WaterwaysIn the Victorian era, the name Bradshaw became synonymous with reliable information on travelling the nation's blossoming network of railways. Published in 1904, Canals and Navigable Rivers was the first guide to planning journeys on the inland waterways of England and Wales. Noting bridges, locks, ... | |
WaterwaysWhen a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester and built a canal to serve his coalmines. The Bridgewater Canal was the sensation of the age and led others to follow the example of the enterprising Duke of Bridgewater. From his ... | |
Other, Railways, WaterwaysSome of the richest copper mines in the United Kingdom, a rare Cornish canal and a railway uniquely engineered to convey the minerals by gravity combine to make a fascinating story. The wealth bought by copper, as well as by tin and granite, extracted from this corner of Bodmin Moor, built the ... | |
Waterways, MaritimeThis book completes Mike Taylor's three-volume coverage of craft on the Humber's inland waterways. Volume one dealt with tugs and towing barges and volume two with tanker barges. This final instalment concentrates on the story of the dry cargo barges that plied the Humber waterways from the early ... | |
WaterwaysThroughout the length and breadth of England, no major navigation is so lost in obscurity as the Hereford & Gloucester Canal. Unlike its famous neighbour, the Thames & Severn, with which comparisons may be drawn, all links with living memory have inevitably broken and apart from a brief account ... From the series Canal Histories | |
WaterwaysHorncastle's link with the River Witham which enabled navigation south to The Wash, and north to Lincoln, then via Fossdyke to the River Trent. The opening of the GNR's Lincolnshire Loop Line sent the canal into decline. The canal was officially declared defunct in 1889 and so closed what had ... From the series Canal Histories | |
WaterwaysA thorough history of the building, use, decline and restoration of the canal, well illustrated with many contemporary photographs and some rare | |
WaterwaysAnother volume in Foxline's excellent “Scenes From The Past” series, this one focussing on the waterways of Lancashire and one of its carriers, J Monk & Sons. The customary mix of descriptive history, anecdotes and a wide range of pictures make this another fascinating volume. From the series Scenes from the Past | |
WaterwaysThe Llangollen Canal is now the most popular and busiest pleasure cruising waterway in the British Waterways' network. Running for 46 miles from the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal near Nantwich, it wends its way across lovely Cheshire and Shropshire countryside, then into the spectacular ... | |
Waterways, Maritime, OtherI think it takes the eye of a stranger to appreciate the special character of a place and see things that local people take for granted…' Using his ‘stranger's eye', the author took many photographs of Merseyside in the 1950s, including highly atmospheric views of streets, docks and ferries on ... | |
Waterways, Maritime, OtherMerseyside has changed radically in the five or six decades since the photographs in this book were taken, both physically and more dramatically, in its character, atmosphere and social scene – nobody visiting the area today could imagine it only half a century ago. In the second volume of his ... | |
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