Spring 2014 - Issue 33
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The Spring 2014 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Famous Fleets
T&S Element
Alan Faulkner looks at a fleet of narrowboats that operated mainly around Birmingham and the Black Country but also travelled further afield
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Life Afloat
George Hancock's Family Album
NarrowBoat takes a look through the photographs of a boating family based in Leighton Buzzard on the Grand Union Canal
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Picturing the Past
Around St Pancras
Photographs from the late 1950s show the change from working boats to pleasure boats on the Regent's Canal
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Canals That Never Were
Reaching North
Richard Dean traces the route changes in Westmorland that eventually brought the Lancaster Canal to Kendal
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Traditional Techniques
Glamorganshire Weighing Machine
Stephen Rowson looks at a weighing machine for checking the amount of cargo carried by boats in South Wales and compares it to the other known examples on British canals
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Last Traffic
Bulls Bridge Lay-by
DAVID BLAGROVE looks at photographs taken by MALCOLM FLETCHER in early 1962
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