features.You can purchase back issues online - click here for our shop.
Famous Fleets: John Griffiths
Alan Faulkner investigates
John Griffiths’ business which operated a fleet of boats from a base at
Bedworth on the Coventry Canal
Historical Profile: Montgomery Canal
Peter Brown looks at the
curious history of a country waterway that is one of today’s longest running
restoration projects
Life Afloat: Sabey’s Wide Boats
Mark Pullinger looks through the Ray family album of rare
photographs of narrowboat-style wide craft at work in West London
Canals That Never Were: Berks & Hants Junction
Richard Dean traces proposals to link the Kennet & Avon
to the Basingstoke Canal
Picturing the Past: Traffic on the Weaver
Colin Edmondson looks through photographs taken on Cheshire’s major river navigation
throughout the 20th century
A Place in History: Tooley’s Boatyard
Hugh Potter discovers 220-year-old history in Banbury’s
modern shopping centre
Working on the Waterways: A Boatman’s Diary
Robert Davies reads the diaries of boatman Charlie Foster
who worked on some of the last short-haul traffics around Birmingham and the
Black Country