 | Book - Canal & River Sections of the Aire & Calder Navigation Ref: 1688
by Mike Taylor.Since the early 1700s, the Aire and Calder Navigation has held the position of Britain's most successful inland waterway, competing realistically with the railways after their arrival.This book depicts both the waterway itself and its furniture, as well as the large variety of vessels using it.Paperback. 144 pages. 15.6cms x 23.4cms approx. Black and white photos or drawings on most pages.
Price: £9.99
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 | Book - The Arun Navigation Ref: 1949
by P.A.L. Vine.The River Arun rises near Horsham and flows 37 miles to the English Channel at Littlehampton. A 1785 Act of Parliament enabled the river to be improved to Pallingham, for a canal to be built up to Newbridge, and for another canal to cut off the wide sweep of the river by Pulborough.Eventually the opening of the Wey and Arun Junction Canal in 1816 allowed barges from the Arun to reach the Thames. This link was broken 55 years later but the river continued to be used for local traffic until the 1920s.Soft back. 16.5cms x 23.5cms. Illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Updated and revised edition, 2007.
Price: £12.99
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 | Book - Clinging On Ref: 754
by Gerald Box. Sub-titled - The Moira cut, coal and the last days of carrying.The story of the revival of coal trading in 1969 as a means to save the Ashby Canal from dereliction. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs.Soft back. 109 pages, 14.9cms x 21.1cms approx.
Price: £9.00
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 | Book - Shakespeare's Avon Ref: 1299
by Jamie Davies.This is a history of the river from the first mentions of making it navigable by the Earl of Warwick in the early 1400s to the end of the 1900s.Soft back. 152 pages. 14.8cms x 21cms approx. Illustrated with black & white photos and drawings.
Price: £8.95
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 | Book - A Postcard From Shakespeare's Avon Ref: 2019
by Jan Dobrzynski & Keith Turner.Flowing for nearly 100 miles through gently rolling countryside, the Avon is one of the most quintessentially English rivers in the country.This book takes the reader on a journey in words and pictures through the five counties traversed by the Avon, using images from more than 250 postcards drawn from the authors' collections.Soft back. 160 pages. 17.2cms x 24.8cms approx. Black & white photos.
Price: £12.99
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 | Book - The River Avon (Pictorial History) Ref: 1787
by Josephine Jeremiah.The River Avon has been navigable between Tewkesbury and Stratford-upon-Avon ever since 1639, and navigation is still being planned to increase this to Warwick. The navigation was restored between 1950 and 1974 and is now much used again.Making skilful use of old prints and photographs, Josephine reveals riverside life over two centuries in towns and villages along the river, together with mills, bridges, fords, ferries, locks, weirs and boats.Hard back. 128 pages. 18.9cms x 25.3cms. Black & white photos.
Price: £13.50
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 | Book - London's Lost Route to Basingstoke Ref: 482
by P.A.L. Vine.This historical account of the life of the canal, first published in 1968, has been extensively revised and brings the story up to date. It describes the restoration of the canal by the Surrey & Hampshire Canal Society, formed in 1966, culminating in its reopening by the Duke of Kent in 1991.Hardback. 235 pages. 16cms x 22.4cms approx. Illustrated with over 70 photographs, line drawings and maps.Normal price £14.99
Price: £10.50
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 | Book - Basingstoke Canal Ref: 1714
by Dieter Jebens & Roger Cansdale.The Basingstoke Canal was built towards the end of the 'great canal mania' in the eighteenth century. It was intended to provide a transport route to and from London via the Wey and the Thames, but the expectations of the owners were never realised and no dividends were ever paid to the shareholders. In 1866 the Canal Company declared itself bankrupt.The canal passed through various owners until the local county councils were persuaded to buy it and with a partnership with the Canal Society and other voluntary bodies it was reopened in 1991.Soft back. 128 pages. 16.5cms x 23.6cms approx. Illustrated with black & white photos and drawings.
Price: £12.99
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 | Book - The Other Sixty Miles Ref: 2027
by Richard Chester-Browne.A survey of the abandoned canals of Birmingham and the Black Country carried out by Richard when he was a student in 1974-7, with some later amendments.Soft back. 48 pages. 21cms x 29.6cms approx. Illustrated with black & white maps and photos.
Price: £4.95
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 | Book - Birmingham Canal Navigations Ref: 649
by Ray Shill.The Birmingham Canal Navigations lie at the heart of the British canal network and have a rich heritage that spans over two centuries. It served the busiest and most concentrated industrial region of the country.Ray Shill examines the industrial archeology of the network, looking at the structures, trade work and craft on the waterway, as well as providing detailed maps of the network's various sections. He also considers the BCN's cottage numbering system.Softback. 128 pages. 16.5cms x 23.6cms approx. Black and white photos or drawings on most pages.
Price: £12.99
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 | Book - Birmingham's Canals Ref: 688
by Ray Shill.This book illustrates Birmingham's canal heritage: the development of these canals and the city's role as an inland port over a 150 year period.Ray's selection of over 200 black and white photographs presents the changes from their busiest to the decline and transition to the leisure trade. There are also a number of maps showing the canals' extent within the borough.Soft back. 128 pages. 17.2cms x 24.3cms approx.
Price: £10.99
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 | Book - Black Country Canals Ref: 495
by Paul Collins.During the Industrial Revolution this transport system developed to serve the steel, coal, lime and glass industries that grew up so extensively. Now much of the area's heavy industry has disappeared, but many of the canals remain.Black Country Canals includes a wide range of black and white photographs, many previously unpublished, and is accompanied by fascinating and informative captions.Softback. 128 pages. 17.2cms x 24.4cms approx.
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 | Book - The Duke's Cut (The Bridgewater Canal) Ref: 1775
by Cyril J. Wood.Since its completion in 1765, the canal has been regularly used by commercial and passenger traffic; it was one of the major routes of the North West that helped Manchester develope as a centre of trade and industry in the nineteenth century.In this book, Cyril recounts the fascinating history of the Bridgewater Canal, from its conception and construction to its subsequent successes including its use as a leisure waterway today. His detailed commentary is complimented by his descriptive guide to cruising the canal and valuable navigational information.Soft back. 128 pages. 16.4cms x 23.4cms. Illustrated with over 150 black and white photos and drawings.
Price: £12.00
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 | Book - Bridgewater Canal Ref: 2222
by Ron & Marlene Freethy.This book is a personal journey along the waterway, and is intended to help readers plan quiet walks through the history, natural history and industrial archaeology of the canal. It came about following research and recording of BBC programmes in 1995.Original RRP £9.95p.Soft back. 92 pages. 21cms x 20cms approx. Colour and black & white photos.
Price: £4.99
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 | Book - The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal Ref: 1950
by Tony Haskell.A canal to connect the Bristol and English Channels was envisioned in Somerset at the height of England's Canal Mania. Sadly this vision was never completed, but the section linking Bridgwater and Taunton opened in 1827.This book looks at the various canal schemes, companies, boatmen and the struggle to keep the canal open, and also documents the history of the River Tone.Soft back. 17.3cms x 24.7cms. Illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams.
Price: £16.99
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 | Book - Calder & Hebble Navigation Ref: 635
by Mike Taylor.Illustrated within this book are over 200 images of canal boats (both horse drawn and motor powered), items of canal furniture and activity on the navigation's many wharfs. (Tempus Publishing)Soft back. 128 pages. 16.6cms x 23.6cms approx.
Price: £12.00
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 | Book - Along The River Cam Ref: 1869
by Andrew Hunter Blair.Using the river as its common thread, this book explores not only the river's history but also that of the surrounding countryside. As the Cam flows from its various sources on the chalk uplands of Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, through peaceful river valleys, the historic city of Cambridge and across flat and lonely fenland, its character changes.Soft back. 144 pages. 17.3cms x 24.8cms. Illustrated with black & white photos.
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 | Book - Chester Canal Ref: 1291
Edited by Gordon Emery.One of England's oldest canals, Chester Canal was a vision of prosperity for the city's Georgian residents, and yet the venture was badly planned and underfunded. Saved by its junctions to the Ellesmere Canal and the Mersey, it went on to become part of the Shropshire Union and competed with the railways of the Victorian age.Here are some of the stories and pictures of its inception and its life, its boats and its people.It also includes a 60 page guide to exploring the canal.Soft back. 300 pages. 20cms x 21.1cms approx. Illustrated with black & white photos and drawings.
Price: £13.95
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 | Book - The Cromford Canal Ref: 813
by Hugh Potter.The Cromford Canal was a bold undertaking, linking the Derwent and Upper Erewash valleys to the main canal system. Colleries, ironworks, mills, limestone and gritstone quarries all flourished alongside it. Although penetrating the southern part of the Peak District, William Jessop's engineering genius ensured that the canal passed 13 miles through this hilly terrain without a single lock.Hugh Potter is archivist for the Friends of Cromford Canal, lives beside it and has been collecting photographs and historical information for many years.Soft back. 128 pages. 16.5cms x 23.5cms approx. Black & white photographs.
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 | Book - There And Back Again (Restoring the Cromford Canal 1968-1988) Ref: 1961
by Simon Stoker.The Cromford Canal's history has been covered by a number of authors in various forms, such as the more photographic one by Hugh Potter above.The purpose of this book is to give an illustration of what happened when a group of enthusiasts went about restoring the upper sections of the canal - the five miles between Cromford and Ambergate. There is a brief history to put it all into context.Soft back. 128 pages. 17.2cms x 24.8cms approx. Colour and Black & white photos.
Price: £14.99
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