Winter 2012 - Issue 28
The Winter 2012 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Famous Fleets
Willow Wren Canal Carrying Co
Alan Faulkner looks at a company set up to prevent the total extinction of narrowboat carrying
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Historical Profiles
Chesterfield Canal
John Lower looks at a canal from the Trent that is both wide and narrow beam
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Canals That Never Were
Pontcysyllte Basin
Richard Dean brings together historical mapping of Pontcysyllte Basin and the Plas Kynaston Branch
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One Boat's Story
Duchess Countess
Harry Arnold looks at the search for the famous and long-surviving Shropshire Union Canal fly-boat
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Traditional Techniques
Marriott's Way & Other Passenger Boats
Hugh Potter follows a passenger boat journey by Pickfords from Liverpool to London in 1834 and looks at packet boats in general
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