It isn’t for everyone. boats require a lot of maintenance, plus, some people don’t like the way water moves their home around. but others love the freedom and adventure of boat life, and living on a canal boat would be equally fun. how to go about living on a canal boat. you need to take your time when choosing a canal boat to live on.. The boats were frozen in and couldn’t move. until this winter past, that scene seemed like one from another age. i was born in 1963 and the picture of coal and steel, bricks and sand being transported by canal similarly seems truly historic.. Life on the english waterways – page 2 there were once many different jobs associated with canals and rivers. some people lived on the land and came to work by the canal each day, while others lived and worked on the boats. jobs linked with the waterways the waterways created employment for a large number of people. there were lots.
Near christmas time, 1915, a female reporter and an illustrator for the brooklyn daily eagle, visited a few of the many canal boats and barges moored for the winter in erie basin “in search of a story about holiday preparations and winter life.”. Watch this video to take a tour of david's narrowboat, learn how he earns an income as a freelance journalist, where he “parks” his boat, and about the joys & challenges of life afloat.. This short film about life on the canals is a revealing portrait of the positives and the negatives of living on a narrowboat. the film was made in the second year of my ba degree in media..
