A thoroughly illustrated booklet about the arts of the narrow boats including diamond designs, ropework,...
A beginner's guide to the technique of narrow boat decorative painting, written when Shirley and...
From the traditional designs of diamonds, hearts, clubs and fancy borders, to the development of the...
The canals of England and Wales are some two hundred to two hundred and sixty years old. They revolutionised...
Instructions for Rose Skinner's own cabin lace design (assumes an ability to crochet). Rose Skinner...
First published 1993; new edition 2023.
Towards the late 1950s, horse-drawn narrow boats became a rarer...
Only a few canal boatmen have ever written about their work and life, and Jack Roberts' hitherto...
John Knill tells of his entry into the secluded world of the English canals between 1948-1953. This is...
Roger Alsop left home in 1963, aged seventeen, to captain a pair of hotel-boats travelling the canals....
John was born on the canal, his parents working horse boats for Fellows, Morton and Clayton Ltd., one...
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