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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
So go and look at the new pages 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."
Peter Oates
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