... B ON PARADE - Competitors and boatmen with winners of the Anglian Water Four Waters £5,000 final at Grafham. Our picture shows, in the front row (left to right) Julian Hubbard, Chris Howitt, Bob Church, Mark Haycock and Mike Keohane had spread out more ...

... M Turning up trumps are (from left) John Joseph Reape, Neil French, Vincent Doherty and D When Chinese boatmen needed something to while away the hours on the Yangtze River, the origins of 25s were born Ancient manuscripts housed in the Shanghai Museum ...

... cent Doherty and D hants were s this wealth ownfall sty, which ran one Chinese by boatmen to drive them ed to find new r boats on the ...

... the canals were still largely used by commercial carriers. “Old working boats were converted, cabins created and retired boatmen were employed to steer them along stretches of waterway seldom seen by other members of ...

... Q) 'almost like an r seen myself never know only beaten hand’ CE picture ( nding up after a nt e south west coast hinese boatmen de for a while and dur ay they began teac ey went g the centuries wh _the game retair and it still played i nd .‘a agt -~ ...

... looked down upon and classed as foreigners.” Loma is hoping to keep the past alive by collecting oral history from former boatmen as few written records were kept of their lives. As part of Adult Leamers Week, Loma will be giving a talk at the museum on ...

... Giant boatman MOVes to village BOATMEN are a common sight along the Cosgrove canalside but school children made a special trip to meet one that was larger than life and sculpted out of steel. Th e sculpture was unveiled this week and through the entwined ...

... traced her family back to the 1700 s and all were boat people, in fact her father was bom on the canal. “The majority of the boatmen worked for companies and were paid a wage,” said Loma. “They were the lonry drivers of their day and worked from dawn to dusk ...

... Chronicle & ECHO wum ON the face of it, the loss of tiny insects such as water boatmen and shrimps from the River Nene might seem inconsequential. But the effect higher up the food chain could be catastrophic. In fact, the Environment Agency says that ...

... Canal was officially unveiled at Braunston by actor David Suchet at the weekend. Visitors to the Ownerships boat show joined boatmen and canal lovers for the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to Bill and Rose Whitlock. The couple were one of the last families ...

... tedious (6) 5 Stresses the right place for sleepers (10) 6 It goes up before the tax (5) 7 Measure a paved area (4) 10 Operatic boatmen? (10) 12 Given, and ideally shouldn’t be paid back (8) 15 A job the French create for a preacher (7) 16 Delhi's defensive ...

... it's a lock-up (6) 5 Being betrothed, went into battle! (7) 6 The level at which a space-craft operates? (6,5) 7 For these boatmen, it's terrible in turbulent oceans (9) 10 Hygienic condition of assorted linens and laces (11) 11 Kind of paper used for firing ...