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Canal Narrowboats and Barges

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Canal Narrowboats and Barges

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An expert introduction to narrowboats, this book also covers wider canal craft and is a guide to the heritage of the working canals.

It includes photographs of boats on the inland waterways today, as well as others that illustrate the techniques of canal boating and chronicle some of the groups who work to preserve craft and use them for education, pleasure and trade.

Older photographs show the working boats against the background of industry and the historic canals. There is a section listing a range of contacts, museums and societies, to help the reader search out craft around the waterways.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Broad and narrow waterways
Barges
Where did narrowboats come from?
Construction and Propulsion
Boat-builders and types of boat
Working cargoes
Boats today
Further reading
Museums
Societies
Websites

Product details

Published 01 Apr 2004
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 56
ISBN 9780747805878
Imprint Shire Publications
Dimensions 210 x 149 mm
Series Shire Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Tony Conder

Tony Conder has been involved with inland waterw…

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