The Winter 2006 issue of NarrowBoat included . . .

Alan Faulkner looks at a leading but short-lived carrier whose narrowboats were mainly seen on the Shropshire Union Canal

Avril Lansdell looks at spider-web belts and other distinctive clothes that boaters wore

Mike Clarke looks at the last trans-Pennine canal to be completed

David Blagrove looks through Walter Alexander’s photographs of Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth

Mike Taylor looks at a novel way of transporting liquids on the River Severn . . . 

Colin Edmondson discovers history in the hedgerow of the River Weaver . . . 

Richard Dean on the never-built canal from Ellesmere to Shrewsbury 

. . . and we discover a canal built to England's narrow canal gauge - in Austria!