By Waterway to Taunton. A history of the Bridgwater & Taunton Canal and the River Tone Navigation
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- Author(s) Haskell, Tony
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 2nd ed; 256pp; illus
- Publisher Tempus Publishing
- Place Published Stroud
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- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
First published 1994. Detailed account written by a retired Deputy County Planning Officer for Somerset, 1977-90. Chapters of the first edition are: 'The River Tone'; 'Canal schemes in Somerset, 1768-1828'; 'Surveying and cutting the Bridgwater & Taunton Canal'; 'The canal company and the conservators'; 'Bridgwater gets a harbour' [pp39-52]; 'Life on the waterways. The boatmen and their work on the river'; 'Life on the waterways. The boatmen and their work on the canal'; 'The conservators' struggle to keep the canal navigable'; 'Canal versus railway'; 'Postwar - time of austerity'; 'Restoration of the canal'