From Sea to Sea
Neil Wilson Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-903238-94-3 (ISBN)
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"The peculiar formation of the great Caledonian valley - long, deep and comparatively very narrow, and occupied by a regular chain of inland lakes and extensive arms of the sea - had long suggested the idea of a canal which by connecting the whole might afford the means of a navigable communication between the opposite sides of the island. Indeed so marked were its features in this respect, that it must have been difficult to escape the conclusion that Nature had irresistibly invited the hand of man to the completion of such an undertaking." So wrote a Victorian commentator in the 1840s in a description of the Caledonian Canal. Curiously, this observation was made some 350 years after the construction of Scotland's first canal, which was made to serve God rather than Mammon. Andrew Wood had distinguished himself in the service of James III by repelling an English fleet from the Forth and also withstanding their siege of Dumbarton. He was knighted and given lands at Largo in Fife. Around 1495 he had a canal constructed that allowed him to be conveyed, each Sunday, in his admiral's barge from his house to church!
With no history of Scotland's canals currently available Len Paterson set about researching them after the successful publication of his history of the puffer trade having decided to re-assess the important part that Scotland's canals played in that story. This engaging history covers the main canals: Caledonian, Crinan, Forth and Clyde, Monkland and Union covering the last 40 years in particular detail as this is the period over which the canal system, against the odds, had been revitalised. That is the overwhelming conclusion to the story that is now told in this present volume.
Len Paterson was the author of several books on shipping themes, most notably the Scottish puffer (Light in the Glens). He worked for over 20 years in shipping and was considered one of Scotland's leading authorities on nautical and canal transport. He was a founding trustee of the Scottish Maritime Museum. He died in 2011.
Acknowledgements Foreword Photographs and Illustrations 1. Nature's Invitation 2. The Engineers 3. The Subscribers 4. The Navigations 5. Passenger Services 6. Servicing Industry 7. Servicing Capital 8. 'The Great Canal' 9. 'Railway Mania' 10. The Mid-Scotland Canal 11. The Watershed 12. Decline and Closure 13. Revival 14. The Millennium Link 15. The Future List of Appendices I. Canal chronology II. Scottish canals: dates and costs III. Principal canal dimensions IV. Aqueducts and alterations V. The Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal VI. Canal barges: steam and horse-power costs VII. Number of puffers by year of building VIII. Forth and Clyde Navigation: extracts from the Financial Accounts IX. Forth and Clyde Canal: number of passengers, 1809 - 48 X. Forth and Clyde: profit ratio, passenger boats, 1809 - 48 XI. The Aitken 'Queen' fleet XII. Monkland Canal: Blackhill inclined plane, number of movements, 1854 - 84 XIII. Union Canal: tolls earned, 1830 to 1920 XIV. Forth and Clyde and Monkland: tonnages, 1810 - 1925 XV. Crinan, number of ship passages, 1840 to 1925 XVI. Caledonian Canal: number of ship passages, 1825 to 1890 and 1890 to 1965 XVII. Crinan Canal: profit ratio, 1820 to 1905 XVIII. Caledonian Canal: profit ratio, 1855 to 1945 XIX. Forth and Clyde: income, 1779 to 1800 XX. Forth and Clyde: income, 1810 to 1940 XXI. Forth and Clyde: profit ratios, 1800 to 1910 XXII. Forth and Clyde: income, costs and dividend, 1800 - 60 XXIII. Union Canal: profit and loss, 1832 - 45 XXIV. Union Canal: income, tonnage rates, 1837 - 46 XXV. Scottish Canals: tonnages 1948 - 61 XXVI. Millennium Link Project XXVII. British Waterways (Scotland: profit and loss: 1999 to 2004 References Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.5.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | b/w integrated halftones |
| Verlagsort | Glasgow |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-903238-94-3 / 1903238943 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-903238-94-3 / 9781903238943 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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