Hi all, and a Happy New Year to all the folk on the list. Hoping you can help me. I've been searching the newspaper archives for references to boatmen - I have boatman ancestors - and I came across a couple of articles referring to a Boatman's Bethel, or floating chapel, which was set up in Chester in 1877/78. Does anyone know if any photographs of this exist, or have any additional details of it? I am trying to put together a page or two on the web about canal boatmen in general, using the newspaper articles I've been collecting for a number of years now. It seemed a bit daft to have an archive of material and not to make it available to anyone else who might be interested. It's early days yet, but I said I wanted something to be up and running by the New Year. which I have at least managed. Better than nothing, but a long way to go!!!!!! If anyone's interested, the website is www.spellweaver-online.co.uk. The last two pages of the site are the canal information, the rest is the fashion jewellery we sell for a living. If nayone has information which I could include, I'd be pleased to do so. I can see my canal boatmen taking over the site in the end, not just a couple of pages! Angela