The Winter 2011 issue of NarrowBoat – now on sale by postal subscription, from canalside shops and musuems, and from W.H. Smiths newsagents – contains features on . . .Famous Fleets: British Waterways South East Division
Alan
Faulkner looks at the creation of one of the biggest fleets of narrowboats
ever, following post-war nationalisation
Historical Profile: The Manchester Ship Canal
Geoff
Wheat traces the story of Britain’s biggest and once busiest waterway
Working on the Waterways: Memories Of Ellesmere Yard
Tom
Godwin talks to Harry Arnold about working on the Llangollen Canal in the
mid-20th century – a by-gone age when he felt part of ‘one big family’
Historical Canal Maps: Chesterfield Canal
Richard
Dean looks at the development of ideas for the Chesterfield Canal through a
range of early maps
Picturing The Past: Suttons Stop
DAVID BLAGROVE looks at some slides taken by SYD MITCHELL, probably all on the same day in early 1962. They depict Hawkesbury Junction, where the Coventry and Oxford canals meet, known to boatmen as ‘Suttons’ after a former toll clerk stationed here
Art of the Waterways: Mixing Oil and Water
Caroline Jones on how ‘roses and castles’ now appear in the same book as ‘old masters’