old waterway books: Rare World War 2. Grand Union Women Recruits .

Monday 5 November 2012

Rare World War 2. Grand Union Women Recruits .

I've just been trolling Ebay canal and waterway books and noticed a couple of rare items from World War2 for auction.
I mention this because some of my most popular posts are those that refer to the 'Idle Women' so if your interested there is a photo of Audrey and Evelyn and their boat on the cover of a wartime magazine and a Picture Post article on the boatwomen and Kit Gayford on one of their trips in 1944. I have both of these and can recomend them.

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Welcome to my blog.

As a collector of Canal & Waterway books and ephemera for the past 40 years, I have occasionally encountered books and articles which seem to be completely unknown, unrecognised or forgotten and which do not appear in any of the recognized canal bibliographies. Some of these seem to deserve better recognition. For todays reader such books can offer a treasure trove of information e.g comments on now disused waterways and anecdotes on the working canal population encountered by these authors of the past.

My collection is strong in titles from the 1850's to the 1980's and includes both fiction and non fiction titles. Canal voyages and travel and social history on both UK and European waterways have been my main interests.I have particularly enjoyed collecting childrens fiction with a waterways theme, an area which seems very neglected but where I have found many 'gems' over the years.

So my purpose in blogging is to introduce folks to books and magazines etc that they may never have heard of and so if after reading one of my blogs you are tempted to search for one of these old 'tomes' I am sure you will be well rewarded. All opinions expressed are of course my own.