Features – Page 5 – Towpath Talk

Crowds in Little Venice asked to keep politicians’ focus on canals

June 26, 2017 webeditor Features

THE Inland Waterways Association’s 35th annual Canalway Cavalcade was opened by waterways Parliamentarian of the Year, Lord German, over the early May bank holiday weekend.

Light touch in Falkirk Tunnel

June 22, 2017 webeditor Features

By Hugh Dougherty THEY’VE taken a light touch to illuminating the 690-yard-long Falkirk Tunnel, blasted through solid rock by navvies building the Union Canal. Scottish

The Wet Web

June 16, 2017 webeditor Features

Helen Gazeley tunes into the latest audio equipment to help you make the most of music on board. THE ability of narrowboaters to dwell in

Character of the cut

June 16, 2017 webeditor Features

Elizabeth Rogers meets waterways officer Tony Forster, who lives and breathes boats for work, rest and play. “I AM certainly a river person, I am

Dog walking on the canals

May 23, 2017 webeditor Features

WHEN it comes to stretching all four legs, the canal is a canine’s best friend. Paula Boyden, deputy veterinary director at the Dogs Trust says:

The Turf

April 7, 2017 webeditor Features

A Tudor gem FEW places on earth can feel solitary at the same time as welcoming people. There’s a secret spot in Devon that attracts

De-winterising tips from River Canal Rescue

March 29, 2017 webeditor Features

AS WE shake off the cold weather and begin to embrace warmer days, the changes in temperature signal the start of the boating season and

Curlew in crisis

March 15, 2017 webeditor Features

Alison Alderton looks at the plight of the iconic wader and measures being introduced to protect the bird from extinction in Ireland. WITH its long

‘Ordinary’ canal lock

March 10, 2017 webeditor 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 webeditor 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 webeditor 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 webeditor 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 webeditor 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 webeditor 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