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This book completes Mike Taylor's three-volume coverage of craft on the Humber's inland waterways. This volume concentrates on the story of the dry cargo barges that plied the Humber waterways from the early days in the seventeenth century, through their flourishing heyday, to their gradual decline due to proliferation of roads and railways.
Cargo carrying by water has always afforded an efficient means of transporting bulk goods and materials, and the River Trent has seen such activity for centuries. Both sea-going traffic and inland waterways vessels are illustrated in this book.
Illustrated within the pages of the Calder & Hebble Navigation by Mike Taylor, 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.
When the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal opened in April 1827, it was the widest and deepest canal in England, capable of taking most of the largest sea-going ships of the day. It bypassed a narrow, winding stretch of the River Severn and allowed Gloucester to develop as Britain's most inland port, serving the growing industrial towns of the Midlands.
This Dutch reference book lists all Dutch barges, and gives all technical data related to them.
Written by Joan Tucker, this book takes us on a journey down the River Thames from Staines to Yantlet Creek, near Gravesend. She tells the story of each ferry, most now replaced by bridges, including those that have appeared in more recent years as well as long-established routes such as the Woolwich Ferry .
This book is a must for canal enthusiasts, and for those lucky enough to live along the route of England's most picturesque canal. It describes the route from Bristol to the Thames with detailed captions of old photographs.
As much of the two canals, especially the Thames & Severn, has been destroyed, this collection endeavours to show how they appeared and were used before closure.
This photographic journey recalls the final years in the life of the two canals, now being restored by the Cotswold Canal Trust, which once linked England's two longest rivers.
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