Winter 2007 - Issue 8
The Winter 2007 issue includes the following features. You can purchase this magazine from our online Shop.
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Historical Profiles
Trent & Mersey
Harry Arnold looks at one of the earliest, longest and arguably most important canals in England
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Famous Fleets
Ovaltine
Alan Faulkner gives a flavour of the history of one of the more colourful canal fleets operated by a company that used their narrowboats as floating advertisements
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Canals That Never Were
Manchester & Birmingham Junction Canal
Richard Dean traces the route of a canal planned to ‘cut off the corner’ between the Bridgewater and Shropshire Union canals
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A Broader Outlook
Lydney Canal
Stanley Holland looks at the short but significant Lydney Canal
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A Place in History
Aberdulais
In the first of a new series, Ian L Wright and Hugh Potter guide you round an area famous for its falls, waterwheel, aqueduct and canal junction
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Traditional Techniques
Breaking the Ice
TOM FOXON looks at one aspect of the weather that could seriously hinder boating, and recalls his personal experiences
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