Winter 2013 - Issue 32
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The Winter 2013 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Famous Fleets
Wyvern Shipping
Alan Faulkner recounts the transition from a small commercial carrier to a successful hire boat operator
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Historical Profiles
The Underground Canals at Worsley
Mike Clarke explores some of the best known but least visited early canals
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Picturing the Past
Will King on the GU
David Blagrove looks through photographs of narrowboats taken in the late 1950s between London and Hemel Hempstead
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Historical Canal Maps
Shropshire Canal
Richard Dean uses maps to locate a long-lost waterway
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Picturing the Past
Three Bridges
Postcards in George Hancock's collection show a Lyons' tea promotion at Southall
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Traditional Techniques
Breaking the Ice
David Blagrove examines a particularly detailed print – of a well-known photograph of an ice breaker at Linford
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Last Traffic
Boating with the Purcells
Mike Stone journeyed up the Grand Union Canal in the summer of 1961 on a pair of Willow Wren boats
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Early Campaigning
Happy Valley
A look at canalside recreation on the Stratford Canal just south of Birmingham in the early 20th century
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From the Archives
Bradford Canal
Joseph Boughey finds a short length of canal that was converted into a railway in the 1920s
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