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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Famous Fleets: James Hall Christopher M. Jones looks at a small north-western carrier based at Droylsden, on the Ashton Canal near Manchester Working on the Waterways: Church Collection Euan Corrie looks through some photographs from the album of Norman Hurst, whose family lived at Church Lock near Leighton Buzzard in the late 1950s Picturing the Past: Bob Maya€ s Photographs A look at some of the last local narrowboat traffics from the collection of a well-known West Midlands newspaper photographer and canal enthusiast Canals That Never Were: The Stirling Canal Richard Dean reveals how Stirling sought a link to Glasgow by a connection to the Forth & Clyde Canal Traditional Techniques: Cargo Packaging and Handling Tom Foxon and Christopher M. Jones look at how boats were loaded and unloaded over the years Picturing the Past: Stoke Bruerne Euan Corrie & David Blagrove look at postcards in George Hancock's collection which also show that the wide Thomas Clayton boat in Stoke top lock has been wrongly identified in the past From the Archives: Hidden Nuggets Joseph Boughey finds gold amongst the dross relating to the Sankey (St Helens) Canal and the Erewash Last Traffics: Coal to Doncaster Hugh Potter joined the last shipment in 1981, just as the Sheffield & South Yorkshire modernisation was going ahead
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