narrowboats

A must-see for canal boat fans, it has many historic narrowboats moored in the basin.

Readers' tips: winter family days out 2011

In its heyday, Limehouse Basin was a working dock, a place of intense activity as foreign cargoes were unloaded on to narrowboats and transported to the north.

A working life: the lock keeper Mark King 2010

Some of her tasks include clearing the canals of invasive weeds, helping to ensure the survival of wildlife, and helping barges and narrowboats through the many locks in her region.

A working life: the lock keeper Mark King 2010

Rising abruptly from the plain and its hobbity world of thatch and narrowboats, Beeston Castle is every warlike child's dream.

Britain's best views: Cheshire 2010

And one of my strongest memories of those days - it can only date from 1969 and 1970 - is the Fellows, Morton & Clayton narrowboats that still carried cargo along the Grand Union.

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

And one of my strongest memories of those days - it can only date from 1969 and 1970 - is the Fellows, Morton & Clayton narrowboats that still carried cargo along the Grand Union.

The Friends of Raymond 2008

At worst, my narrowboats would stop running, and you would have to find other merchants to deal with.

Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

Dozens of men trudged along the towpath — a small road alongside the canal — pulling the four barges and two narrowboats that made up their convoy.

Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

In a psychedelic way it reminded Nancy of the layout of the narrowboats her parents had hired for canal holidays when she was a child.

Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002

Others are seeking support, or hard cash, to lift their narrowboats out of decades of disrepair.

diamond geezer 2010