Summer 2013 - Issue 30
The Summer 2013 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Famous Fleets
The Warwickshire Canal Carrying Co
Christopher M. Jones & Alan Faulkner relate the story of a company born out of transport and supply problems arising from the First World War, and which continued carrying until the 1950s
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Historical Profiles
River Weaver
Colin Edmondson traces the story of Cheshire’s main navigation, which goes back almost 300 years
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Last Traffic
Last Horse on the BCN
Hugh Potter photographed Caggy Steven’s horse ‘Mac’ at workon the Birmingham Canal Navigations
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Historical Canal Maps
Caledonian Canal
Richard Dean follows the building of the canal on an 1915 map
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Picturing the Past
Jean's Plan
Mike Constable previews a rare post-war canal-based film
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Picturing the Past
Ancient & Modern
David Blagrove studies three slides taken by Mike Stone in 1961 that show both ‘traditional’ and ‘improved’ narrowboats
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Last Traffic
Hardy to Banbury
David Blagrove looks at photographs taken by David Martin when carrying coal to Banbury in the early 1960s
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