Winter 2014 - Issue 36
The Winter 2014 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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A Broader Outlook
Watts Album
Christopher M Jones through a collection of diverse photographs of mainly widebeam boats from the London area, about which little else is known
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Famous Fleets
Threefellows Carrying
Alan Faulkner looks at a company set up in 1971 to continue narrowboat carrying after the demise of Willow Wren and Blue Line
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Picturing the Past
Will King in the Midlands
Another selection of the photographs of T.W. King taken whilst he was working as a toll clerk on the Birmingham Canal Navigations
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Life Afloat
Sister Mary Ward
Jenny Glynn tells the remarkable story of how a painting of her family with the famous boat people’s nurse at Stoke Bruerne came into her possession
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Historical Canal Maps
Pickford Perspective
This well-known company once carried extensively on the canals, as shown by an advertising map from around 1825
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Last Traffic
Clayton's at Oldbury
A selection of photographs taken by Neil Clayton around the end of carrying by this well-known company
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Traditional Techniques
Raising Monnow
Laurence Hogg recalls raising the last Clayton boat sunk at Oldbury
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Traditional Techniques
The Grand Union Boat Control System
David Blagrove explains how boats were monitored on the waterways between the Midlands and London
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Picturing the Past
On a Carousel
A selection of slides discovered in the NarrowBoat office including Blue Line, Clayton's, Barry Lycett and British Waterways
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