The Daily Telegraph magazine - Waterways cover (12 May 1972)

Good condition for age - yellowing to page edges - tiny piece of paper missing at bottom and top of front cover

CHAOS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN - There was a knot in the Red Tape... and residents of Duncan Terrace, Islington, found themselves with a road they had neither asked for nor wanted. Patrick Marnham reports just one example of bureaucracy gone beserk
One and a half pages

2,000 MILES OF OPPORTUNITY - Britain's network of canals is the neglected monument to the engineering skills of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Weeds have overgrown many of them; "improvements" have destroyed others. But the commercial advantages are being recognised again, and their recreational role is growing. Now, however, comes the proposal to replace the single Waterways Board with a cumbersome number of area authorities. Is this one last betrayal?
6 pages

BORDERLINE CASE - In places, the Montgomery Canal is today no more than a dry and dusty ditch. But boats plied up and down it until the mid-Thirties. Paul Atterbury describes the busy life of the past. Can something of that life be revived?
Two and a half pages

THE LAST PEACE OF LIGURIA - On the whole of the Mediterranean Riviera it seems there are only five unspoiled villages - the Cinque Terre, south-east of Genoa. Four can be reached only by train, footpath or sea. The fifth, Riomaggiore has already been opened up. The Italian Government proposes to spend millions on a road link to the five - part is already built. With this road, the last stretch of Riviera will inevitably be ruined. Already the asphalt is only one mile from Manarola. Edwin Mullins walked the cliff path between the villages. Reopening the English canals could be considered progress in improving the environment; bringing cars into the Cinque Terre could be disaster
4 pages

CHEQUERED CAREERS - Who are the compilers of our most famous crosswords? How did they become crossword makers, and how do they work? Anthony Grey, the Reuter correspondent who in two years of confinement in Peking compiled a series of over 200 crosswords has conducted an investigation.
Featuring Alan Cash, Raymond Dawson, Patrick Cotter, Adrian Bell, Edmund Akenhead, Joyce Johnson, Leonard Burgess
Three and a half pages

A VAMPIRE'S IMAGE IS WORSE THAN ITS BITE - Anthony Masters examines their bloody history
Two and a half page feature