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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Stroudwater Navigation has changed and developed over the last century.
Author : Michael Handford
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1445635267
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Stroudwater Navigation has changed and developed over the last century.
Author : Michael Handford
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Canals
ISBN : 9781848688421
Built between 1775 and 1779, the Stroudwater Navigation stretched from Framilode to Wallbridge in Stroud where it later connected with the Thames & Severn Canal to form a link between the River Severn and the River Thames. When completed the canal was eight miles long with twelve locks to take Severn trows, but by the beginning of the Second World War it had fallen into disuse and was virtually derelict. The canal was finally abandoned in 1954. Rescued from dereliction the landscape of the canal is constantly changing, with new bridges, repaired locks and many sections now containing water. The Cotswold Canal Trust intends restoring the canal so that vessels may once again proceed as far as Brimscombe. Michael Handford presents a fascinating snapshot of the on-going restoration work, contrasting the old images of the canal with many new photographs.
Author : David Viner
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1445635518
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Thames & Severn Canal has changed and developed over the last century.
Author : Michael Handford
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 144561961X
One of the oldest canals in Britain, the Stroudwater is part way through a multimillion pound restoration.
Author : Joan Tucker
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Canals
ISBN : 9780752428062
The Stroud Navigation opened in 1779 from the Severn at Framilode to Stroud, Gloucestershire, a distance of eight miles. It brought increased prosperity to the Stroud Valleys, a centre for early industrialisation. Ten years later the Thames & Severn Canal, linked with it. The Stroudwater is unique for being in the hands of the original company for over 200 years, and most of the primary source material for this book derives from the company archive. Personal reminisces, legal documents, census returns and illustrations, including paintings, photographs, maps, plans and poetry, are also used to record the role played by the canal in the social history of the region. Joan Tucker has known the canal for the forty years; her family lived on a narrowboat at Walk Bridge in the early sixties. For the past twenty years she has been Archives Director of the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation.
Author : John Phillips
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Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1792
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Author : John Phillips
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 1793
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Author : John PHILLIPS (Surveyor)
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1795
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Author : Great Britain
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 1786
Category : Law
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Page : 846 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1786
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