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Roses & Castles (Robert Wilson)
Roses & Castles

A thoroughly illustrated booklet about the arts of the narrow boats including diamond designs, ropework,...

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Simple Steps to Roses and Castles
Simple Steps to Roses and Castles

A beginner's guide to the technique of narrow boat decorative painting, written when Shirley and...

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Art of the Narrow Boat Painters, The
The Art of the Narrow Boat Painters

From the traditional designs of diamonds, hearts, clubs and fancy borders, to the development of the...

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Canal Arts & Crafts
Canal Arts & Crafts

The canals of England and Wales are some two hundred to two hundred and sixty years old. They revolutionised...

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Rose Skinners Cabin Lace border
Rose Skinner's Cabin Lace

Instructions for Rose Skinner's own cabin lace design (assumes an ability to crochet). Rose Skinner...

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Ramlin Rose front cover
Ramlin Rose

First published 1993; new edition 2023.

Towards the late 1950s, horse-drawn narrow boats became a rarer...

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Shropshire Union Fly-Boats
Shropshire Union Fly-Boats

Only a few canal boatmen have ever written about their work and life, and Jack Roberts' hitherto...

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John Knills Navy
John Knill's Navy

John Knill tells of his entry into the secluded world of the English canals between 1948-1953. This is...

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Working Boats
Working Boats

Roger Alsop left home in 1963, aged seventeen, to captain a pair of hotel-boats travelling the canals....

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Cockerels in the Cut
Cockerel's in the Cut

John was born on the canal, his parents working horse boats for Fellows, Morton and Clayton Ltd., one...

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