Introduction
For the first few years of my working life I was to technician in the building department of a college before moving on to become a Secondary School teacher off Design & Technology (as it became). I did teach a little bit of IT but it was not until later years I had the idea of building my own website to share my interest in all aspects of canals and photographer. Full time teaching takes up a lot of time so it wasn't until I retired that I set my mind to creating my own website and this is the result.
My first introduction to the inland waterways was in 1969 when my sister and I joined an Aunt & Uncle with her daughter for a week on the River Avon. I really enjoyed the week and took a dozen black & white pictures with an old Kodak camera. One of my pictures got first prize in a church photographic completion, so there we have it, at the age 11 I became interested in photography and waterways! The picture, which is shown below, is the lock between the River Avon and the River Severn.
