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Images of the Kennet & Avon

Images of the Kennet & Avon

£9.95

This book is out of print.  The copies available are second hand, in near-as-new or very good condition.  Published by Redcliffe Press Ltd

‘100 Years in Camera’ – this book provides a fascinating pictorial history of the Kennet and Avon Canal from Bristol to Bradford-on-Avon.  An introductory text, illustrated with drawings and prints, sets the scene for 109 archive photographs, many reproduced here for the first time – that give the story of the Kennet & Avon between Bristol and Bradford-on-Avon life and life and substance anew.  The accompanying detailed captions, richly embroidered with anecdotes and previously unpublished material, assure the people, places and boats a rightful place in the history of this working waterway.

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After generations of neglect and decay, traffic on the river Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal is on the increase; the trade now is, of course, in people and the paraphernalia of the leisure boating industry.  Nevertheless it is a trade that is that closely follows not only the route but also the aspirations of those who created the waterway link between Bristol and London.

The boater’s inheritance is an almost secret by-way where time and man have all but silenced the echoes of a bustling working artery, the heyday of which was seldom recorded and soon forgotten.  In this book, Neil Allsopp brings together some of the memories, visual and verbal, that have survived the ravages of time as rare and nostalgic Images of the Kenneth & Avon

Author: Niall Allsop
Binding: Softback
Published: 1987
Pages: 96
Size: 234 x 235 mm
ISBN: 0948265914
Publisher’s Price (in 1987): £5.95

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