Links
Working
and Historic Boats:
The
Historic Boat Owners Association:
aims and objectives include:To encourage the
preservation, restoration and use of working
and ex-working narrow boats, and to establish
and maintain a narrow boat archive."
Not
updated for a while, but interesting, informative
info.
Commercial
Boat Operators Association:
Campaigners for freight on all waterways.
John
Jackson and narrow boat Roach:
One of our
suppliers and a waterbourne coal merchant
since 1988.
The
Historic Canal Boat website:
comprehensive list of Carrying Companies and
their fleets.
www.bream.org/:
nifty
little site about surviving Fellows, Morton
& Clayton boats ('Joshers') of the
'Fish Class'.
The
FMC Steam boat President website:
possibly the most famous historic boat,
plus of course, the 'Salter's' butty
Kildare
Bates
Boatyard - builders and repairers
of wooden boats - they made Brighton's
'elum.
Narrow
Boat Magazine - now in it's
second year, this excellent quarterly periodical
covers canal carrying fleets, canal artwork,
individual navigations, family history, plus
more......
The
Barge Association - the DBA
"is for all those interested in ex-commercial
Barges or any other type of broad-beam inland
waterways craft."
A.M
Models - "here
you will find details of the models we make
and sell, the painted canal ware we have for
sale as well as the lists of ex-working boats
we have compiled, do feel free to copy this
information but please give us a link back
for it. We
make models to any scale and with all pockets
in mind, radio control models with extra features
such as engine noise, smoke and lighting can
also be built to order with the main sizes
being 00, 009 and N scale aimed at the railway
modelling market but also suitable for displaying
in cases.
Latest News: There is now
a forum added to the site, please add any
details of historic boats/fleets you know
In fact anything of a historic nature whether
pictures documents or video can be added to
the forum.
Member
Related Websites:
Membership
Secetary Anne Perry designs and produces illustrated
canal maps and scenes; check out her site
at : www.villageneedlecraft.co.uk
Black Country Buddha, Malcolm 'Blossom' Edge,
has an informative and entertaining website
about Black Country life, including a fascinating
account of his experiences of the BCN in the
50's & 60's at : http://blossomsblackcountry.freeservers.com/
Waterway
Organisations:
British
Waterways:
Inland
Waterways Association
The
Waterways Trust:
Museums:
Friends
of the Canal Museum, Stoke Bruernee
Bruerne
Stoke
Bruerne
Ellesmere
Port
Gloucester
London
Canal Museum
General
Canal Websites:
Canal
Junction: A mine of info on
all aspects of UK Waterways - look for
the really excellent regular articles by Tony
Lewery, canal historian, traditional painter
and horse-drawn wooden narrowboat enthusiast.
Jim
Shead's Canal Pages: Another
comprehensive overview of the canal scene
- "An encyclopedia of the canals and
rivers of England and Wales, including historical
data, provided by Jim Shead, Waterways
Writer and Photographer."
Nick's
Canal Route Planner:
a very useful tool - put in your start
and finish places, hours per day etc and you
can print out a route complete with estimated
timings, suggested moorings etc etc.
Narrowboat
World: An entertaining and
topical website with many different points
of view, updated almost daily. They will put
your email opinions on line. Not very supportive
to working boats 'tho!
Canal
World Discussion Forums: a
lively and entertaing discussion forum - sometimes
gets very heated, which is even more entertaining!
Highly Recommended!
Boats
and Canals
Another
canal forum and more....
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Narrow Boat Trust is a company limited by
guarantee, registered in Cardiff under number
1724536
The
Registered Office of the Narrow Boat Trust
is at:
23 Redway Drive, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2
7NT
The
Narrow Boat Trust is a charity registered
in England under number: 288243
