Barges and Bargemen. A social history of the Upper Severn Navigation, 1660-1900

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Author(s) Trinder, Barrie S
Publication type Monograph
Year published 2005
Pages 178pp; illus
Publisher Phillimore
Place Published Chichester

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Name Internal trade

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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An account of the social [and industrial] impact of the Upper Severn Navigation on towns and districts from Shrewsbury, Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge, Coalport, Broseley, Bridgnorth, Bewdley to Stourport. Chapters include: 'Rivers and river people'; 'A river in the state of nature'; 'A navigation at work'; 'Communities and community'; 'The staple trades of an old navigation - the Upper Severn in the Industrial Revolution'; 'Competition and decline, 1830-1900'; 'Perspectives'