Winter 2006 - Issue 4
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The Winter 2006 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Famous Fleets
Midlands & Coast
Alan Faulkner looks at a leading but short-lived carrier whose narrowboats were mainly seen on the Shropshire Union Canal
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Art of the Waterways
20th Century Needlework & Clothes of the Cut
Avril Lansdell looks at spider-web belts and other distinctive clothes that boaters wore
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Historical Profiles
Leeds & Liverpool
Mike Clarke looks at the last trans-Pennine canal to be completed
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Picturing the Past
Alexander's Album
David Blagrove looks through Walter Alexander’s photographs of Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth
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Tracing Family History
Paper Trail
Lorna York goes on a 'Paper Trail' to trace her boating ancestors
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A Broader Outlook
Dracone on the Severn
Mike Taylor looks at a novel way of transporting liquids on the River Severn
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Living History
Weaver Milepost
Colin Edmondson discovers history in the hedgerow of the River Weaver
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Canals That Never Were
The Ellesmere Canal to Shrewsbury
Richard Dean on the never-built canal from Ellesmere to Shrewsbury
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