The Spring 2012 issue of NarrowBoat, on sale from 29th March, will include features on . . . 

Basil Jeuda looks at a fleet based at Runcorn and serving the Potteries 

Alan Faulkner explores the history of one of London’s best-known waterways on the 200th anniversary of its authorising Act of Parliamnet

Through an extensive series of postcards, many only recently rediscovered, Richard Thomas investigates the 1923 boatmen's strike and the man who photographed it 

Richard Dean details an early proposal to extend the Thames & Severn Canal to Abingdon and thus by-pass the notorious upper reaches of the River Thames, and reduce the distance from Lechlade to Abingdon by half

Photographs from the Ray family albums, mostly taken when working for Fellows, Morton & Clayton, including some rare images of the northern Grand Union Canal before widening.