Birmingham Canal Navigations. Vol 1, 1768-1846
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- Author(s) Broadbridge, Stanley R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1974
- Pages 205pp; illus
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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No second volume was published. Based on the author's MA dissertation. Deals with canal building and operation in the Birmingham era, notably the Birmingham Canal Co and its successor the Birmingham Canal Navigations Co, but also others such as Dudley Canal, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, Warwick & Birmingham Canal, Wyrley & Essington Canal. Chapters include: 'The first canal, 1768-72'; 'Rivalries and expansion, 1772-85'; 'New canals, 1790-1830'; 'Improving the Birmingham Canal, 1778-1818'; 'Telford and after, 1818-47'; 'Control and finance'; 'Maintenance and operation'; 'The coming of the railways'