Spring 2019 - Issue 53
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Front Cover: On a misty spring day Gordon Hall Waddington’s motor Seagull is loaded with aluminium and being worked single handed. She was built by W. J. Yarwood & Sons Ltd at Northwich for carriers W.H. Cowburn & Cowpar Ltd of Manchester in January 1935. Her hull was all steel with a wooden cabin and she was fitted with a long cylindrical tank to carry carbon disulphide to Coventry and Wolverhampton.
Famous Fleets
George Hall Waddington
Famous fleets Chris M. Jones and Euan Corrie look at the activities of a north-western narrowboat carrier of the 1950s
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Historical Profiles
Boating to Braunston
Located at the junction of the Grand Union and Oxford canals, Braunston thrived on its canal trade for over 150 years. Chris M. Jones looks back
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A Broader Outlook
Keels at Keadby
A broader outlook Chris M. Jones studies early 20th-century images showing traffic on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation and River Trent at Keadby
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Picturing the Past
Blue Line at Marsworth
Two evocative colour images from Jack Parkinson’s collection show canal-carrying on the Grand Union in the mid-‘60s
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Working the Waterways
Britain at Work
Chris M. Jones explores the details of waterway photographs published in an early 20th-century book
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From the Archives
Charles Hadfield and the World Canals Collection
Joseph Boughey examines the public archives of well-known canal historian Charles Hadfield
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Tracing Family History
The Preston Family of Middlewich
Mary Kelly explores her family’s long involvement with inland boating in the North West
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Canal Curios
Isabella Salt's Chest
A decorative boatwoman’s box has museum staff scratching their heads. SARAH HENSHAW finds out more
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Canals that never were
Settle and Ingleton
RICHARD DEAN describes canal proposals in the Craven area of Yorkshire
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Picturing the Past
Single Horse-boating on the Grand Junction
Two images taken before WWI provide a glimpse into an age when towing a single loaded boat by horse from Brentford to Birmingham was all in a day’s work for experienced boaters
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