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How much does it cost to live on a narrowboat?

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Arianne Davey

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August 11, 2023

Adam Lind shares lots about his life on board a boat and provides lots of tips, ideas and information that you might find useful if you’re considering living on a boat too.
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Characters of the Cut: Narrowboat Family Foster

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August 9, 2023

Alice Grifin caught up with the Foster family WHEN Craig and Ellie Foster relocated to London for work, they knew they were at a crossroads requiring creative thinking. Ellie shared with me: “When Craig took a new job at a furniture and lighting company in King’s Cross, we knew that either I would have to…
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Barge Beagle’s summer holiday – lighting the way

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August 8, 2023

Sniffing out good finds for crews with canines! Alison Alderton reports… AROUND for centuries, lighthouses have adapted with technology. Now fully automated, what was once considered the lonely life of a lighthouse keeper no longer exists. However, the buildings they once called home remain and it’s possible to take holidays in some of them where,…
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The Croydon Canal And Its Railway Successors

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Alex Bestwick

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May 17, 2023

Originally promoted as a canal, the railway to West Croydon has had five different methods of traction. This article by Edwaard Treby was first published in The Railway Magazine in October 1967. IN 1801, Acts of Parliament were passed for the construction of a canal from the Grand Surrey Canal (also authorised in 1801) at…
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They’re not making them any more

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April 19, 2023

Jonathan Mosse’s monthly look at freight developments on the inland waterways. “BUY land, they’re not making it anymore”; thus goes a well-known observation attributed to Mark Twain. Much the same thing could be said about ports scattered around the periphery of the United Kingdom. So when confronted by a headline such as: ‘Councillors vote to…
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Growing In Small Spaces: Hanging Gardens Of Plenty

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Steve Ott

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April 13, 2023

Ben Vanheem offers more inspiration for great hanging pots and containers to grow fruit and veg.
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Characters of the Cut: Ashley Woodward, The Boat Inn

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April 12, 2023

By Alice Griffin STANDING proud at top lock opposite the country’s first canal museum, The Boat Inn, Stoke Bruerne, is at the heart of the canal system. Independently owned and operated by the Woodward family since 1877, fifth-generation Ashley Woodward is rightly proud to be the current general manager. Originally rented from the Duke of…
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Learn how to grow your own food with help from Kitchen Garden magazine

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Arianne Davey

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March 21, 2023

Download your free taster of the award-winning Kitchen Garden magazine to help you grow and cook your own delicious produce.
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New chapter in life of working boat

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March 14, 2023

A former coal barge is taking it easy in retirement. Sally Clifford finds out more…. FLANKED by high-rise apartments in a trendy waterside setting, you could say Marjorie R has got it made. The once grimy and industrial cityscape through which she previously sailed, transporting 75 tonnes of coal each journey between Fall Ings, Wakefield…
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Take a Friend Fishing – more opportunity than ever for angling success.

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March 2, 2023

Take a Friend Fishing Easter runs from Saturday 1st of April to Sunday 16th of April 2023 (inclusive) Take a Friend Fishing with National Fishing Month runs from Saturday 29th of July to Sunday 3rd of September 2023 (inclusive) With the pressures of modern life, physical health and mental wellbeing are more important than ever.…
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Spotlight on the Caledonian Canal

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February 25, 2023

AS SCOTTISH Canals recruits seasonal waterways operatives around the canal network, we focus on the Caledonian, almost 60 miles of natural loch and man-made canal running through the Scottish Highlands. Douglas Gordon is Middle District supervisor on the Caledonian – his patch being the often-remote section of the canal between Laggan Locks and Fort Augustus.…
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Characters of the Cut: Dave Thompson

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February 10, 2023

Alice Griffin joins Dave Thompson as he savours the tranquillity of the towpath IN 2012 when Dave Thompson lost his wife of 25 years, Sue, to cancer he was left not just broken-hearted, but also broke. “We had been living in Tenerife for the last year of Sue’s life and after she died I found…
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Multifuel stoves safety tips

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January 25, 2023

Ben Sutcliffe-Davies investigates… WHEN in Bristol last week I found that many owners have certainly dug in and got the heating on. Many had multifuel stoves going and I’m sure many regular readers will remember my articles from the last few years about the dangers of multifuel stoves. In the last few weeks there have…
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A guide to Scotland’s top lochs

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Cicely Oliver

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January 23, 2023

LOCHS of Scotland, the comprehensive guide to Scotland’s most fabulous inland and sea lochs, does exactly what it says on the cover. It takes readers from Loch Ken in the south to Loch Eriboll in the north, introducing them to 50 Scottish lochs and lochans, tidal and inland, from the coast to the mountains. It’s…
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