Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Famous Fleets: Leeds & Liverpool Canal Co Mike Clarke discovers that this forward-looking northern canal company competed with the railways by running a successful fleet of wide boats serving a network of warehouses to a regular timetable Historical Profile: The Grand Union In the second part of his history of this busy canal, Alan Faulkner examines the route between Braunston and Birmingham Last Traffics: Wheat to Wellingborough In a new series featuring some of the last regular cargoes on our waterways, and on the 40th anniversary of the last load, John Pyper recalls the narrowboats that brought grain from London to the Nene Canals That Never Were: Peak District Richard Dean looks at ambitious schemes to link the Peak Forest and Cromford canals with Chesterfield and Sheffield Tracing Family History: Early Boat Records Paul Sillitoe reveals how to trace early boat families - from the 1790s Picturing the Past: Last Traffics on the Thames & Severn One of the last traffics before the reconstruction in the early 1900s and one of the pioneering journeys after the work was completed
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