When James Brindley built the first British canal in the early 1760s, few people could have imagined the impact it would have on the nation’s way of life. There was plenty of opposition to “Brindley’s ...
WHAT is it about boats that’s so irresistible? Not giant, lumbering cruise liners or the cross-channel ferries — but put me on a sailboat, a rowing boat, even a pedalo carved like a swan, and I’m ...