Books about Canals
Reprint publish the following books about Canals:
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A Brief History of the Windlass
Price: £4.50
A study of the boatman's implement to operate lock mechanisms. Incorporated are stories of its other "uses", particularly as a weapon in the murder of Black Jake at Cassiobury Lock.
Reference is … [more]
Boyhood to Boathood: A journey by water related stories
Price: £8.99
An autobiography of water related experiences from early canal visits, an alarming park lake minor injury which almost led to the loss of a leg, building a school based canoe and then college years in … [more]
Price: £4.50
This title is a one-off sister publication of the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust's regular 'Plane informer' newsletter.
First published in 2000, the centenary year of the Foxton Inclined Plane, it has … [more]
Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane: A Detailed History
Price: £4.50
This publication was produced some years ago and we are indebted to Mike Beech of the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust for permission to reprint this 'out-of-print' edition.
It is proposed and in … [more]
Foxton Locks And The Grand Junction Canal Co.
Price: £4.50
'Buried Treasure' conjures up an image of hidden wealth of some exotic kind - in the Millner letters lie a wealth of detail about one of Britain's most prestigious and go-ahead Canal Companies at the … [more]
Loughborough Lock to Bishop Meadow Lock
Price: £4.50
This presentation is a sequel to "Loughborough Wharf and Charlie Lewis, a BWB employee 1956-1994", which briefly describes a history of the original terminus to the Loughborough Canal (built some … [more]
Price: £6.00
A short history about the building of the wharf and an account relating the work of Charlie Lewis who was based there for almost forty years.
Contributions from Ray Fletcher who was born in a … [more]
Price: £4.50
Standing on the old boiler house floor at Foxton, it is difficult to imagine what it must have been like in working days. The many working steam museums around the country give a better picture, and … [more]
The 'Old Union' Canals of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire
Price: £4.50
The Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal was to have been the last link in the series of Navigations linking the Thames and London with the Trent and Derby-Nottingham coal fields. An … [more]
Price: £3.50
Old book reprinted to keep local history alive. Full acknowledgement to all contributors on this lost canal in Loughborough.
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