Crime along the cutWelcome to Cuckoo Tales. These pages are a collection of clippings from between the covers of the Cuckoo, the magazine of the Chesterfield Canal Trust. The collection covers the weird and wonderful, poignant and trivial, hard facts and myths and legends. We hope you enjoy them.
Crime along the cutOur first group of stories concern some of the more unsavoury goings on along the towpath. Poaching. Vandalism. Corpses in the Cut.
OrnithologyCuckoos' are not the only metaphorical birds to be found along the canal. We once had a Robin of legendary fame
A Dash Down the Ages2000 years of history in the vicinity of Dixons Lock, Heres an alternative view
I hope you have enjoyed these Cuckoo Tales. Do you have a paticular favorite article from the pages of Cuckoo Magazine? Alternativly do you know a good yarn as yet unpublished? If the answer is yes please let me know, and hopefuly we can share them with the world
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