Tales from the Inland Waterways

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2005
David & Charles (Verlag)
978-0-7153-2294-9 (ISBN)

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This fascinating collection of tales that recall the days when the waterways formed the principal means of transportation around the country, from those who lived and worked on the traditional painted narrowboats of the midland canals to the skipper of a tug on the Manchester Ship Canal. Also included are the dredgers, lock-keepers and blacksmiths. There are provocative stories of home life too, and information on how familes coped on the waterways. A brief history provides the background, enhanced by maps, watercolours and evocative archive photographs, giving a complete picture of how life on the waterways used to be.

Euan Corrie has has worked and travelled throughout the English inland waterway system for many years. He has also written a wide variety of articles for magazines including Waterways World. Euan lives in Nottingham.

Introduction; George Trevithick of Keadby, Humberside: towage contractor and marine engineer; Harry and Sarah Bentley of Scholar Green, Cheshire: potteries boating; Tom Kelly of Runcorn, Cheshire: ship canal tug skipper; George Wood of Kingswinford, West Midlands: Staffs & Worcs Canal dredger driver; Violet Mould of Thurmaston, Leicestershire: long-distance boating; Jack Strange of Ellesmere, Shropshire: blacksmith; Thomas Tyson of Ardrishaig, Argyll: carpenter and lock gate builder; Joe Safe of Birmingham: from oil boatman to lock-keeper; Sam and Gladys Horne of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: boating 'til the last; Bill Dean of Newport, Shropshire: canal inspector Dredgings: discoveries from the murky depths; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2005
Verlagsort	Newton Abbot
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 263 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
ISBN-10	0-7153-2294-X / 071532294X
ISBN-13	978-0-7153-2294-9 / 9780715322949
Zustand	Neuware