Features – Page 5 – Towpath Talk

‘Ordinary’ canal lock

March 10, 2017 Janet Richardson Features

Genius in its simplicity THE canal lock is a masterpiece of simplicity that ingeniously carries boats uphill and downhill in still water. It’s the place

The Wet Web – the growing trend of renting out your boat

March 7, 2017 Janet Richardson Features

Helen Gazeley looks at the growing trend of renting out your boat for holiday accommodation. AS DAYS lengthen and thoughts turn to holidays, have you

Characters of the cut

February 28, 2017 Janet Richardson Features

Julie Webb discovers that one of the Braunston Rally’s regulars is a skater as well as a boater. THE day I interviewed David Daines, in

Characters of the cut

November 17, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

Elizabeth Rogers met non-tidal River Thames harbourmaster Andrew Graham and his successor Barry Russell before Andrew’s retirement. AS THE River Thames waterways operations managers, known

Characters of the cut

October 10, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

Julie Webb meets the author and canal historian who is campaigning to save an Oxford boatyard. “I WOULD never have had the adventurousness to make

Dredging the depths with the new kit

August 18, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

Hugh Dougherty went along to Linlithgow on the Union Canal to see Scottish Canals’ dredging team go into action with their new kit. Here’s what

Characters of the cut

August 8, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

Julie Webb meets the couple for whom carrying coal has become a way of life. “OUR eyes met over a diesel pump!” said John Jackson,

Cog

July 18, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

The bare roots of canal mechanics By Phillippa Greenwood. Images by Martine O’Callaghan THE ultimate marvel of Britain’s canals remains how still water manages to

Using paddle gear safely

July 18, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

This video by the Canal & River Trust on the safe use of paddle gear features historic narrowboat Sweden.

The Wet Web – July

July 8, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

Helen Gazeley looks at continental holidays and a new radio station for boaters. WITH the siren call of the holiday season luring us to new

Pedestal power

July 6, 2016 Janet Richardson Features, Products

Janet Richardson hooks up to a company at the forefront of marine utility services. ONE of the most familiar sights alongside the pontoons at any

Mission impossible for The Pod?

June 9, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

Can you find – and buy – your own residential mooring? That was the quest facing Pam Berridge and Kate Webley. Pam takes up the

Salt’s Mill – A living village of World Heritage

June 8, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

FIRE-spitting chimneys once choked the landscape across the north of England, and the area still harbours secrets from the heyday of those dark satanic mills.

The Wet Web: Helen Gazeley looks at open gardens and a space for events

June 8, 2016 Janet Richardson Features

ONE of the most intriguing gardens on show during the upcoming Open Garden Squares Weekend, in London on June 18-19, has to be Garden Barge