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An encyclopedia of the canals and rivers of England and Wales, including historical data, provided by Jim Shead, Waterways Writer and Photographer.

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British Pathé Film Clips of Rivers and Canals A new feature giving access to newsreel film clips from the early twentieth century that can be searched by date or waterway to find the appropriate link to the Pathé website and a listing of Waterway Events of 2013 are now available. If you are organising a UK canal or river event that you would like added to this list please let me know.

Today's Featured Waterway Photo

Tixall Lock No 43
For more information see Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.

The Boat Listing, which now includes Broads Authority boats, added in 2009, was last updated in April 2012. See also the new Most Popular Boat Names listing, based on the 89,000 boats in the Boat Listing.

If you are a newcomer to the subject, or this web site, you may want to start with my Introduction pages. These give an introduction to this website, the UK Waterways System, its history and to inland boating on canals or rivers.

Escape from Microsoft - my experiences with Linux.

Now it's easier to buy on-line when you

Books, videos, DVDs and links to other canal shopping sites.

For non-waterway travel photographs see www.jim-shead.net

I am also webmaster for the following waterways sites Railway & Canal Historical Society
IWA Peterborough Branch
The Association of Nene River Clubs
House of York

All about the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) click here

Quote of the day No 29

Monday 20 May 2013

That was one of the times which accentuated even more than usual the complete and utter contrast between letting go and tying up. As soon as the diesel engine was started up, the loud banging and beating noise was with us all day long until we tied up: even on the butty we were always aware of it. Noise, activity and keeping going were our minimum twelve-hour ration. The minute after we were tied up for the night, someone would stop the engine and at once you could almost hear the silence; we had ceased to move and our whole life changed. We got off the boats differently because they were static; we walked on the towpath differently because there was no urgency, and we lived this other life until the morning, when the engine started up again.

An old boatman once said to me ‘Goo stiddy, but keep gooing’, and keeping going is really the essential difference between the professional boater and a pleasure boater.

Eily Gayford – The Amateur Boatwomen

For more information about these daily quotations see About the Quote of the Day.

Bantam Tug for Sale Has brand new wheelhouse see separate web page for details.

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