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Popular guide covering the canals and waterways between Birmingham and the River Medway. Colour Ordnance Survey® maps clearly show locks, towpaths and boating facilities. There are also comprehensive navigational notes as well as descriptions of the towns and villages, pubs and restaurants alongside the waterways. Waterways covered in this guide – Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, Grand Union Canal, Lee & Stort Navigations, River Medway, Oxford Canal, River Thames.

Exploring Britain’s most beautiful waterways. Discover a hidden countryside which is packed with wildlife along with industrial heritage. Regarded as the 'quickest way of slowing down', the canals and rivers of Britain evoke a bygone era when life moved at a more leisurely pace.

An introduction to the basic techniques of painting, with traditional and modern examples. Instructions for various projects, with details of materials, brushes, etc. Many colour illustrations. Published 1992. Reprinted as softback 2003. 128 pages. (SOFTBACK).

Only a few canal boatmen have ever written about their work and life, and Jack Roberts'(1894-1972) hitherto unpublished autobiography tells us about canal carrying over a century ago. It provides a unique and fascinating insight into the world of the fly-boatmen on the extensive Shropshire Union Canal system before, and until just after, the First World War. Fly-boats worked 24 hours a day to a timetable, with a change of crew, carrying all kinds of cargo, including perishable goods such as cheese. Jack Roberts wrote this book in the 1960s.

IWA branded bunting – Code X040 £19.99 10m length double sided bunting showing 4 designs. Bunting is suitable for outdoor use. 610gsm PVC. 24 pennants 20cm(w) x 30cm(h).

This book covers voyages around the canals in 1964/65, including a visit to Stratford upon Avon for the reopening of the Stratford Canal by HM the Queen Mother. It was first published in 1971 as a hardback, and was reissued in 1983 in softback form. This is a new edition in that the whole book has been reset, but it is exactly as written, save for a new foreword by the author.

A brand new edition of Tom Rolt's classic 1949 book about his 1946 journey along the Grand Canal, Shannon River and Royal Canal in southern Ireland. Green & Silver paints a wonderful and evocative picture, not only of Irish waterways as they were, but of a now vanished way of life just after the end of the second world war.

Twenty six superb black and white drawings by Edward Paget-Tomlinson of features of the BCN, with comprehensive historical notes on each by BCN expert Ray Shill. Illustrated with many photographs both old and new

IWA’s burgee displays to everyone that sees the boat that the owners support the work of The Inland Waterways Association in protecting the waterway system. Original white design on a dark blue background, with toggle and tie line.

IWA’s burgee displays to everyone that sees the boat that the owners support the work of The Inland Waterways Association in protecting the waterway system. Original white design on a dark blue background, with toggle and tie line.