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Category: Features

Saving the past for the future

June 25, 2018 Janet Richardson Featured, Features

THE Yorkshire Ex-Commercial Barge Club specialise in industrial history preservation. Its members are all owners of private vessels and welcome support in helping them fight

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It’s my second sinking today

June 4, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

Harry Arnold of Waterway Images looks back with fondness and humour at life on the canals in decades gone by. RETURNING to Norbury Junction is

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Paddle your own canoe (kayak, etc.)…

May 31, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

Review by Elizabeth Rogers MARK Rainsley is an enthusiastic paddler, by kayak, canoe boat or paddleboard, and he suggests in his book Paddle the Thames

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Villagers care for their canal

May 30, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

Elizabeth Rogers talks to Alan Norris, founding chairman of the West Vale branch of the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust. BACK in 1991 Alan Norris

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Still steaming along successfully

May 30, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

Still going strong, Salter’s Steamers have been carrying passengers on the Thames since the mid-19th century. Elizabeth Rogers talks to Paul Salter, the sixth generation

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Well, it beats catching the bus!

May 30, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

KAYAKER Tom Hards has found a better way to cope with his daily commute between Stroud and Stonehouse by choosing to paddle to work instead

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Be vigilant this summer!

May 30, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

By working towards an environmentally sustainable boating community, we can save money, avoid red tape and safeguard the waterways and habitats we enjoy for the

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A morning at the Mon & Brec

May 29, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

The most popular attraction in the Brecon Beacons National Park, the Mon & Brec Canal is totally landlocked. Janet Richardson visited South Wales to find

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Explore the Cally by canoe

May 29, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

THE Caledonian Canal is 60 miles of natural fresh water lochs and man-made canals running through the magnificently scenic Great Glen of the Scottish Highlands,

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A lunch with Hercule Poirot

May 26, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

Tim Coghlan of Braunston Marina has lunch with David Suchet of Hercule Poirot fame and finds out more about the actor’s connection with Britain’s canals.

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Beautiful Boötes

May 26, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

Towpath astronomer Brian Jones searches the sky for the constellation of Boötes. Is it herdsman, ploughman or bear driver? THE prominent constellation of Boötes is located

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Issy – a new addition to the Venetian hire fleet

May 25, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

HAVING been operating for the last five years with the boat stock that came with the business Venetian Hireboats, Phil Roberts and his wife Maxine

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The story of Clonmacnoise

May 17, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

Alison Alderton visits one of Ireland’s most famous monastic sites. ARRIVAL at a destination by boat is always special but there is one place in

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Waterways Holidays answers first-timers’ FAQs

March 24, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features

BOATING holidays agency Waterways Holidays has answered the questions it is most often asked in a blog post titled Newbie’s Guide to Boating. The company

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