Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
amous Fleets: Wyvern Shipping Company Alan Faulkner recounts the transition from a small commercial carrier to a successful hire boat operator Historical Profile: Worsleya€ s Underground Canals Mike Clarke explores some of the best known but least visited early canals Picturing the Past: Will King on the GU David Blagrove looks through photographs of narrowboats taken in the late 1950s between London and Hemel Hempstead Historic Canal Maps: Shropshire Canal Richard Dean uses maps to locate a long-lost waterway Picturing the Past: Three Bridges Postcards in George Hancock's collection show a Lyons' tea promotion at Southall Traditional Techniques: Breaking the Ice Marriott's Way & Packet Boats David Blagrove examines a particularly detailed print a€ of a well-known photograph of an ice breaker at Linford Last Traffics: Boating with the Purcells Mike Stone journeyed up the Grand Union Canal in the summer of 1961 on a pair of Willow Wren boats Early Campaigning: Happy Valley A look at canalside recreation on the Stratford Canal just south of Birmingham in the early 20th century From The Archives: Bradford Canal Joseph Boughey finds a short length of canal that was converted into a railway in the 1920s
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