Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
amous Fleets: Severn & Canal a€ The Cadbury Years Hugh Conway-Jones pays tribute to the chocolate magnatea€ s championing of waterway transport, using newly digitised images from the Railway & Canal Historical Societya€ s archive Working on the Waterways: The Birmingham Canal Boat Register Illustrated by photographs of Birmingham-registered boats, Chris M. Jones discovers how George Smitha€ s Canal Boats Act of 1877 was implemented Historical Profile: The River Great Ouse Alan Faulkner explores the history of this navigation and its involvement in the drainage of the Fens Canals That Never Were: London & Cambridge Junction Richard Dean looks at schemes over many years to join the rivers Stort and Cam Last Traffics: The Lime Juice Run David Blagrove looks through photographs of one of the very last regular narrowboat traffics Famous Fleets: Barlowa€ s Joeys Christopher M. Jones and Christopher R. Jones look at an important but often neglected type of narrowboat operation Traditional Techniques: Lifting Heavy Loads Euan Corrie looks at how heavy weights were lifted in the days before mechanical handling From the Archives: Pick & Choose Joseph Boughey discovers a a€~secreta€ report in the National Archives that would have had devastating effects on our waterways if implemented
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