About the Website & Blog

The UKCanals Network website was started in 1999 - 2000.
The website was started because of my love of canals, rivers, waterways and boating in general. At that time there were very few websites about canals, it was the days before broadband, and accessing the internet then was very slow and quite expensive. I remember having some very heavy phone bills after I started building the website as all the editing had to be done on-line.
OK so I started the website, but then the question, 'what to put on the website'.
I decided to make it an information site, and to make lists of all the other canal related websites that I could find.
Over the years the website has grown with lots of new lists added as the number of websites grew.
Information articles were added, and now the website has grown into many hundreds of pages, and features top on the Google search pages in many areas; and features high on the UKWRS rankings.
I work on the website almost daily, adding new features, articles and adding to the listings.
The main reason for starting this blog is to keep regular visitors informed of updates to the website, to provide news on canal related things and sometimes I may have a rant about things in general.
Your comments good or bad are always welcome.
Ken