A history of Boatyards and Boat building for commercial carrying on the British canals. The various boatyards...
The people, boats and carrying companies that could be seen operating to the south of Birmingham from...
The life of the proud owner-boatmen, known on the canals as 'Number Ones'....
Many people will have heard of the 'Idle Women', the volunteer women who worked on canal boatson...
Reprint of mid-1930s prospectus, originally published by Grand Union Canal Company, promoting commercial...
This is the story of coal merchant and carrier James Smart of Chalford and his associates in the 1880s...
Monks of Adlington were part of the colourful and industrious commercial boating fraternity from the...
Tony Byfield is oneof the last surviving London canal tractor drivers. In the 1950s, miniature diesel...
The canals of Central England were generally restricted to a particular type of boat that was able to...
The canal carriers once provided an important service moving goods the length and breadth of Britain....
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