The Spring 2008 issue of NarrowBoat included the following features.Basingstoke Canal
Paul Vine takes a detailed look at a once privately owned canal, now restored and in local authority care, but whose future is again uncertainThe Anderton Company
Alan Faulkner on a leading Trent & Mersey carrier that had almost 200 narrowboats in its fleetEnterprise at Reading
David Blagrove recalls how narrowboats played a major role in promoting the restoration of the Kennet & Avon Canal with the launch of a trip boat service 50 year agoTaking Their Toll
Christopher M. Jones investigates the complex ways by which carriers were charged for using the canalsThames Bypass
Richard Dean details Brindley’s scheme for a canal from Isleworth through Slough to near MaidenheadOrder a back issue online - click here for our shop.