UK Inland Waterways Links


This list of (predominantly) UK Inland Waterways links has been painstakingly compiled over a number of years. I hope you find it of use or interest! I try to keep the links up to date and weed out the dead ones, but you know how it is! Caveat Emptor!

Here's a quick table of contents to help you find your way around:

  • 'Gateways' and other pages of links to Waterways sites
  • Web sites or pages relating to specific UK Waterways
  • Waterway Restoration/Recovery
  • Organisations covering the Waterways
  • IWA & Branches
  • Boat Clubs
  • Museums
  • Places connected with Inland Waterways
  • Boats
  • Shows, Events, Festivals
  • Shared Ownership
  • Waterways-related Entertainment
  • Marinas
  • Maps, Route Planning, etc
  • Engineering, (both boats and waterways)
  • Government
  • Literature
  • Waterside Pubs
  • Boat Brokerage
  • History
  • Pictures
  • Boat Builders, Boat Equipment
  • Publications
  • Hiring boats for a holiday or a short trip
  • Non-Boating stuff
  • Mailing list / Newsgroup GIGs
  • People's Pages

  • George's: Canal Boating in the U.K. and Europe The premier site for the UK Inland Waterways Internet community. Go here if you wish to join the Canals mailing list. Many of the links on this page are also reproduced there (George and I have exchanged bookmarks on a few occasions!).

     

    'Gateways' and other pages of links to Waterways sites...

    Canal Junction - the comprehensive canal guide and business directory An attractive and well-designed gateway to canals and businesses associated with them.
    The UK Waterways Network Home of the mailing lists and web ring, amongst other things...
    The Canaloholics Web Guide Lots of links to other stuff here...
    British Tourist Authority - Waterways of Britain & Ireland A good start for the general tourist.
    Tourist Net UK - Boating Specific boating information for tourists
    Links to" Boaty " Sites Not just Inland Waterways...
    MarineData Internet Ltd UK-oriented but more commercial and sailing related...
    Marinet Likewise, this site is sailing oriented, but some interesting links...
    U.K Canals A site dedicated to the canals and inland waterways of the UK
    Worldwide Water Web Some good maps but patchy coverage so far...
    Canal Cat Directories, message boards, etc
    MyNarrowboat.com A web gateway to narrowboat-related info
    The Narrowboat Site Yet another 'one site fits all' site :-)
    WaterwaysDirectory.com Directory, news, bulletin board, etc
    The Mother of All Maritime Links US- and Marine-oriented, but lots of good links...
    EuropeAfloat UK canals pages

    Web sites or pages relating to specific UK Waterways...
    English Rivers...
    Wey & Godalming Navigations
    River Thames - The Tideway - London's River
    Lisa Osta's Virtual River Thames
    River Thames Boating Resources
    Jim Shead's River Thames
    The Thames Path
    The River Medway
    River Nene
    River Severn
    Severn boating page
    Making More Use of the River Severn
    River Thames Information Pages

     

    English Canals...
    Huddersfield Narrow Canal
    Ashton Canal
    Peak Forest Canal
    Rochdale Canal
    The Fens
    The Pennine Waterways
    The Derby Canal
    Wey & Arun Canal Trust (WeySouth)
    Ashton Canal, Macclesfield Canal and Peak Forest Canal
    Worcester & Birmingham Canal Society
    Dorset & Somerset Canal
    The Droitwich Canals Trust
    The Kennet and Avon Canal
    The Thames & Medway Canal
    Stourbridge Extension Canal
    The Old Canals of Telford More archeology than anything else!
    Tamworth and the Canal System
    Driffield Navigation
    Oxford and Coventry Canals
    Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal
    The Birmingham Canal Navigations Society
    Sapperton Tunnel
    Cotswold Canals Trust The Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames & Severn Canal
    Unofficial Cotswold Canals Website An unofficial version
    Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust
    The Somersetshire Coal Canal
    Sankey Canal Restoration Society England's first artificial navigation of the Industrial Revolution
    The Lanky, Web Site of The Lancaster Canal Trust
    The Lancaster Canal History and Information
    The Basingstoke Canal - Rushmoor Council site
    Basingstoke Canal
    The Ribble Link Trust A new navigation to connect the Lancaster Canal to the main system
    Shropshire Union Canal
    The Lapal Canal Restoration & Preservation Project
    Worcester & Birmingham Canal Society
    Buckingham Canal Society
    Wilts and Berks Canal
    Macclesfield Canal
    Pocklington Canal
    A Reflection of the Norfolk Broads
    The Hereford & Gloucester Canal Trust A busy restoration
    Peak & Potteries Canals formerly Pennine & Potteries...
    The Shropshire Union Canal Society Ltd See also the Shropshire Union site above
    The Grantham Canal A promising restoration project
    Grantham Canal Official Website And another..!
    Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust A brand new waterway!
    Leeds & Liverpool Canal Society At last, a society for my favourite waterway...
    Barnsley, Dearne & Dove Canals Trust Yorkshire's missing links

     

    Scotland...
    The Union Canal, Central Scotland
    Canals Forth Clyde Scotland
    The Loch Ness Local Guide

    Wales...
    Mon and Brec Canal
    Neath and Tennant Canals
    Montgomery Canal
    Wye and Lugg Navigation
    Brecon, Abergavenny and Monmouthshire Canal Trust

    Waterway Restoration/Recovery...
    Waterway Recovery Group Red T-shirts and Wellies! The stormtroopers of the Waterways restoration movement.
    Waterway Recovery Group NorthWest
    Waterway Recovery Group BITM The Bit In The Middle!
    London WRG The London mob
    Kescrg (Volunteers Restoring Canals) The Kent & East Sussex Canal Restoration Group

    Organisations covering the Waterways...
    British Waterways The Goverment Agency responsible for most of the canals and some of the river navigations.
    Environment Agency The Government Agency responsible for certain river navigations and environmental issues in general. You'll have a hard time finding any navigation-related information here!
    The Association of Inland Navigation Authorities All the navigation authorities in England and Wales
    Residential Boat Owners Association Campaigning group on behalf of those people who live aboard.
    National Association of Boat Owners Campaigning group for private owners.
    The Commercial Boat Operators Association UK's Water Transport Trade Association.
    Steam Boat Association of Great Britain
    Waterways Liaison Service On-Line An information exchange and point of contact for Waterways groups.
    Flexible Mooring Concept A commercial venture arranging mooring swaps (for a fee).
    Canal Boat Adventure Project A charity with boats available for youth groups and school parties.
    Boat Jumbles A directory of boating jumble sales around the country.
    Australian Canal Society Not just UK oriented, but with plenty of UK waterways content. G'day Bruce!
    The Classic Motor Boat Association of Great Britain
    Canal Bridge Stores A canal-oriented on-line shopping mall!
    Boat Safe Boating Courses, Boating Tips, Boating Safety, Boating Contests
    The first ever all-female crewed Flyboat Run What's this doing here?!
    Southampton Canal Society
    British Marine Industries Federation The umbrella trade body for the marine industry
    Big Blue Trade organisation and boat show organiser (and TV show...)
    Waterway Archive Free maps, images and text relating to the Waterways
    The Community Boats Association Registered charity covering boats for the disabled, disadvantaged, etc
    The Young Boaters Club Getting youth back onto the Waterways!
    The Middle Level Commissioners Adminster the Fenland waterways
    Historic narrowboats News and information
    The BCN Challenge Cruise Year 2000 cruise web page
    The Pirate Castle Charity with its own narrowboats for youth parties etc
    Boatlaunch Launch site guide for the slipways of the UK
    The Peter Le Marchant Trust Day trips and holidays for disabled and seriously ill people - based in Loughborough.

     

    IWA & Branches...
    The Inland Waterways Association Defenders of the faith for more than 50 years. Founded by Tom Rolt and Robert Aickman in 1946. Without whom, all this would be lost.
    IWA Oxfordshire Branch
    IWA Ipswich Branch
    IWA North and East London Branch
    The Inland Waterways Association of Ireland Our cousins in the Emerald Isle.
    The London Branch

    Boat Clubs...
    Historic Narrowboat Owners Club It's the boats that are historic, not the owners :-) (Oh, I dunno though....)
    The Springer Owners Club For owners of boats produced by Sam Springer, and latterly Springer Engineering.
    Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs Co-operative association with reciprocal mooring and emergency assistance arrangements.
    The Thames Vintage Boat Club
    Cutweb Internet Boating Club The first virtual boat club, formed by members of the Blacksheep canals mailing list and uk.rec.waterways, to which it is gatewayed. A member of the AWCC.
    Upper Thames Motor Yacht Club
    Oxford Ditch Cruising Club
    Wilderness Boat Owners Club
    Great Ouse Boating Association of England
    The Tuesday Night Club
    The Camden Canals & Narrowboat Association Community narrowboat Tarporley
    Priory Marina Moorers Association at Bedford on the Great Ouse
    Norman Boats Appreciation Society Calling all Norman cabin cruiser owners....

    Museums...
    The National Waterways Museum Gloucester Docks
    The Inland Waterways Heritage Network A directory of waterways-related museums.
    The Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port Home of many old boats
    The Narrow Boat Trust Preserving narrow boats (mainly at Blakes Lock Museum, Reading)
    River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
    Black Country Living Museum Strong canals content, as you might expect.
    Museum of the Broads, Stalham Isolated from the main Inland Waterways network, but inland waterways nonetheless.
    London Canal Museum
    Standedge Visitor Centre on the newly restored Huddersfield Narrow Canal

     

    Places connected with Inland Waterways...
    Independent tourist guide - Ironbridge Gorge The cradle of the Industrial Revolution.
    The village of Sonning-on-Thames, England A charming Thames-side village.
    Cheddleton Flint Mill On the wonderful Caldon Canal in Staffordshire.
    Lapworth Canals Where the Stratford and G.U. Canals meet.
    Dudley Canals More black country canals.
    Braunston Index The "hub" of the English Inland Waterways and site of the annual boat show and historic craft rally.
    Tamworth and the Canal System On the Coventry Canal
    Whitchurch-on-Thames My home village...

    Boats...
    The 'South Midland Water Transport Limited' Canal Carrying pages Keeping carrying alive, apparently profitably!
    The Bruce Charitable Trust Four wide-beam boats on the K&A available to disabled, disadvantaged or elderly groups.
    Stokie Keeping trade alive on the western K&A.
    escargot Peddle powered "narrow" boat!
    The Norfolk Wherry Trust The Wherry Albion is available for charter. What's a Wherry? Find out..!
    President The best known steam powered narrowboat of them all!
    Monarch Another well known steam narrowboat
    Oxford PHAB on the narrowboat Venturer Social organisation for mixed able-bodied and dis-abled groups.
    South Staffordshire Narrowboat Co. Ltd A charity with it's own trip boat, Earnest Thomas
    The Humber Keel & Sloop Preservation Society Ancient sailing craft, still operating...
    Fulbourne Historic working boat and unofficial flagship of the WRG :-)

    Shows, Events, Festivals...
    Thames Traditional Boat Rally
    Braunston Boat Show
    Worcester '99
    Slough Canal Festival
    Tameside Canals Festival
    Boats on Show - Beale Park, Pangbourne
    The BCN Challenge A personal view of the 2000 event from Kevin Maslin

     

    Shared Ownership, Timeshare, etc...
    Challenger Syndicateships
    Ownerships
    The Earl of Concordia Narrowboat Association A "private" boat-share arrangement.
    Jemima D Narrowboat Co-operative Another "private" boat-share
    Stratford Court Cruisers Timeshare boats for RCI customers
    Narrowboatshare brochure
    Canaltime One of the biggest...
    Narrowboat Share Syndicate A private share syndicate
    Carefree Cruising Shared ownership

    Waterways-related Entertainment...
    The Waterways Entertainment Directory
    Half Cut Bruce Peckett and his unstoppable Accordian (amongst other things :-)
    Folkwise Jeff Dennison & Benny Graham, with their multimedia show "They're Coming Back to the Water".
    Mikron Theatre Company
    Day Star Theatre Company

     

    Marinas...
    Narrowcraft Limited:-Narrowboats & Canals
    Whilton Marina Ltd.
    L.R. Harris & Son. North-east of Leicester
    Blackwater meadow Marina Ellesmere
    Marinas and moorings on the Thames
    Heart of England Marinas at Alvecote on the Coventry Canal
    Sawley Marina on the Trent
    Springwood Haven on the Coventry Canal
    Concoform Marine on the Grand Union at Weedon

     

    Maps, Route Planning, etc...
    Towpaths Towpath shopping access, courtesy of H&H Narrowboat Hotels.
    Elstead Maps Waterways maps & guides - buy online!
    Pearsons Canal Companions
    Nicholson's Guides Updates Greg Chapman's unofficial updates and amendements to the published Nicholson's Guides.
    Britain's Waterways Covering every canal & river navigation in the UK
    YaCHT - tide table program Great for those occasional jaunts up the tidal rivers (Thames, Severn, Trent, etc).
    Navigation Closures The Dutch Barge Association's closures page. Covers all waterways.
    BW Stoppage Board
    Canal Planner/Mac The Macintosh version of the PC route planner written by Syd Arkless. This one is a hypercard groupware application written by George Colouris.
    Tides and Currents calculator This one's for Windows...
    Canal Route Planner on the web...
    The Waterway Archive Many old maps.
    Oxford Canal Plan of 1771 from the rootsweb archive
    Coventry Canal Plan of 1771, also from the rootsweb archive

    Engineering, (both boats and waterways)...
    Wave page - propcalc The page for an Excel spreadsheet that calculates the correct prop size for your boat.
    Case Studies - British Waterways Data collection for monitoring the Grand Union.
    New Scientist Planet Science: The future in tow Story about the fibre-optic network being buried in the towpath.
    Anderton Boat Lift Nearing full restoration...

    Government...
    Recreational Craft Directive or RCD The RCD which all new boats must conform to from 16th June 1998.
    UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions DETR is the department responsible for the Waterways.
    "Waterway Partners" A Govt/BW initiative.

    Literature...
    Project Gutenberg: Three Men in a Boat The complete text of the out-of-copyright classic.
    The Waterways Book Service Inland Waterways and boating books.

     

    Waterside Pubs...
    The Narrowboat Inn, Whittington, Shropshire, England
    The Boat Inn Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire
    The Narrow Boat Inn Stowe Hill, Weedon
    There must be more surely... :-)

    Boat Brokerage...
    High Line Yachting Ltd & Boatmans Cabin Co
    The narrowboat Emporium
    Braunston Marina
    Cowroast Marinas
    Narrowcraft's On-Line Market
    Canal Craft (Brokerage) Ltd
    Andy Burnett Narrowboat Brokerage
    WhatBoat.com
    Harral Brokerage Services
    Walton Marine Brokerage
    Boat Browse All kinds of boats for sale
    Lancaster Canal Boat Sales

    History...
    Plan of the T&M Canal A historical document from about the time of its construction.
    Leawood Pump The preserved steam-pump on the Cromford Canal.
    Industrialization and Canals: Britain
    A Brief History of English Canals
    Thomas Steers - Canal Engineer
    The Commercial Development of English Canals
    I.A.Recordings: Industrial Site - Shropshire Union Canal
    I.A.Recordings: Video Compilations list Lots of videos of canals.
    Camden Catacombs A fascinating bit of canal history in the centre of London
    Lost Labours - The Stourport - Leominster Canal Some stunning photographs...
    The 'Hydrostatick' Caisson Lock Engineering history....

    Pictures...
    AG & Blue Heron, River Soar Yours truly, posing.. :-)
    Floods on the Soar The 1998 floods.
    Floods on the Nene, GU and Oxford More on the 1998 floods.
    Birmingham Canal Photographs Some nice old photos...
    Where is that Bridge John Brinnand's "Spot the Bridge" competition.
    Floods on the Trent The 2000 floods
    Holiday photos - Macc, Peak Forest, Caldon American family on the cut
    Huddersfield Narrow canal restoration cock-up! Doh!

    Boat Builders, Boat Equipment...
    Chandleries...
    Express Marine Services
    Calcutt Boats Chandlery
    Cruisermart - Shoreline (Yachtsmen) Ltd
    Tradline Ropes & Fenders Braunston
    Brenmarl Narrowboat Brassware & Chandlery Saul, Gloucestershire

    Engines...
    Engine Database - Suitable narrowboat engines
    Beta Marine Diesel Engine Specifications
    Australian Old Lister Page
    Vetus
    De-Bug TM for Boats Diesel-based micro-organisms - a likely story!
    Old Engines Peter & Rita Forbes' pages
    Zemar Marine fuel cells

    Heating, cooking...
    Wood and coal burning stoves
    Kabola Heating Systems
    Harworth Heating Ltd
    Ecofan A brilliant little device for shifting hot air around a boat
    Heaters, Stoves & BBQs

    Electrical, Generators...
    Kuranda Marine- Mastervolt Energy Systems
    Heart Interface Battery charger controller and inverter.
    Dynatrol Industrial motor controls
    12 Volts Ltd Everything you ever wanted to know about 12v.....
    Whispergen Near silent power based on the Sterling Engine.
    Fischer Panda UK Generators
    Mobile Inverters for cars, etc
    Elecsol Europe Batteries
    Battery Business Directory Extensive listing of battery types, suppliers, etc
    The Power Pages Everything you ever wanted to know about boat electrics...

    Water systems...
    General Ecology water filters & purifiers
    Marine Sanitation

    Boat Builders...
    Merlin Narrowboats
    Narrowcraft Limited:- Online Brochure
    Roger Fuller narrow boat builder
    John White narrowboat builder
    MCC Stenson Marina
    Newport Narrowboats South Wales
    Liverpool Boat Co

    Boat Maintenance...
    Boat Maintenance Services Maintenance & BSS examinations - Lower Heyford, S. Oxford Canal.
    Marine Diesel Engine & Boat Maintenance Course at Reading College (recommended)
    Chertsey Meads Marine Boatyard and repair service on the lower Thames.

     

    Miscellaneous...
    Cut Covers Company Soft furnishings.
    CoverIt Custom Canopies
    Phil Speight Canal Boat Painter
    The Boaters Phone Company
    Pager remote control
    Ocean Air - Blinds for Boats
    Data over GSM Everything you ever wanted to know about using data on GSM mobiles
    Net 4 Nowt Directory of free ISPs (useful if you're stuck on 9600 GSM)
    SoftGSM A soft GSM modem for mobile computing
    Canal Art A business supplying traditionally decorated items and giftware
    Newton Crum Boat Insurance Broker for all types of pleasure craft
    Lifejackets and Buoyancy Aids UK by mail order
    More lifejackets at the Marine Warehouse
    The Vintage Paint Company for specialist paints...

    Publications...
    In the News...
    Local News - Wendover Arm Trust Not all sweetness and light in Buckinghamshire..
    Daventry Calling Autumn 1998 Page 2 Local news.
    BBC News | UK | Canal boat dead named The sad story of the L&L 'disaster' at Stegneck Lock
    Canals Making a comeback BBC News story
    Facelift for neglected canals BBC News story
    On The Waterfront Guardian newspaper story
    Canal age dawns anew in the UK BBC News report
    Three Hurt in Boat Blast BBC News report

     

    One-offs...
    Global Travel Writers' Syndicate - Exploring Englands Canals
    Afloat with Fly Boats andLeggers Article from the Smithsonian Magazine

    Regular...
    J.M. Pearson & Son Ltd - Canal Companions One of the "definitive" guides :-)
    Canalia On-line waterways magazine.
    Boats and Planes For Sale
    Canal & Riverboat magazine The newsstand monthly
    Canal Boat & Inland Waterways magazine Another newsstand monthly
    Electric Boat News
    Motor Boats Monthly
    Narrowboatworld On-line waterways magazine

     

    On TV...
    Water World Successful Carlton Central documentary series
    Dream Lives - BBC A narrowboat community at Three Mills, East London

    Hiring boats for a holiday or a short trip...
    Index of all boats for rent or hire in the UK Not just narrowboats...

    Trip Boats...
    The Narrowboat Redshank Bristol City Docks and the River Avon.
    Pennine Boat Trips of Skipton, Yorkshire Dales canal cruises
    Linda Cruising Company Ex-working boat on the Grand Union at Cosgrove.
    The Llangollen Wharf, Llangollen Horse-drawn trip boat on the Llangollen.
    White Horse Fast Ferries Passenger ferries on the Thames in London.
    Lady Florence - Brunch Cruises On the rivers Alde and Ore.
    Manchester - 24 Hour City - Waterways and River Trips
    Montgomery Canal Cruises
    Jubilee - the K & A Canal Trust trip boat

    Hotel Boats...
    H & H Narrowboat Hotels
    Heart of England Hotel Narrowboats
    Westover Boat Company
    Helen of the West
    Hotel Boats On-line Cruising schedules & booking information
    Cambrian Cruisers in Wales

    Holiday Hire Boats (in no particular order)...
    Multiples...
    Alvechurch Boat Centres
    Alvechurch Boat Centre, Britain's largest canal narrowboat operator
    Anglo-Welsh Group plc
    Black Prince Narrowboat Holidays - quality canal holidays
    Boating Holidays on the Canals in the United Kingdom
    Canal Boat Holidays in the UK - widest choice of routes and narrowboats
    Canal Holidays - Cruising the Canals of England and Wales
    Cherry Craft - luxury narrowboat holidays in Britain
    Drifters Leisure Limited
    Hoseasons Holdays - Boating
    Viking Afloat Narrowboat Holidays - canal boat cruising in England and Wales
    The Blue Riband Club A group of up-market hire operators
    Narrowboat Holidays in association with Viking Afloat
    Narrowboat Breaks on the Leeds & Liverpool and Lancaster canals
    Latelink boating holidays Last minute deals

    Single operators...
    Narrowboat Savanna, Guildford
    Andersen Boats in Middlewich, Cheshire
    Ashby Boat Company
    Banks Hire Boats - narrowboat cruising in Yorkshire
    Blisworth Tunnel Boats
    Bridgewater Boats
    Calcutt Boats Ltd
    Club Line Cruisers
    Floating Homes Ltd. Nene Narrowboat Centre, Peterborough
    Galleon Marine holidays narrowboat hire on the Basingstoke canal
    Guildford Boat House Narrowboat hire
    Llangollen Tour
    Middlewich Narrowboats Canal Holidays & Vacations
    Narrowboat by Impact Travel Services, Inc
    Norfolk Broads
    Snaygill Boats - Skipton
    Union Canal Carriers Ltd
    Shire Cruisers
    Claymoore Navigation Canal Holidays
    Clifton Cruisers
    Weltonfield Narrowboats
    Pennine Cruisers
    Silsden Boats on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal
    Countrywide Cruisers on the Shropshire Union Canal
    Rose Narrowboats on the N. Oxford Canal
    Starline Narrowboats at Upton-on-Severn
    Valley Cruises on the Coventry Canal
    Moonraker Narrowboat Company on the western Kennet & Avon Canal
    Oxfordshire Narrowboats on the S. Oxford Canal
    Lowland Narrowboats on the Scottish lowland canals
    Cheshire Cat Narrowboat Hire on the Shropshire Union Canal
    Chas Harden Boats on the Shropshire Union Canal
    Blackwater Boats on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation
    Evesham Marina Charter Ltd at Stratford-upon-Avon
    Butterfly Boats In the heart of Cambridgeshire's Waterways...
    Chertsey Meads Marine on the Thames
    Canalboat Holidays Ltd on the Grand Union at Weedon

     

    Non-Boating stuff...
    UK Waterside Property
    Towpath Action Group Campaigning group for towpath users.
    Sowerby Bridge Sculpture Art.
    We Love Canals! A firm of architects by the K&A.
    The Flagmakers Boats need to fly flags from time to time, right?!
    Institute Of Hydrology Everything you ever wanted to know about water...
    Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
    The Institute of Freshwater Ecology
    Where to Fish: England Canals Help for fisherpersons.
    Charter of uk.rec.waterways What's permitted and what's not on uk.rec.waterways.
    Television Transmitter Information Extremely useful for adjusting the TV aerial in an unfamiliar location!

    The UK Inland Waterways scene on the Internet revolves around the canals mailing list and the newsgroup uk.rec.waterways which used to be gatewayed, but sadly not anymore. Over the past few years the people involved have organised some local and national/international get-togethers, termed GIGs (for Great Internet Get-together).
     

     

    Mailing list / Newsgroup GIGs...
    GIG99 Stafford
    Keith Midgley's GIG99 pictures
    San Francisco Bay Mini GIG
    Ely GIG picture
    GIG98 Normanton
    Crown at Napton, MidiGIG pictures
    GIG96 Ansty The first GIG.
    The list/group photocall page Beardies of the world unite!

     

    A number of individuals (both mailing list / newsgroup members and others) have set up their own web pages to celebrate their love of waterways, their boats or their recent trips, etc.

     

    People's Pages...
    Individuals Trips, Diaries, etc...
    The BCN Challenge 1999: Ben's log
    Swan & Mallard trip Story of a trip on a hotel boat pair.
    The Booze Cruise How not to go about it...
    Canal Holiday, 1998 A group aboard an Alvechurch hire boat for a week.
    Travelling the inland waterways - Brett Laniosh The various travels of Brett's boat Bluebell.
    Narrowboat in England Swedish family hiring from Kate Boats, Warwick.
    Prairie Schooner Two week family holiday on the Grand Union from Wyvern Shipping Co.
    Munkgaard family Danish family hiring from Dartline on the Shroppie.
    Rainmakers on Narrowboat Jade Two American couples on the Thames Ring.
    September 1994 Narrowboat Trip Group hiring from Anglo-welsh at Wootton Wawen.

    Individuals Pages...
    Simon Marshall's narrowboat Havana at Kingston upon Thames
    Robin Cocker's new narrowboat Uisce
    Malcolm Nixon's boat Duplin
    Richard Hill, Waterways Writer
    Tim Lewis's web site
    Dave Hockin's n.b. Hailey Wood and n.b. Sorrel
    Andrew Denny's n.b. Granny Buttons
    Steve Goodsell's Canals and Waterways pages
    Mirage II - David Heath David's new boat takes shape...
    Dawncraft Tips - David Heath David's old boat :-)
    Mike Skyner's Homepages Mike's wonderful trad tug Pangur Ban - all his own work.
    A Web page - Barry Wickett
    Dave & Jane Green Photos of their joint 50th birthday party amongst other things. Happy birthday!
    Onelight - Guy Morgan Guy's boats are tug Thorn and butty Persephone.
    The confusion.org Narrowboat Pages - Ben Jameson
    Canal Boat Exchange
    Reliance - Mike Thomas Life on the Thames in a Humber Keel.
    Mike Stevens' Home Page Felis Catus II is Mike's boat.
    James Perry's Canal Page
    Tony Mealings pages Lots of good stuff here...
    Touch and Tell Michael Cobbs Narrowboat
    The Canals Page - Tony Pickford
    dral - Peter Hardcastle The man behind Roots & Routes...
    Clive's Canal Pictures - Clive Worrall
    Chris Deuchar's Web Home Page Owner of wooden pair Jackal & Hereford.
    The Andrew Dyke Pages N.b. One Moore etc.
    Dr. Sean Neill's Steam on Canals Owner of steamer Laplander - converted ice-boat circa. 1830!
    Krystyna and Michaels Canal Pictures The cutpics site, with plenty of pictures..
    Dawdlers Canal Pages
    BBC Club Inland Waterways Section
    Brett Laniosh's Homepage
    John Watson's Home Page and John's tug Tam Lin.
    Paul & Kerry Williams Home Page
    Bruce Pecketts Canal Pages N.b. Badger, Half Cut, etc
    The Striguil Zone - Russell Higgins
    Peter and Pauline Curtis's Information Service N.b. Corinna at Pangbourne on the Thames.
    Lord Byron's Maggot Your guess is as good as mine...
    nb Aborigine - Abdy Burke/Sandra Coker
    Mike Clarke's Home Page
    Michael Clarke
    David Heath Home Page
    Robert Laws's homepage aboard the Narrowboat `St.Kilda' in Cambridge
    Canals Page - Oliver Clarke 'Pigpen', for those in the know...
    Nick's Canal Boating in the East Midlands - Nick Howard and n.b. Little Mo
    Kevin Cowtan's Canals Page, University of York, UK
    Jim Shead Waterways photographer and writer
    River Thames and boaty things Ian and Dot Hart's pages
    Tony Clayton's Home Page and his boat Linton
    Brian Dominic and his restoration project 'Rumpus'
    The Taylor Family pages - lots of canal stuff
    n.b Discovery P Scott
    n.b. Kinsarvik Mike Ricketts' boat
    n.b. Tabaluga
    Barry & Mark Wickett's pages
    The Dawn Mist Iain Moone's self-fit out
    Steev's Canal Pages by Steev....
    The Beeky Chuggers Carrying Co Capt'n Beeky & crew
    n.b. Swallow Part-owned by Richard Boyles
    n.b. Gralyn on the Macclesfield Canal
    n.b. Elektra Harry Whitfield's PropGen powered boat with a rather familar feel... :-)
    n.b. Lancer
    Wayne's Dawncraft Renovating a 22ft Dawncraft
    Water Emerald Norman Riches' ex-BW narrowboat

    Copyright © 1999-2004 Andy Greener. Any problems or comments, please email me. Last update: 21st June 2005