Victorian and Edwardian Canals from old photographs
£8.95
This book is out of print. The copies available are second hand, in near-as-new or very good condition. The front cover and spine has some fading.
This book is a realistic study of the inland waterways in the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century. The black and white photographs portray life on the waterways, both for boatmen and those who maintained the waterways. The book also shines a light on the development of the canals and river navigations themselves, and provides a vivid insight into an era long gone.
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The spotless neatness of the little cabin and the polish bestowed on the brass fittings are popular characteristics of narrow boats, and the exterior decoration of these boats is celebrated, and evidences the pride taken in their appearance. This popular view belied, alas, by some of the photographs in this book! Other photos, however, are forceful evidence of its validity, proving that canals were a subject as any other industry to the rich vagaries of human conduct.
The geographical range of this book is from Scotland through all parts of England to Wales. Its subject is the waterways themselves, their construction and buildings, the boats, the trade, the people who worked on them. From a passenger steamer at Inverness to a punt on the Thames, from a steam launch at Bude to a wherry on the Broads, from coal in Hertfordshire to the cotton sheds at Manchester, from child navvy to an earl, these 168 photographs of the second-half of the last century and the first decade of this, memorably record the canals’ last prosperity.
D D Gladwin, who has written several books on canals and actually works on the waterways, has assembled these photographs from numerous public and private collections. A significant number are from his own collection, and from canal families and old canal men.
Author: D D Gladwin
Binding: Hardback
Published: 1989 (first published in 1976)
Pages: 120
Size: 255 x 195 mm
ISBN: 0713430613
Publisher’s Price (in 1989): £10.95
