old waterway books

I wrote about one of the early accounts of canal cruising for pleasure in a previous post (Canal and River) and have subsequently unearthe...

In a recent post I mentioned the fact that many of the early canal pleasure voyagers published their accounts anonymously. Anonymously aut...

Artist Bernard Hailstone was commissioned by the War Office Advisory Committee to paint many Wartime military & civilian scenes. He is ...

The early voyagers for pleasure on our waterways seem to have been an invariably shy and retiring bunch of individuals whose descriptions o...

No I hadn’t heard of it either .   The worlds first internal combustion engine and the first internal combustion engine used to power a boa...

The origins of English narrow boat decoration may never be fully ascertained but Tony Lewery's researches reach back through time...

IS THIS THE FIRST PUBLISHED COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH OF AN ENGLISH CANAL? 'THE CANALS OF ENGLAND' by S P B Mais is a 20 page a...

September saw the second part of Mark Baldwin’s library auctioned in London. The first part consisting of books was auctioned last year bu...

Correspondence found in an old book . And the reply.