June 2024

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Whether it’s news, reviews, reports or guides, we’ve got it covered right across the UK’s entire canal network, and there’s a substantial trader section for all your buying and selling needs. Towpath Talk is the best way to find out what’s going on in British waterways today.

Inside this month’s Towpath Talk…

It’s a lock keeper’s life…

Debs Frith’s lock-keeping role is inspiring her works of art. Sally Clifford went along for a chat.

Exploring your canal ancestry: the men who built the canals

Nicola Lisle continues her family history serieswith a look at the men who did the hard work building the canals – the navigators, or ‘navvies’

Left hand; right hand

Jonathan Mosse’s monthly look at freight development on the inland waterways.

Tom Rolt

Canal pioneer Tom Rolt’s remarkable life remembered at Ironbridge Gorge Museum’s successful conference

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