What's New

This page gives brief details of main updates to this site:

5 July 2008 - Articles from the July 2008 issue of the Newsletter (June 2008 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

10 June 2008 - Articles from the June 2008 issue of the Newsletter (May 2008 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

24 April 2008 - Articles from the May 2008 issue of the Newsletter (April 2008 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

8 April 2008 - Articles from the April 2008 issue of the Newsletter (March 2008 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

8 March 2008 - Articles from the March 2008 issue of the Newsletter (February 2008 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

9 February 2008 - Articles from the February 2008 issue of the Newsletter (January 2008 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

19 January 2008 - Updates to Waterways Events.

4 January 2008 - Articles from the January 2008 issue of the Newsletter (December 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated. Added page on The Itchen Navigation Heritage Trail Project and two pictures of working party on Mansbridge Lock.

24 December 2007 - Changes to links on the Waterways Links page.

9 December 2007 - Articles from the December 2007 issue of the Newsletter (November 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

6 November 2007 - Articles from the November 2007 issue of the Newsletter (October 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

11 October 2007 - Articles from the October 2007 issue of the Newsletter (September 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

8 September 2007 - Articles from the September 2007 issue of the Newsletter (August 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; Society Contacts - updated.

29 July 2007 - Articles from the August 2007 issue of the Newsletter (July 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; Society Contacts - updated.

9 July 2007 - Articles from the July 2007 issue of the Newsletter (June 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

8 June 2007 - Articles from the June 2007 issue of the Newsletter (May 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

9 May 2007 - Articles from the May 2007 issue of the Newsletter (April 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

17 April 2007 - Articles from the April 2007 issue of the Newsletter (March 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

2 March 2007 - Articles from the March 2007 issue of the Newsletter (February 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

22 February 2007 - Waterways Events - updated.

4 February 2007 - Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

3 February 2007 - Articles from the February 2007 issue of the Newsletter (January 2007 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

22 January 2007 - Waterways Events - updated.

15 January 2007 - Waterways Events - updated.

6 January 2007 - Articles from the January 2007 issue of the Newsletter (December 2006 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

8 December 2006 - Articles from the December 2006 issue of the Newsletter (November 2006 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; About the Society - updated.

5 November 2006 - Articles from the November 2006 issue of the Newsletter (October 2006 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

7 October 2006 - Articles from the October 2006 issue of the Newsletter (August 2006 issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

31 July 2006 - Articles from the August 2006 issue of the Newsletter (July issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

6 July 2006 - Articles from the July 2006 issue of the Newsletter (June issue archived); Waterways Events - updated.

10 June 2006 - Articles from the June 2006 issue of the Newsletter (May issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

2 May 2006 - Articles from the May 2006 issue of the Newsletter (April issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

10 April 2006 - Society Meetings - updated

7 April 2006 - Articles from the April 2006 issue of the Newsletter (March issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

6 March 2006 - Articles from the March 2006 issue of the Newsletter (February issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

6 February 2006 - Articles from the February 2006 issue of the Newsletter (December issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

5 December 2005 - Articles from the December 2005 issue of the Newsletter (November issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

17 November 2005 - Pages on the Andover Canal updated and pictures of the remains added.

7 November 2005 - Articles from the November 2005 issue of the Newsletter (October issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

20 October 2005 - Articles from the October 2005 issue of the Newsletter (August issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

27 July 2005 - Articles from the August 2005 issue of the Newsletter (July issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

7 July 2005 - Articles from the July 2005 issue of the Newsletter (June issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

9 June 2005 - Articles from the June 2005 issue of the Newsletter (May issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

16 May 2005 - Articles from the May 2005 issue of the Newsletter (April issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

8 April 2005 - Articles from the April 2005 issue of the Newsletter (March issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

7 March 2005 - Articles from the March 2005 issue of the Newsletter (February issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; About the Society - updated; added two new links on the Links page.

17 February 2005 - Waterways Events - updated

9 February 2005 - Articles from the February 2005 issue of the Newsletter (December issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated;

5 December 2004 - Articles from the December 2004 issue of the Newsletter (November issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated

10 November 2004 - Latest issue of the Newsletter now available as PDF file. Most issues of the Newsletter within the archive now available as PDF files.

5 November 2004 - Articles from the November 2004 issue of the Newsletter (October issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated

7 October 2004 - Articles from the October 2004 issue of the Newsletter (September issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; home page - updated; various pages for accessibility

18 August 2004 - Articles from the September 2004 issue of the Newsletter (August issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; Home page - updated; Sales page - updated; About the Society - updated.

30 July 2004 - Articles from the August 2004 issue of the Newsletter (July issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

1 July 2004 - Articles from the July 2004 issue of the Newsletter (May issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; Waterway Links - updated.

10 June 2004 - Waterways Events - updated.

7 June 2004 - After reviewing the size of all images for the Itchen Navigation, these have been reduced in file size to improve loading times (on average by about half). This has been achieved with little or no discernible reduction in picture quality.

9 May 2004 - All pages covering the Itchen Navigation have had various amendments, the most major of which is to show the size of images below matching thumbnails.

29 April 2004 - Articles from the May 2004 issue of the Newsletter (April issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

2 April 2004 - Articles from the April 2004 issue of the Newsletter (March issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

5 March 2004 - Articles from the March 2004 issue of the Newsletter (February issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; New site map page. These pages have "improved" layout.

18 February 2004 - Articles from the February 2004 issue of the Newsletter (January issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated. These pages (and this one) have "improved" layout.

11 January 2004 - Continuing with the policy of improving accessibility, the layout of all files within the archive have been modified. Anyone who has problems with this, please contact me.

8 January 2004 - Articles from the January 2004 issue of the Newsletter (December issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; new page created to show location of Chilworth Parish Hall using some material taken from Meetings page (link to www.streetmap.co.uk no longer gave desired result); Waterways Events - updated.

5 December 2003 - In line with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, I am starting to make changes to pages on this site to improve accessibility as recommended by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). Most of these changes should not be noticeable to most users. The first page published with these changes is the December 2003 issue of the Newsletter. Anyone who has problems with this, please contact me.

5 December 2003 - Articles from the December 2003 issue of the Newsletter (November issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

14 November 2003 - Articles from the November 2003 issue of the Newsletter (October issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

4 November 2003 - Pictures of the Bishopstoke to Mansbridge section of the Itchen Navigation added. I have amended/split the pages describing the route and created matching picture gallery pages, including a few older pictures at the same time. Some pictures added to Mansbridge to Gaters Mill & Woodmill picture gallery. Refinements to almost all pages about the Itchen Navigation also made.

20 October 2003 - I have added yet more pictures of the Itchen Navigation. I have amended/split the pages describing the route between Allbrook and Bishopstoke and also created matching picture gallery pages, including a few older pictures at the same time. Some pictures added to Brambridge to Allbrook picture gallery.

15 October 2003 - Added a site and web search facility using Google.

2 October 2003 - Articles from the October 2003 issue of the Newsletter (August issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; subscription rates updated on the About the Society page.

14 August 2003 - Articles from the August 2003 issue of the Newsletter (July issue archived).

13 July 2003 - Articles from the July 2003 issue of the Newsletter (June issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

10 June 2003 - Issues of the Newsletter from March 1997 to December 1998 added to the Newsletter Archive.

8 June 2003 - Articles from the June 2003 issue of the Newsletter (May issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated; Issues of the Newsletter for mid-1995 to February 1997 added to the Newsletter Archive.

21 May 2003 - Issues of the Newsletter for 1999 and 2000 added to the Newsletter Archive; index of Society meetings held in the last 10 years.

10 May 2003 - Articles from the May 2003 issue of the Newsletter (April issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated.

26 April 2003 - I have added some more pictures of the Itchen Navigation to various pages. I have amended/split the pages describing the route between Shawford and Allbrook and also created matching picture gallery pages. I have included a few older pictures as well. Some pictures added to other Itchen pages.

14 April 2003 - Articles from the April 2003 issue of the Newsletter (March issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Waterways Events - updated;

13 April 2003 - Over the last couple of months I have taken some more pictures of the Itchen Navigation. I have split each of the pages describing the route between Winchester and Shawford into two and also created matching picture gallery pages. I have included a few older pictures as well.

9 March 2003 - Articles from the March 2003 issue of the Newsletter (December issue archived); Stop Press note added to Newsletter archive; Society Meetings - updated

1 March 2003 - Society Meetings - updated

17 February 2003 - Addition of link to a site about the River Itchen.

26 January 2003 - Yesterday, I spent a pleasant, sunny, winter's afternoon walking along the Itchen Navigation near Shawford. I have added some of the photos I took to the relevant page as a start to an ambition to illustrate the Local Waterways pages.

18 January 2003 - Following the move of this website, I have updated and expanded the Links page to include sites with links to here.

5 January 2003 - updated / corrected webmaster email address across various pages

14 December 2002 - Waterways Events - updated; Articles from the December 2002 issue of the Newsletter (November issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Sales - the Sales Stand is to be closed; Links - new link added; About the Society - contacts updated

9 November 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the November 2002 issue of the Newsletter (October issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

13 October 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the October 2002 issue of the Newsletter (August issue archived); September issue added to archive; Society Meetings - updated

12 August 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the August 2002 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; email addresses updated on various pages; link to Chichester Canal Society web site added and other links checked; all reference to the defunct UK Waterways Network web ring removed

8 July 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the July 2002 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

10 June 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the June 2002 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

14 May 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the May 2002 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

11 April 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the April 2002 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; Sales - updated

10 March 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the March 2002 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived) - also extracts from two issues of the newsletter from 1999 added to archive; Society Meetings - updated; many other very minor changes to site format

10 February 2002 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Articles from the February 2002 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

12 December 2001 - Waterways Events 2002 - updated; Society Meetings - updated.

7 December 2001 - Waterways Events 2001-2 - updated; Articles from the December 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated ; Members' Exploits - the webmaster's entry in the 2001 BCN Challenge Cruise.

12 November 2001 - Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Articles from the November 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

24 October 2001 - There was no September Newsletter and sorry but this update has been late owing to computer problems (had to reinstall Windows and everything else!!).  Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Articles from the October 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

3 August 2001 - Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Articles from the August 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

16 July 2001 - Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Articles from the July 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated; updates to the Sales page (sorry its all a bit late)

7 June 2001 - Members' Exploits - a new feature to enable members to show off a little. To kick this idea off, the webmaster's trip last year on the BCN is used.

2 June 2001 - Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Articles from the June 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

27 April 2001 - Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Articles from the May 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived); Society Meetings - updated

10 April 2001 - Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Articles from the April 2001 issue of the Newsletter (previous issue archived)

4 April 2001 - Society Meetings - updated including different mapping of new meeting venue

2 March 2001 - New page - Newsletter Archive - to contain articles from previous issues of the Newsletter; Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Society Meetings - updated including fuller details of new meeting venue; Articles from the March 2001 issue of the Newsletter

13 February 2001 - Waterways Events 2001 - updated; Society Meetings - updated including fuller details of new meeting venue; Articles from the February 2001 issue of the Newsletter

7 January 2001 - Waterways Events 2000-01 - updated; Society Meetings - updated including fuller details of new meeting venue

13 December 2000 - Articles from the December 2000 issue of the Newsletter; Waterways Events 2000-01 - updated; Society Meetings - updated including brief details of new meeting venue

22 November 2000 - Articles from the November 2000 issue of the Newsletter (sorry its late again); Waterways Events 2000-01 - updated; Society Meetings - updated

14 October 2000 - Sales List updated; Links page updated; Articles from the October 2000 issue of the Newsletter; Waterways Events 2000 - updated; Society Meetings - updated

6 September 2000 - Correction to date of October meeting

8 August 2000 - Subscriptions and Secretary address updated; Articles from the August 2000 issue of the Newsletter; Waterways Events 2000 - updated; Society Meetings - updated

23 July 2000 - Articles from the July 2000 issue of the Newsletter (sorry for the delay); Waterways Events 2000 - updated; Society Meetings - updated

11 June 2000 - New page on the Hampshire Avon; Articles from the June 2000 issue of the Newsletter; Waterways Events 2000 - updated; Society Meetings - updated

21 May 2000 - Articles from the May 2000 issue of the Newsletter; Waterways Events 2000 - updated; Society Meetings - updated

7 April 2000 - This page!! New articles from the April 2000 issue of the Newsletter; Waterways Events 2000 - updated; Society Meetings - updated