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<body> <h1 style="text-align:center;color:blue;font-size:30px"><strong>Southampton Canal Society</strong></h1> <hr /> <div style="float:left"><img src="gif/scslog2c.gif" alt="Canal Society Logo" style="width:238px;height:128px;margin:20px 20px;" /></div> <p>The Southampton Canal Society welcomes all those interested in the inland waterways to our home page. We are not a large group but we do fly the 'canals flag' here on the south coast of England.</p> <p>Please explore this site and find out all about the Society. You can also find details about some of the inland waterways of southern Hampshire.</p> <div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <p><strong>If you are viewing this text, your browser lacks the ability to read frames (or has them turned off).</strong></p> <p>Don't worry, you can still enjoy our site. All the pages can be viewed from the contents page. Please come inside!</p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"> <h3><a href="itchen/itchen_ind.htm" target="_top">Itchen Navigation</a></h3> <p>A major part of the Society’s website has been updated and enlarged. As a result of being asked to give a talk to the Surrey & Hampshire Canal Society on the Itchen Navigation, I decided to add some new photographs I had taken last September into that section of the Society’s website.</p> <p>Then looking at what was already there, I felt these pages a little bit "old-hat" and could do with a bit of a re-vamp. Some of the work I had done to existing pictures to make them suitable for the website didn’t look as good as it might. I also found some slides taken from the 1970s to the 1990s. (By the way, I have been looking for about 30-40 more slides of the waterway I know I took in 1976 but I can’t find them - if anyone knows where they are I would be very pleased to hear from them.)</p> <p>I had put the first information about the Navigation on this website in 1999. Then in 2003 I included a selection of pictures. At that time, I kept the descriptions of sections of the route separate from galleries of photographs showing the waterway. However, but now I felt that that was a bit too cumbersome to use so now the pictures have been incorporated into the descriptive pages and in a new way.</p> <p>The text has been updated and expanded and the number of pictures increased by more than 25% to some 360. The earliest picture dates from 1843 but most are from the period 1975 to 2009. And the layout and look of the pages have been improved - at least I hope you’ll agree that it has.</p> <p>So go and look at <a href="itchen/itchen_ind.htm" target="_top">the new pages</a> on the Itchen Navigation. Have a look and, maybe as a result, you might find yourself taking a walk and looking at the "real thing."</p> <p class="credit">Peter Oates</p> </div> <hr style="width:70%" /> <div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <p class="icon" style="width:100%"><a href="contents.htm" tabindex="1"><img src="gif/contents3.gif" class="icon32" alt="" /><br /> Contents Page</a></p> <p class="small">If you have any difficulty navigating this site, please contact the <a href="mailto:scs@whitenap.plus.com" tabindex="2" title="Email the Web Site manager">Web Site manager</a> (Peter Oates)</p> </div> <hr /> <div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  <table class="wbring" style="margin:0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" summary="UK Waterways web ring navigation box"> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><img src="graphic/navbarlogo.jpg" alt="Logo" style="width:50px;height:50px;" /></td> <td class="webring" style="text-align:left;border-bottom:2px solid navy"> <span class="large"><b>UK Waterways</b></span> <span class="small"> web ring member</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="webring" align="center"> <a href="http://P.webring.com/hub?ring=waterways&id=28&hub" target="new"> See All Sites</a>   <a href="http://P.webring.com/wrman?ring=waterways&addsite" target="new"> Join</a>   <a href="http://P.webring.com/go?ring=waterways&id=28&random" target="new">Random</a>   <a href="http://P.webring.com/go?ring=waterways&id=28&prev" target="new"> << Prev</a>   <a href="http://P.webring.com/go?ring=waterways&id=28&next" target="new"> Next >></a>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 10px"> </p>  <table class="brvnet" style="margin:0 auto" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="3" summary="UK Canals web ring navigation box"> <tr> <td colspan="5" align="center"><span style="font: bold 14px Verdana,Arial,san-serif;">UK Canals web ring</span><br /> <span style="font: 9px Verdana,Arial,san-serif;">Ring Owner: <a href="mailto:webmaster@ukcanals.net">Ken Fairhurst</a> Site: <a href="http://www.ukcanals.net">UK Canals</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bravenet"><a href="http://pub41.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=3463023835&action=prev&siteid=38155" target="new">PREV</a></td> <td class="bravenet"><a href="http://pub41.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=3463023835&action=list&siteid=38155" target="new">LIST</a></td> <td class="bravenet"><a href="http://pub41.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=3463023835&action=random&siteid=38155" target="new">RANDOM</a></td> <td class="bravenet"><a href="http://pub41.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=3463023835&action=join&siteid=38155" target="new">JOIN</a></td> <td class="bravenet"><a href="http://pub41.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=3463023835&action=next&siteid=38155" target="new">NEXT</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" style="text-align:center"><img src="gif/poweredby.gif" class="icon16" alt="Powered by Bravenet" /><a style="font:10px tahoma,arial;text-decoration: none;vertical-align:50%" href="http://www.bravenet.com/" target="_new">Powered by Bravenet</a></td> </tr> </table>   <p class="alternate"><a href="http://www.waterwaysdirectory.com" target="_blank"> <img src="gif/find_wat_dir.gif" alt="Find us in waterwaysdirectory.com" width="74" height="31" /></a></p> <p class="alternate"><a href="http://www.waterways.org.uk" target="_blank"><img src="graphic/corpmem.jpg" width="133" height="67" alt="IWA Corporate member" /></a></p> </div> <hr /> <table style="width:100%" summary="Copyright and navigation links"> <tr> <td style="width:89%" valign="top"> <p class="small">Send your comments to the <a href="mailto:scs@whitenap.plus.com" title="Email the Web Site manager" tabindex="21">Web Site manager</a> (Peter Oates)</p> <p class="small">© Southampton Canal Society 1999 - 2010. Except where otherwise indicated, information on these pages may be reproduced provided permission is obtained from the Web Site manager beforehand and due acknowledgement made to the Society.</p> <p class="tiny">Page created 19 January 1999 - last updated 2 February 2010.<br /> Site redesigned 12 November 1999. Site last updated 7 August 2010.</p> </td> <td style="width:3%"> </td> <td class="icon"><a href="contents.htm" tabindex="22"><img class="icon32" src="gif/contents3.gif" alt="" /><br /> Contents Page</a></td> </tr> </table> </body>