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Inland Waterways Association

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Inland Waterways Association

Formed to campaign for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and sensitive development of British canals and rivers. One of its founders was the author Robert Aickman. The author Elizabeth Jane Howard was employed as part-time secretary to the Association, where she and Aickman met and had a affair.

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Robert Aickman

Robert Aickman, 1914 - 1981, author and co-founder of the Inland Waterways As...

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