narrow boat

Visitors will see Bonny being harnessed up ready to take the recently refurbished narrow boat Gifford along the Shropshire Union Canal.

UNDERCOVER DINERS' The judges said: "The Narrow Boat at Weedon gives its customers the chance to watch the canal flow past as they enjoy an elegant Sunday lunch.

He has set up a company, North East Narrow Boats and has nearly completed a handmade narrow boat at a yard in the Swales Industrial Estate, near Howdon Lane.

His journey on Cressy in 1939-40 was related in Narrow Boat (1944).

Our previous, very positive, experiences were on narrow boats but we find it much more enjoyable on our wide-beam."

Aboard a cosy narrow boat in the sky decked out with glitter means unique sparkle.

The main reasons for the narrow boat's soaring popularity were freedom and escape from everyday life and sheer relaxation.

It has joined forces with London-based architectural ironmonger Harbrine to commission a freight narrow boat, which will be used to supply goods to construction projects at the Olympic site.

The 35ft long narrow boat Millie 1 led the way along part of the route, which runs from Grangemouth, on the Forth, to Bowling.

CANAL LIFE: | |How about this narrow boat, above, as a floating home with a plush living room, pictured right?

POLICE and firefighters are investigating a suspected arson attack which destroyed a narrow boat moored on a Birmingham canal near a historic bridge.

Warwick narrow boat hire company Kate Boats was treated to lights, camera and action when ex-professional footballer Dion Dublin arrived to film a sequence of shots going up and down the canal on one of their fleet.

The 60-year-old was honoured by his friends at The Safe Anchor Trust who formed a cortege of narrow boats to carry his specially commissioned coffin, complete with a picture of his beloved narrow boat 'Leet Gi'en', along the Calder and Hebble Navigation.