 | Book - A Canal People Ref: 468
by Sonia Rolt.During a few brief years in the late 1940s and early 1950s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boat community at Hawkesbury Stop. Sonia Rolt, who herself worked the canals during the period and knew the photographer, provides an introduction.It sets the photographs in the context of their time. Informative captions identify the scenes.Soft back. 154 pages. 8¾" x 8¾" approx.
Price: £12.60
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 | Book - Canals & Waterways Ref: 1139
Revisit the vanished world of our great commercial canals, with their locks, towpaths, old stone bridges, brightly painted horse-drawn narrowboats and bustling motorised craft.These photographs have been chosen from the world famous Francis Frith Collection. Finely detailed, they offer a fascinating glimpse of a past era of British canal and river life.Originally priced @ £14.99p.Hard back. 122 pages. 10" x 7" approx. Illustrated with sepia and black & white photographs.
Price: £7.99
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 | Book - Scottish Loch & Canal Steamers Ref: 969
by Alistair Deayton.This book looks at the many pleasure steamers and motor vessels used on Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Loch Katrine, Loch Earn, the Lake of Monteith and many other sea and freshwater lochs, as well as on the Forth & Clyde, Union, Monkland and Caledonian Canals.Alistair brings together for the first time many unpublished images with an informative text and tells the story of the development of passenger services on Scotland's lochs and inland waterways.Soft back. 160 pages. Black & white photos. 6½" x 9¼" approx.
Price: £12.60
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 | Book - Grand Unions Ref: 678
by Peter Ashley.Grand Unions looks at how the canals in England bring together architecture, engineering, lanscape and art in an environment originally conceived in the 18th century to serve the Industrial Revolution.To avoid confusion, it is not a book about the Grand Union Canal.Softback. 80 pages. 6" x 5¾" approx. Colour photographs.
Price: £5.80
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 | Book - Bridging the Gap Ref: 679
by Peter Ashley.This book looks at the evolving forms and materials of bridges in England. From the first, which may have been a tree fallen across a stream, through clapper stones and medieval arches to flying wonders of concrete and steel.Many well known examples and favourites are here, but Peter has uncovered examples that are surprising as they are delightful.Softback. 80 pages. 6" x 5¾" approx. Colour photographs.
Price: £5.80
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 | Book - Canals of England Ref: 713
by Martin Marix Evans & Robert Reichenfeld.The canal age transformed the British landscape. Today, however, mellowed by time and disuse, these waterways meander slowly through fields carrying holidaymakers, or lie disused and forgotten, tucked away in some overgrown and mysterious corner of the countryside.Following the course of these canals, Martin and Robert toured England and documented these waterways from all aspects. With over 130 photographs and a text rich in history, people and legends, Canals of England captures the beauty of England's canals from the exquisite detail of a stone gargoyle on a crumbling Bath bridge to the magnificent sweep of the Rochdale canal as it cuts through the Yorkshire countryside.Soft back. 159 pages. 9¾" x 7½" approx. Normal retail price £9.99
Price: £7.99
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 | Book - A Portrait Of The Severn Ref: 1649
by Chris Morris.Spanning more than 200 miles, the Severn is Britain's longest river and was for centuries its most important trade route.Photographer Chris Morris follows the Severn from central Wales to the Bristol Channel, presenting luminous riverscapes, evocative images of coracles, fishing and trade and also the new bridges, white yachts and riverside pubs of the modern river.Hard back. 128 pages. Colour photos. 9¾" x 7" approx.
Price: £17.50
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