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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
amous Fleets: John Walley Alan Faulkner looks at a small operator that specialised in carrying flints to the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent Historical Profile: Gloucester & Sharpness Canal Hugh Conway Jones examines one of Britaina€ s few a€~ship canalsa€ a€ a popular destination for leisure boaters today Working on the Waterways: Wartime Christmas John Pyper considers hand-made cards sent by the wartime trainees a€" the a€~Idle Womena€ a€" and trainer Kit Gayforda€ s diary entries for Christmas 1942 Canals That Never Were: Aylesbury & Western Junction Richard Dean looks at a project to link the Grand Junction with the Wilts & Berks a€" a scheme which might yet have a future! A Broader Outlook: Tug Brent The story of a new tug being built and trialled in the late 1920s for the Grand Junction Canal Co Last Traffics: Blue Line David Blagrove looks through Terry Putnama€ s colourful photographs of boats carrying coal from Atherstone to the a€ Jam a€ olea€ at Southall, the last regular long-distance narrowboat traffic on the canals that ceased 40 years ago Traditional Techniques: Leighton Buzzard in the 1930s In an online auction, Ray Butler recently won a set of negatives showing remarkable detail of a€ workaday boats and boaters doing workaday thingsa€ Picturing the Past: T&M Tunnel Traffic Stan Heaton photographed narrowboats working on the northern Trent & Mersey Canal in the late 1950s and early 1960s A Place in History: An Early Tub Boat Canal Colin Bristow rediscovers the 18th century Carclazea€"Scredda canal system in Cornwall
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