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| The Friends of Raymond Braunston |
Probably the last wooden narrowboat built to work on the canals, 'Raymond' is the boat that has been photographed as 'Bella' in the Bert & Betty books! | ||
| The National Waterways Museum |
The National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port, Gloucester Docks and Stoke Bruerne bring the history of Britain’s waterways to life. Through interactive displays, recordings of former dock and canal workers, archive film footage and exhibits you can explore the fascinating story of this revolutionary transport system. Climb aboard historic boats and discover what life was like living and working on our waterways. Our collection of historic boats, the largest in the world, includes narrowboats, canal and river tugs, concrete barges and a steam powered dredger. And, as each museum is housed in a historic waterways location you can see how our canals are used today. |
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| The National Waterways Museum Stoke Bruerne |
Working models, videos, pictorial and three dimensional displays bring the old waterways to life and the museum is right beside the canal with a flight of locks and a tunnel! | ||
| The National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port |
At the National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port we bring Britain's canal history to life. Explore the former canal port and experience life aboard our collection of canal and river boats. Discover the stories of the people who worked on our canals and rivers through interactive displays, film and audio recordings. And step back in time at the dock workers’ cottages and see how people lived from the 1840s to the 1950s. Designed by Thomas Telford under the direction of William Jessop, this was a working canal port until the 1950s. The scheme of locks, docks and warehouses together with the pump and engine room which provided the power for boats and cranes, blacksmiths forge and stables vividly recreate what life was like at the turn of the century. The modern visitor centre has displays showing the building and working of traditional narrowboats. The museum also has exhibitions in the various historic port buildings, a well-stocked shop and a cafe serving hot meals, snacks and beverages. |
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| The National Waterways Museum Gloucester Docks |
Housed in a Victorian warehouse, the museum recreates the story of the people who worked on the waterways and on the dockside. You can learn how locks work, navigate a boat and find out how hard life would have been as a dock worker. | ||
| The Boat Museum Society | The Boat Museum Society came into existence in 1971 and was formed by a group of waterway enthusiasts who were very concerned that the old working craft of the canals and rivers would completely disappear as the nature of the waterway system changed from freight transport to leisure use. The principal aim of The Boat Museum Society is thus the preservation of the historic boats, skills, knowledge and way of life of the waterways. The Society founded the Boat Museum (now the National Waterways Museum), which it continues to actively support. |
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| The London Canal Museum | Here you can see inside a narrowboat cabin and learn about the history of London's canals, the people who lived and worked on them and the horses that pulled their boats. | ||
| The Black Country Living Museum | Historic buildings from all around the Black Country have been moved and rebuilt at this wonderful Museum, in the heart of industrial Britain. Electric tramcars and trolleybuses transport visitors back in time to the canal-side village, where costumed demonstrators and working craftsmen show you their skills. | ||
| Foxton Canal Museum Leicestershire |
Models, interactive displays, and a wide range of waterway artefacts tell the story of the Foxton Lift, the locks, the waterways and the people who lived on the canals. | ||
| Linithgow Canal Centre Scotland |
The Canal Museum has a sales counter, a short audio-visual presentation, and admission is free. Short and long boat trips are provided here by volunteers every weekend from Easter to September. | ||
| The Kennet & Avon Canal Museum Wiltshire |
The information system at the museum uses 1500 graphic images, 160 minutes of sound and 10 minutes of video and animation to tell the story of the Kennet & Avon canal. | ||
| The Virtual Waterways Archive Catalogue | This site provides a free online teaching and learning resource, structured to tie in with the National Curriculum for history, English, art & design, and design & technology from Key Stages 2 to 3. | ||
| The Horseboating Society | For over 200 years, horsedrawn boats were one of the main forms of transporting goods. but a horsedrawn boat is a rare sight on most of our canals today. The Horseboating Society exists to promote horseboating and to preserve the heritage and skills of this once common form of transport. |
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| Leo McNeir |
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