ALTHOUGH I am no longer a regular columnist for narrowboatworld, I do still take a great interest in all things canal related; after all my livelihood still depends on them. However the more I see and hear of today's canal society and infrastructure in general, the more depressed it makes me, writes Orph Mable.
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DURING that period when the then British Waterways were persuading people to construct marinas, three massive ones were built on the eastern section of the Trent & Mersey Canal—then the boating industry went into decline.
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RESIDENT boaters on the Cam in Cambridge are to be evicted from the waterway if they do not have a legal mooring on the river and no licence.
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IT WAS shortly before the downturn in the building industry when the 'masterplan' for the Weavers' Triangle on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley was first instigated.
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THE Staffs & Worcs was closed yesterday (Tuesday) above its junction with the Stourbridge Canal at Rocky Lock.
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THE annual Sawley Marina Spring event—Sawley Spring Market—is on track to be bigger and better than ever before.
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MANY boaters have asked about the height restriction of Acton Bridge over the Weaver that at present is unable to be swung owing to repairs.
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CAPERCAILLIE Cruisers has been providing narrowboat holidays on the Lowland Canals since 2003, following the re-opening of the canals and the development of the Falkirk Wheel.
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MY GOOD friends Irene and Nick Scott ran hotel boats on the Scottish Canals but it was the turning of the Falkirk Wheel into what Nick described as a theme park that decided them to pull out, writes Malcolm Fresh.
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THE old building at Froghall Basin at the southern end of the Caldon Canal has been turned into an attractive café by a local entrepreneur.
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