Spring 2007 - Issue 5
The Spring 2007 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Historical Profiles
Shropshire Union Canal
Peter Brown looks at the canal that rated Number One in a recent poll of favourite waterways
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Famous Fleets
Fellows, Morton & Clayton
Alan Faulkner begins the story of the most famous fleet of all on the UK’s inland waterways, including their innovative steam narrowboats
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Art of the Waterways
A View of the Landscape
Canal artist Brian Collins looks at the curious tradition of painting castles on, and in, narrowboats
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Canals That Never Were
Colne and Todmorden
Richard Dean investigates plans for what would have been a spectacular canal to link the Rochdale with the Leeds & Liverpool
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Tracing Family History
Canal Boat Registers
Christopher M Jones takes a closer look at a valuable source of family history information about boats and the people that operated them
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Living History
Ffrwd Folly?
Richard Dean investigates whether an isolated fragment of the Ellesmere Canal was ever used by boats
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