As well as providing much historical background, this book acts as a complete catalogue of the interesting buildings and structures alongside the Montgomery Canal in Wales.  The book covers the construction and line of the canal, the waterway economy, the trade installations, the canal workforce and their housing, canal generated industry and the waterway settlements.  The facts and figures are accompanied by a range of archive phots, diagrams and maps.

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This is a history of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal and the River Tone Navigation.

Over 200 years ago, when canal building in Britain was in its infancy, men of vision dreamt of cutting a waterway between the Bristol and English channels, as a means of avoiding the long and hazardous sea journey around the South West peninsula.

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This guide to the Sheffield and Tinsley canal is the first of a series of Sheffield East End trails.  Sheffield's East End has seen huge changes in the last 25 years. Thousands of houses, whole streets of people and vast works have disappeared, and enormous landmark buildings, new landscapes and different kinds of jobs have sprung up in their place. However, the evidence of Sheffield East End's rich and fascinating history is still all around if you know where to look.

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Waterways Journal is an annual publication, originally published by The Boat Museum Society. This is the first edition of that annual publication published in 1999 and contains four detailed articles covering the history of parts of Britain's inland waterway system.  The 72-page publication is well illustrated with archive photographs the occasional map and many diagrams.  There is a wealth of information here not found elsewhere.

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This evocative collection of archive photographs from the world famous Francis Frith collection depicts the rich life of Britain's canals and waterways from mid-Victorian times up to the 1960s, when many fell into disrepair and dereliction.  Travel back in time and revisit a world that was remote from the rush and bustle of modern life, with its unique architecture and varied commercial and pleasure craft. Read, too, about the daily lives of the families who earn their living on the water. This special collection will provide hours of enjoyable reading.

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During a few brief years in the late 1940s and early 1950s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boats community at Hawkesbury Stop - the main meeting point for those who worked the Midlands canals. The images are of a close community and represent its members in a very intimate way, at work, at play, in their domestic affairs, and as they lived on the paired and single colourful narrowboats. They illustrate the close relationship between all ages and types within the community, and the dramatic boat shapes and infrascape of this rural and industrial area.

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This excellent-value 96-page book has a a splendid selection of archive canal photos from the working days of the waterways.  The carefully selected photos are clear images of an industrial past long gone and a way of life that few can now remember.  There are many striking images, and the detailed captions explain what happened, why it happened, and where it happened.

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London River is the dramatic and colourful life story of London's great river, with over 100 illustrations.  The book was published to accompany a TV series at the time, but stands on its own as an insightful introduction and more for all those with an interest in the Thames.  This is the hardback edition.

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This lavishly illustrated book provides a selection of finely detailed black & white and sepia photographs from throughout England, with a few from Wales, over the first half of the 20th century, providing a unique insight and capturing the essence of the rich and varied life of England's canals and waterways.

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This compact book, from publisher Ian Allen limited, comprises over 200 black & white photographs from eminent waterways photographer Derek Pratt near the start of his career.  The book, published in 1982, features waterways that were just emerging from failing commercial use into their new role in the leisure industry.  It captures a time when there was renewed hope for the waterways, and yet now, to many of us, these photos will have a nostalgic feel.

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