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background-color: #ffffff;"> <h1 align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><u>Welcome to CanalGuide.co.uk -your starting point for discovering the canals</u></strong></span></h1> <p align="center"><img alt="" src="/images21/RTG Spring Newsletter Black Prince .jpg" style="width: 550px; height: 366px;" /></p> <p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;">Photo Courtesy of Black Prince Holidays.</span><font color="#337AB7" size="3%"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a alt="here" class="red" href="https://www.riverthames.co.uk/thamesnewsletter/2021.html" title="here"></a> </span></font><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></p> <h2 align="center" padding="5%"><font color="#337AB7" size="3%"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Plenty of information and photos of<a alt="Canals" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canals/" title="Canals"> the UK canals</a> <a alt="Canal Boating Holidays" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalboatholidays/" title="Canal Boating Holidays">canal boating holidays</a>, <a alt="Canal boat daily hire" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalboatingholidays" title="Canal boat daily hire">canal boat hire</a>, <a alt="Moornings" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalmoorings/" title="Canal Moorings">canal moorings</a> and skilled <a alt="Boat Builders" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalboatbuilders" title="Boat Builders">canal boat builders</a>.</span></font></h2> </div> <div align="center" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> <table width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="30%"> <h3 align="center"><font color="#337AB7"><a alt="Canal Boating Holidays" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/pagerequests/click.php?id=100" itemtype="url" title="Canal Boating Holidays"><img alt="Friday 16th Square" itemprop="image" src="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/images/CG-work-FRiday16th-square.jpg" style="width: 90%; height: 27%;" title="Friday 16th Square" /></a></font></h3> <h3 align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u><font color="#337AB7"><a alt="Canal Boating Holidays" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalboatholidays/" itemtype="url" title="Canal Boating Holidays">Canal Boating Holidays</a></font></u></b></span></h3> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#1554a2">You choose where and when you drive</font><br /> <br /> <b><font color="#1554a2"><a alt="Canal Boating Holidays" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalboatholidays/" itemtype="url" title="Canal Boating Holidays">More information</a> </font></b></span></p> </td> <td width="30%"> <h3 align="center"><img alt="Mast Head" itemprop="image" src="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/mastheads/hp/Gumtree-canoe-SW.jpg" style="width: 90%; height: 27%;" title="Canal Masthead" /></h3> <h3 align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u><font color="#337AB7"><a alt="Canal Boat Hire" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalboatingholidays/" itemtype="url" title="Daily canal Boat Hire">Canal Boat Hire</a></font></u></b></span></h3> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#1554a2">Arrange a day's canal boat hire<br /> from a number of established operators</font><br /> <b><font color="#1554a2"><a alt="Canal Boat Hire" class="red" href="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/canalboatingholidays/" itemtype="url" title="Canal Boat Hire">More information</a> </font></b></span></p> </td> <td width="30%"> <h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.canalguide.co.uk/canals/" itemtype="url" title="Canal Guide"><img alt="Canal Image" itemprop="image" src="https://www.canalguide.co.uk/images/canal.jpg" style="width: 90%; 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