Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Working on the Waterways: Boating Through World War One A hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, Christopher M. Jones looks at some of the effects it had on our canals and the people who worked on them Working on the Waterways: Transport Workers Battalions Mike Clarke looks at how the military helped out on the canals during World War One Picturing the Past: Will King on the GU David Blagrove looks through photographs of narrowboats in the late 1950s between Marsworth to Birmingham Famous Fleets: Cadburya€ s Better known for its chocolate than for it use of narrowboats, Alan Faulkner looks into the fleet of a company that was a great believer in water transport Last Traffics: PHOSPHORUS WASTE Hugh Potter sums up recollections of what was probably the most infamous and noxious cargo ever carried by canal Historical Canal Maps: BIRMINGHAM CANAL 1773 Richard Dean gleans information from the earliest map of the completed canal Tracing Family History: KNOWING YOUR ONIONS Steve Hayes sniffs out his boating ancestors in Lincolnshire
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