Autumn 2015 - Issue 39
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Famous Fleets
Seymour-Roseblade
Alan Faulkner looks at a young couple’s efforts to reintroduce canal carrying to Leicester in the 1960s
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Picturing the Past
A North-Western Miscellany
David Martin toured the north-west of England in the 1960s and took a variety of photographs of the remaining working narrowboats in the area
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Canals That Never Were
Leominster to Stourport
Richard Dean shows how the Leominster Canal intended to reach Stourport
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From the Archives
Linton Lock
Joseph Boughey explores Linton Lock through the West Yorkshire Archive
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Traditional Techniques
Crossing the Trent
How horse-boats tackled a tricky river junction
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Time and Place
Thames Traffic of the 19th Century
Chris M. Jones examines the craft depicted in a Victorian-era painting The Building of Westminster Bridge
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Life Afloat
Tom the Boater
A rare collection of photos showing the working boat scene of the early 1900s originally taken to illustrate a children's story.
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Picturing the Past
Heaton on the BCN
Stan Heaton’s photographs around the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the late 1950s and early 1960s when local traffic was still operating.
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