Winter 2015 - Issue 40

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The Winter 2015 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.

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Front Cover: The W.J. Yarwood & Sons'-built motor boat Wye heads north on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towards Blackburn on a cold winter's day. The craft was one of three built by the company in 1947 for Canal Transport Ltd, set up in 1930 to take over carrying on the waterway, and the subject of this issue's Famous Fleets feature.

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Famous Fleets

Canal Transport Ltd

Alan Faulkner looks at the company set up in 1930 to take over carrying on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal

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Picturing the Past

Horse-boating in the 1920s

Chris M. Jones studies a series of photos showing horse-drawn craft at Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth Tunnel

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Traditional Techniques

Push Towing

Richard Courteney Lord documents an unusual way of singlehanding a pair of boats on the BCN

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Historical Canal Maps

Cruising Cartography

Richard Dean looks at the maps available to early leisure users of the waterways

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Working the Waterways

Boating through Rickmansworth

Chris M. Jones studies photos of a British Waterways pair on the Grand Union in around 1960

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Picturing the Past

Trip to Nottingham

Euan Corrie examines a rare collection of pictures showing horsedrawn carrying on the Midlands waterways in 1919

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From the Archives

Newspapers Online

Joseph Boughey explores the digital resources available to waterway historians and uncovers some fascinating stories

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Working the Waterways

Coal from Baddesley

Photos by Christopher Lunnon showing Samuel Barlow boats at Baddesley Colliery Wharf in 1960

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Time and Place

Sailing on the Thames

Chris M. Jones examines narrowboats under sail in an 1840s painting

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A Broader Outlook

The Sabrinas

Tom Foxon looks at the state-of-the-art dumb barges introduced to the River Severn in 1944

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