Author : Faith Martin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Canals
ISBN : 9781848450028
DI Hillary Greene is not a happy woman. Not only has her corrupt husband died, leaving her in the mire with an internal investigation team, but she's living on a relative's canal boat in the tiny village of Thrupp. Things perk up, however, when her boss assigns her the case of a body found in a canal lock.
Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Canals
ISBN : 9780956277794
This is an essential guide for boaters, walkers, cyclists and armchair travellers to the Oxford, Grand Union and Upper Thames canals.
Author : Colin Dexter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330450812
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel - 'Dextrously ingenious' GuardianThat night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren took the name of one Joanna Franks . . . The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859. At around 10.15 a.m. on a Saturday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse - though very much alive - was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced successful. As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation and the trial that followed Joanna Franks' death . . . and becomes convinced that the two men hanged for her murder were innocent . . .
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Boat living
ISBN : 9780750960618
Take a trip down the waterways of England during their hey-day
Author : Collins Maps
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0007488572
Optimised for colour tablets. This ebook is not suitable for reading on black and white eink devices. Guide covering the canals and waterways between Birmingham and the River Medway.
Author :
Publisher : Geoprojects (UK) Limited
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Canals
ISBN : 9780863511882
This tourist map of the Oxford Canal features the canal corridor at 1:56,500 showing the towpath and facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operators. The illustrated guide to the canal shows features of interest. Side one has canal coverage from Oxford to Banbury; detailed plans of Oxford and Banbury at 1:12,500 showing streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest; and a diagrammatic section along the canal and introduction to the canal's history and future prospects. Side two has canal coverage from Banbury to Hawkesbury and from Coventry to Bedworth on the Coventry Canal. The detailed plan of Cropredy at 1:12,500 shows streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest.
Author : Richard S. Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195374835
A history of the Love Canal region from the nation's founding and the utopian city planned for the Niagara area to the building of the region's chemistry industry to the environmental disaster at Love Canal and its aftermath.
Author : Mary Prior
Publisher : Phillimore
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2011-05
Category : Boaters (Persons)
ISBN : 9781860776526
Occupational communities were a feature of towns in the past, but they have been neglected by urban historians. This book is the study of such a community over a period of four hundred years. Fisher Row in Oxford lies between two streams of the Thames, and its inhabitants have long been connected with boats. There was a huddle of fishermen's houses here in the 16th century, bargemen joined them in the 17th century, and canal boatmen after the opening of the Oxford Canal.This study will appeal to a wide spectrum of social and economic historians and historians of the family as well as to local historians and British historians in general.
Author : Emma Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1906860866
A colourful showcase of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Inspired by Oxford's unique architecture and historic university, over 50 artists have produced a unique collection of contemporary images illustrating all aspects of the city and surrounding area. Oxford is both a thriving city and a byword for one of the world's best universities. Its ancient buildings are the wonder of the world, still used and inhabited by an energetic and passionate student community. From tightly-packed Cornmarket street catering for the shoppers of the busy city to Oxford's lush riverside walks that provide an asylum from the bustle of everyday life, to traditional St Giles's Fair and May Day that attract visitors from across Oxfordshire and beyond, this book represents them all, including: - Quirky hidden gems such as The Eagle and Child (the pub frequented by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis) and the many cafes of the Covered Market - Innovative representations of classic tourist sites: the Bodleian Library, the Radcliffe Camera, the Sheldonian Theatre, Christ Church College, Magdalen College and many more... - The Mini Car Plant and Cowley Road transformed into artworks There is so much to wonder at in this lovely book. Its enthusiasm reveals a passion for both contemporary art and the lovely city of Oxford. It will renew memories and inspire visits and revisits to all its haunts.
Author : Sheila Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192853028
From the turn of the century to the late 1950s, horse-drawn narrow boats were a familiar sight on Britain's canals. Carrying a wide variety of cargoes to such destinations as the Potteries, the textile mills of Lancashire, the papermills of London, the colleges of Oxford, they struggled on against increasing competition from rail and road traffic to maintain their place in the country's economy. Yet, little has been recorded about the lives of the canal families, and in particular, the women.
