Autumn 2013 - Issue 31

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The Autumn 2013 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.

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Famous Fleets

Severn & Canal

Hugh Conway-Jones pays tribute to the chocolate magnate’s championing of waterway transport, using newly digitised images from the Railway & Canal Historical Society’s archive

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Working the Waterways

The Birmingham Canal Boat Registers

Illustrated by photographs of Birmingham-registered boats, Chris M. Jones discovers how George Smith’s Canal Boats Act of 1877 was implemented

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Historical Profiles

The Great Ouse

Alan Faulkner explores the history of this navigation and its involvement in the drainage of the Fens

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Canals That Never Were

London & Cambridge Junction Canal

Richard Dean looks at schemes over many years to join the rivers Stort and Cam

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Last Traffic

The Lime Juice Run

David Blagrove looks through photographs of one of the very last regular narrowboat traffics

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Famous Fleets

Barlow's Joeys

Christopher M. Jones and Christopher R. Jones look at an important but often neglected type of narrowboat operation

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Traditional Techniques

Lifting Heavy Loads

Euan Corrie looks at how heavy weights were lifted in the days before mechanical handling

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From the Archives

Archives Pick & Choose

Joseph Boughey discovers a ‘secret’ report in the National Archives that would have had devastating effects on our waterways if implemented

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