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Birmingham Canals

Author : Ray Shill
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492187
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Birmingham Canals written by Ray Shill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birmingham is famously reputed to have more miles of canals than Venice. These canals contributed much to the city's growth, bringing coal and merchandise from the surrounding areas. As the city prospered economically, it continued to grow and absorb neighbouring communities, a process in many ways bound together by the waterways. Although part of the national network, Birmingham's canals, including the Worcester & Birmingham, the Stratford-upon-Avon and the Birmingham Canal Navigation, retain their original identity – and most are still in water and used regularly, albeit in different ways to their original industrial purpose. Fully updated and illustrated with stunning new photographs, this book captures the heritage, development and modern role of Birmingham's canals in a way that will appeal to canal users as well as those with a wider interest in Britain's second most populous city.

The Worcester and Birmingham Canal

Author : Alan White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858582610
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book The Worcester and Birmingham Canal written by Alan White and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Worcestershire and Birmingham Canal, some thirty miles long, was created from 1791, when it was authorised by Act of Parliament, to 1815 when it was completed 24 years later. Although intended as a broad canal for barges and having five broad tunnels, it was eventually completed with narrow locks due to financial difficulties. From Gas Street Basin at the Birmingham end it passes through the suburbs of Edgbaston, Selly Oak and Kings Norton, then through the long West Hill Tunnel and via Hopwood and Alvechurch through countryside to Tardebigge, all this section being on the Birmingham Level. Then it descends in stages via fifty-six narrow locks and two barge locks to the River Severn at Diglis via Stoke Prior, Hanbury Wharf, Dunhampstead, Oddingley, Tibberton, Blackpole and the eastern suburbs of Worcester City. The earlier chapters of this book trace in detail the successive stages reached in making the canal and the reservoirs needed to safeguard the water supplies of millowners, the financial and other problems faced, and the saga of the Tardebigge Boat Lift. Later chapters cover the history of the canal following its completion, its use for both commercial and pleasure purposes, its administration and management, its upkeep and maintenance, its involvement with railways, and the various industries and amenities which were established beside it. Three of the final chapters feature past and present places and items of interest located along the canal from Birmingham to Worcester. Of special interest throughout is the impact the canal had upon the lives of countless people, those involved in its construction, those who lived and worked on the boats, those who were employed by the Canal Company as engineers, lock-keepers and maintenance men, people who worked in canalside factories, shops, public house, boatyards, and on wharves, and those concerned for the welfare of canal boat families and their animals.

West Midland Canals Through Time

Author : Ray Shill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445632101
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book West Midland Canals Through Time written by Ray Shill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which West Midland Canals have changed and developed over the last century.

Birmingham's Canals

Author : Ray Shill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750920773
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Birmingham's Canals written by Ray Shill and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title illustrates Birmingham's canal heritage, the development of these canals and the city's role as an inland port over a 150 year period. This selection of captioned photographs presents changes to the canal system in detail. They represent potted histories. The book serves as a pictorial survey that traces the change from industrial use to the canal city of the present day. It should be of interest not only to the boating faternity but to all who live and work in the bustling city of Birmingham and share an interest in their city environment.

Birmingham Canal Navigations

Author : Phil Clayton
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719840201
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Birmingham Canal Navigations written by Phil Clayton and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birmingham Canal Navigations comprise the greatest concentration of waterways in Britain. Over the course of a century, from the original Birmingham Canal of 1769, they grew to their greatest extent of almost 160 miles, all within about a 12-mile radius of their geographical centre of Walsall. The network was a major driver of the great industrial development of Birmingham and the Black Country, carrying vast quantities of raw materials and finished goods into the twentieth century. Following decades of decline, the BCN is once more an important player in the regeneration of the region's centres and the growth of leisure. With 140 illustrations, including maps and archive photographs, this book includes: the beginnings and expansion of the network; subsequent improvements to the system; supplying the water; the people who worked the BCN; trials and tribulations, including inclement weather, subsidence, breaches, wartime and accidents; the impact and influence of the railways, and finally its decline and subsequent transition into a New Canal Age.

Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108069959
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain written by Joseph Priestley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard reference work in its day, this 1831 account provides alphabetical entries relating to British waterways and railways.

Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout Great Britain

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout Great Britain written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Birmingham Canal Navigations Through Time

Author : R. H. Davies
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445609401
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Birmingham Canal Navigations Through Time written by R. H. Davies and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Birmingham Canal Navigations have changed and developed over the last century.

Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain, Derived from Original and Parliamentary Documents in the Possession of J. Priestley

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Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain, Derived from Original and Parliamentary Documents in the Possession of J. Priestley written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birmingham Canal Navigations

Author : British Waterways
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Birmingham Canal Navigations written by British Waterways and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birmingham Canal Navigations

Author : Geo Projects Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780863511721
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Birmingham Canal Navigations written by Geo Projects Staff and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parliamentary Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canals: The Making of a Nation

Author : Liz McIvor
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473530237
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Canals: The Making of a Nation written by Liz McIvor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how modern Britain was born. It was the canals that helped open up the trade of the Industrial Revolution, furthered the new science of geology, and even ushered in a new form of architecture. The legacy of our canals is all around us. In Canals: The Making of a Nation, McIvor takes us on a journey across the network of English canals to tell a deeper story of how our waterways changed our lives. It’s a very modern tale, full of high finance and greedy investors, cheap labour and the struggle for workers’ rights, and new frontiers in family and child welfare. It’s a unique and compelling exploration of Britain’s golden age.

Reports from Commissioners

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reports from Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales

Author : Henry Rodolph De Salis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3954272148
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales written by Henry Rodolph De Salis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Rodolph de Salis took more than a decade to explore the navigable inland waterways of England and Wales. Based on his results and experiences, he created a handbook of inland navigation for manufacturers, merchants, traders, and others. First published in 1904, this book is still one of the most important works in canal literature.Reprint of the original edition.

Canals of Britain

Author : Stuart Fisher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472994914
Total Pages : 1085 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Canals of Britain written by Stuart Fisher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canals of Britain is the most comprehensive and absorbing survey of Britain's canal network ever published. It provides a fascinating insight into the linked up waterways as well as the isolated cuts and quiet waters which may not be fully navigable by larger craft. Infinitely varied, it passes picturesque open countryside, wild moorland, coastal harbours, historic industrial buildings, modern city centres, canalside public houses and abundant wildlife. Stuart Fisher looks at every aspect of the canals - their construction, rich history, stunning scenery, heritage, incredible engineering, impressive architecture and even their associated folklore, wildlife and art. Enticing photographs give a flavour of each place and places of interest close to the canals are included. Each canal is intricately mapped. For those who are keen to explore that little bit further, the book goes to points beyond which others usually turn back, with information on little-known parts of the system, offering a new insight into this country's unique, surprising and beautiful canal network. Attractive, inspiring and also a practical guide, The Canals of Britain has proved very popular with walkers, cyclists, narrowboaters, canoeists, kayakers and others wanting to get the most out of Britain's canals. This fourth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the ever-changing landscape of Britain's canals, and includes many new colour photographs to help bring them to life.