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Arts and Crafts

A. M. Models: Sells a range of model narrowboats and has some useful lists of ex-working boats.
Abacus Designs: Embroidery kits of a wide range of canal and waterway scences.
Canal Art: A family business, based in Northamptonshire, supplying painted canal ware.
Day-Star Theatre: All the dates and details for this canal theatre company.
Derek Pratt - Waterways Photo Library: Images from the leading waterways photographer whose work has been seen in books and magazines for many years.
Doug Myers Paintings: Includes his project is to paint all the bridges 135 (approx) over the Thames.
Folkwise: Songs of the waterways. Details of the show and CD.
Garth Allan: Waterways Artist and watercolours specialist.
Images of the BCN: A calendar of the Birmingham Canals which can be printed from the web pages.
Jane Selkirk: Traditional hand painted canalware painted by Jane Selkirk
Keepers Lock: A group who sing songs and tell stories about the great era of the canals in England
Mikron Theatre Company: Formed by Mike Lucas and Danny Schiller, now famous for its national waterways tour, aboard the narrowboat Tyseley.
Village Needlecraft: Embroidery kits featuring canal boats and scenes.

Boat Restoration

Historic Narrow Boat Owners Club: Dedicated to encourage the preservation, restoration and use of working and ex- working narrow boats.
The Horseboating Society: Promoting horseboating and preserving the heritage and skills of this once common form of transport.
The Narrow Boat Trust: A charity for restoring and preserving narrowboats.
Narrowboat Raymond: Raymond was the last wooden butty to be built at Braunston and probably the last wooden working boat built anywhere.
Steam narrow boat President: President, the preserved steam narrowboat is owned by the Black Country Living Museum at Dudley.
Wooden Canal Boat Society: Dedicated to saving, restoring and using some of the old wooden working boats of Britain's canals.

Boat Shows & Exhibitions

Boats on Show: Boat show at Penton Park, on the River Thames at Chertsey, Surrey - 16th to 18th May 2003
Crick Boat Show: Information about this annual event.
The Inland Waterways Exhibition: The biggest gathering of specialist narrowboat exhibitors under one roof
The National Boat, Caravan & Leisure Show: All the details of this annual show held at National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in February.

Books, Publications, Video etc.

Abebooks.com: Search this network of independent booksellers worldwide. Includes specialist book sellers selling new and secondhand waterways books.
Athene: Details of the 2 books "ATHENE": Anatomy of a Dream and "ATHENE": The Odyssey Continues.
Bournville 5: The making of a video telling the story of George Wiseman and the horse drawn boat Bournville 5 carrying milk to the Cadbury processing plant at Knighton
Britain's Waterways: Sample pages of this book by Brian Roberts.
Canal and Riverboat Magazine: Includes past articles, editorial and subscription information relating to this monthly publication.
Canal Boat & Inland Waterways: The boating magazine for the rivers and canals
First Mate Guides: Canal guides.
Greg Chapman's Waterways Guides: A site that provides updates for all seven of Nicholson's Guides and the three of Imray's guidebooks.
I.A.Recordings: Industrial Archaeology Recordings is a purely voluntary organisation with no paid officers. Waterways videos are included in their range.
J M Pearson & Son Ltd.: Publishers of the waterways guides.
Joseph Mason Bookseller: Secondhand Books about canals, rivers,river craft, inland waterways etc.
Laurence Hogg Productions: Waterways videos
Patterson Liddle: Book seller specialising in waterways books.
Robert Humm & Co.: Specialises in books about railways, other transport and industrial history.
S-K Productions: Makers of waterways videos.
Sutton Publishing: History publisher with many titles including canal and railway books.
Tempus Publishing: Publisher of Local History, Transport, Archaeology, Military History, Industrial Archaeology, etc. Includes a series of waterways books.
Transport Diversions Emporium: Books and videos.
Walking On Water: A book published by the Minerva Press which describes a journey down the spine of the inland waterways system by a 'canal-innocent'.
The Waterways Book Service: Retail Book Service that is part of the Belmont Group. This also includes the Belmont Press, publishers and book wholesalers.

Museums

Black Country Living Museum: Situated next to Dudley Tunnel with moorings for visiting boaters.
The Boat Museum: The Boat Museum in Ellesmere Port brings Britain's canal history to life, with exhibitions in the historic dock and the largest collection of inland craft.
The Canal Museum - Stoke Bruerne: Not a large museum but packed with interest, inside and out, and close to locks and Blisworth Tunnel.
Foxton Inclined Plane Trust: Foxton Canal Museum and Inclined Plane Trust giving details of this award winning museum, the Locks and Canal system.
London Canal Museum: The only London museum of inland waterways. Situated at Kings Cross.
The National Waterways Museum: A major waterways museum located in Gloucester Docks.
River Thames and Rowing Museum: Information on the museum and on Henley on Thames, where it is.
Waterways Museums: Twenty seven museums having waterway related collections.

Shops

Canal Bridge Stores: An on-line canal shop.
Canal Cargo: Canal maps and cruising guides, books, videos, gifts, chandlery and other canal items online.
The Canal Shop Company: Stocks books, maps, guides, t-shirts, oval brass plaques, needlework kits, videos, Rosie & Jim items & other waterway related items.
The Inland Waterways Association: News of activities and campaigns, books and other items for sale and links to some local branches.
MML Electrics: Lighting and electrical products for boats and caravans.

  


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