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Boatmen & Boaters 1 2
A Horse, A Boat, And You
A Tribute to George and Anne Wain
Alice Lapworth
Alice was born on a boat, married a boatman, and her daughter was born on a boat.
A way of life gone for ever.
Softback £6.99
Norbury Junction
The Story of a Canal Community
Norbury Local History Group
The growth from green fields in the 1830s to an important canal junction, boatyard and community.
Softback
£5.00
Boatmen & Boaters 1 2
Women & Children of the Cut Wendy Freer
The everyday life of families who lived on narrow boats in the 19th/20th centuries. Child labour was common, and there was little education.
Softback £11.95
As Green As Grass
Emma Smith
Growing up before, during and after the second world war, including being a boater (one of the Trainees, or “Idle Women”), and determined to be a writer.
Softback £8.99
Memories of a Wartime Canal Boatwoman
Nancy Ridgway
At least 12 women worked boats on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in WW2. Known as “Judies”, these are the momories of one of them.
Softback £4.99
Shropshire Union Fly-
The Jack Roberts Story
A detailed personal account of fly-
Softback £16.95
The Trent & Mersey Canal
Tom Foxon
A detailed, illustrated and extensively researched review of trade and transport
from 1770-
Hardback
£25.00
Cockerel’s in the Cut
John Blunn
Remembering a working boatman’s life, with Claytons, FMC and Barlows, then maintenance with BW. Lots of anecdotes, describing hardship and enjoyment, humour.
Softback £10.95
The Canal Belongs To Me
Tony Byfield
The author drove a tractor towing barges from the towpath of the Grand Union Canal
in the west London area in the 1950s-
Softback £5.00
On the Boats
Les Mason
Memories of time spent on and around the upper section of the Cromford Canal in the
1920s-
Softback £4.00
