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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
Primroses & Pillboxes - The Editor takes the opportunity to try out one of the first hire boats available on the Basingstoke Canal, restoration of which is rapidly approaching completion
Double Boat Review - Andy Burnett looks in detail at two of the boats that were exhibited at the Birmingham Boat Show this year
Waterway Artists - Garth Allan previews some of the canal artists who will be attending the annual 'gathering' at Stoke Bruerne later in June
Blakes Eighty - Michael Streat visits the oldest British hire boat agency in their 80th anniversary year
Plain to Mooriand - Stephen Fletcher spends a week boating from Beeston in the Cheshire Plain to Froghall, at the terminus of Staffordshire's moorland Caldon Canal
Soar Boat Club - Martin Glover relates the 35 years history of this long established club
Waterside Walk - David Slater explores a length of the Barnsley Canal that has recently been improved
Classic Canalside Pubs - Chris Rowland finds two inviting and refreshing stops on the Calder & Hebble Navigation
In the Rhine Gorge - Mike Taylor mixes conventional tourism and an enthusiasm for inland shipping on Europe's busiest - and most famous - length of river
Vulcan Reforged - P. J. G. Ransom looks at the history of Scotland's first iron-hulled vessel - a passenger boat for the Forth & Clyde Canal - and at the story of its re-creation for the Glasgow Garden Festival
Blue & Yellow - From the much criticised 'yellow and blue' colour scheme for 'nationalised'. narrowboats, we look at the development to 'blue and yellow' - see also Colours of the Cut
Oxford Live-Aboard - Hilary Peters meets college barge restorer Robert Maccoun
Regulars:
Book Reviews
Readers* Album
Letters to the Editor
Classified Advertisements
Colours of the Cut
Reflections
News of the Waterways World
What's On
Readers' Forum
Boats & Pieces
Front Cover - Passenger boat Arcturus offering trips for the public at the IWA National Rally at Milton Keynes in August 1985. Our Waterway Events Calendar, given away free with this issue, includes all major events for 1988 which are open to the public.
Primroses & Pillboxes - The Editor takes the opportunity to try out one of the first hire boats available on the Basingstoke Canal, restoration of which is rapidly approaching completion
Double Boat Review - Andy Burnett looks in detail at two of the boats that were exhibited at the Birmingham Boat Show this year
Waterway Artists - Garth Allan previews some of the canal artists who will be attending the annual 'gathering' at Stoke Bruerne later in June
Blakes Eighty - Michael Streat visits the oldest British hire boat agency in their 80th anniversary year
Plain to Mooriand - Stephen Fletcher spends a week boating from Beeston in the Cheshire Plain to Froghall, at the terminus of Staffordshire's moorland Caldon Canal
Soar Boat Club - Martin Glover relates the 35 years history of this long established club
Waterside Walk - David Slater explores a length of the Barnsley Canal that has recently been improved
Classic Canalside Pubs - Chris Rowland finds two inviting and refreshing stops on the Calder & Hebble Navigation
In the Rhine Gorge - Mike Taylor mixes conventional tourism and an enthusiasm for inland shipping on Europe's busiest - and most famous - length of river
Vulcan Reforged - P. J. G. Ransom looks at the history of Scotland's first iron-hulled vessel - a passenger boat for the Forth & Clyde Canal - and at the story of its re-creation for the Glasgow Garden Festival
Blue & Yellow - From the much criticised 'yellow and blue' colour scheme for 'nationalised'. narrowboats, we look at the development to 'blue and yellow' - see also Colours of the Cut
Oxford Live-Aboard - Hilary Peters meets college barge restorer Robert Maccoun
Regulars:
Book Reviews
Readers* Album
Letters to the Editor
Classified Advertisements
Colours of the Cut
Reflections
News of the Waterways World
What's On
Readers' Forum
Boats & Pieces
Front Cover - Passenger boat Arcturus offering trips for the public at the IWA National Rally at Milton Keynes in August 1985. Our Waterway Events Calendar, given away free with this issue, includes all major events for 1988 which are open to the public.
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