Index to WHRG circulars

The Waterways History Research Group (WHRG) circulates five types of members’ contributions: Notes and Queries, Occasional Papers,

Photograph Queries, Reprints, and Sources Papers. Notes and Queries are generally shorter pieces, describing the results of research or

requesting information about a particular topic. Additional information or answers to queries are added as they become available. Occasional

Papers are longer, giving more extensive results of work in progress or rehearsing papers prior to their being offered for publication elsewhere.

Photograph Queries are requests for information about photographs whose location, date or other facts are not known. Reprints are copies of

articles or the like that have appeared in other publications, particularly those that a waterways historian might not ordinarily expect to access,

and which might inspire further research. Sources Papers describe the contents of sources useful to waterways historians, though not to duplicate

the increasing availability of online catalogues.

The index below lists the Group’s circulars to the end of 2016.

Notes & Queries

N&Q 1.01 Furness Railway boats on the BCN?

N&Q 1.02 Great Central Railway Company canal boat service?

N&Q 1.03 Swansea Canal

N&Q 1.04 Chester Canal

N&Q 1.05 Chester: North Basin

N&Q 2.01 Masted boats on canals

N&Q 2.02 Robert Whitworth

N&Q 2.03 Matching mileposts: Cromford and Macclesfield Canals

N&Q 2.04 Macclesfield Canal: no. 1

N&Q 2.05 Macclesfield Canal and side ponds

N&Q 2.06 Smaller canals: North West, East Midlands and Cornwall

N&Q 2.07 Early 20th century pleasure boating on British canals

N&Q 2.08 L T C Rolt and the writing of waterways history

N&Q 3.01 Canals intersecting

N&Q 3.02 Tolls

N&Q 3.03 Not in Hadfield

N&Q 3.04 Waterways fiction

N&Q 3.05 Inland waterways and music

N&Q 3.06 Macclesfield Canal: no. 3

N&Q 3.07 Sir William Cubitt

N&Q 4.01 Passenger boats on the river Don [OP 10]

N&Q 4.02 The canalside in Longport [OP 19]

N&Q 4.03 Not in Hadfield [N&Q 3.3 / OP16]

N&Q 4.04 Overside loading, ship to narrowboat, London docks

N&Q 4.05 Inn names of maritime or waterway interest [OP 25]

N&Q 4.06 A launch for the MS&LR (Thorne 1893) [OP 31]

N&Q 4.07 Marple section letter book 1939–1947

N&Q 4.08 Robert Whitworth, ‘Important works at Bath...’ [N&Q 2.02]

N&Q 4.09 Sir William Cubitt [N&Q 3.07]

N&Q 4.10 Smaller canals [N&Q 2.06]

N&Q 4.11 Masted boats on canals [N&Q 2.01]

N&Q 4.12 Furness Railway boats on the BCN [N&Q 1.01]

N&Q 4.13 Great Central Railway Company [N&Q 1.02]

N&Q 4.14 Macclesfield Canal and side ponds [N&Q 2.05]

N&Q 4.15 Tolls [N&Q 3.02]

N&Q 4.16 Canals and waterways in British crime fiction [OP 8]

N&Q 4.17 Shardlow heritage centre web site

N&Q 4.18 Canal contractors

N&Q 4.19 ‘On-site’ clamp-fired brick production

N&Q 4.20 The evolution of standards in billing canal estimates and tender documents

N&Q 4.21 Dividends

N&Q 4.22 Continental waterways

N&Q 4.23 Fenny Compton tunnel, Oxford Canal

N&Q 4.24 Missions to boatmen

N&Q 4.25 Grand Union Canal

N&Q 4.26 Boat–building on the river Don: two footnotes

N&Q 5.01 Masted boats on canals

N&Q 5.02 Boatmens’ missions and settlements

N&Q 5.03 Canal shanties

N&Q 5.04 Canals and waterways in British crime fiction: Death under Sail [N&Q 4.16]

N&Q 6.01 Inland waterways and music [OP 7]

N&Q 6.02 Canal songs [Reprint 10]

N&Q 6.03 not used

N&Q 6.04 Waterways in crime fiction [N&Q 5.04]

N&Q 6.05 Canal coins

N&Q 6.06 Longport pig

N&Q 6.07 Ship- and boat-building on the River Don: additional footnotes [OP 15]

N&Q 6.08 Murder on the Regent’s Canal

N&Q 6.09 Musical invitation to a canal voyage

N&Q 6.10 Book review: Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

N&Q 6.11 Protection of the Humber in 1798

N&Q 6.12 Musical steam packet

N&Q 6.13 Toll evasion

N&Q 6.14 Conisbrough ferry

N&Q 6.15 Proposed connection between the Don and the Trent, 1827

N&Q 7.01 Edinburgh Conveyance Company tokens

N&Q 7.02 Cherry family and Grand Union Canal

N&Q 7.03 Thomas Taylor and Grand Surrey Canal

N&Q 7.04 Wharf near Bar Lane, Riddlesden, Leeds Liverpool Canal

N&Q 7.05 Canals and poor law rates

N&Q 7.05 Art and craft on the waterways

N&Q 7.06 J M W Turner and the British transport scene 1790–1850

N&Q 7.07 Oddfellows and canal packets

N&Q 7.08 Sale of a sloop, Thorne 1823

N&Q 7.09 The performance of early paddle steamers: a footnote

N&Q 7.10 An unusual cargo for the waterways, York 1831

N&Q 7.11 Crime fiction and canals [N&Q 6.08]

N&Q 8.01 Thomas Taylor & Grand Surrey Canal [N&Q 7.03]

N&Q 8.02 Furness Railway boats on the BCN [N&Q 1.01]

N&Q 8.03 Canal police

N&Q 8.04 Canal passenger services in NW England

N&Q 8.05 Canal Association

N&Q 8.06 Waterways and pottery [OP 22]

N&Q 8.07 Greater Manchester Record Office and the Rochdale Canal

N&Q 9.01 The naming of canals: the Llangollen and Montgomery Canals

N&Q 10.01 How fast did horse–drawn narrow boats go?

N&Q 10.02 Explosive canals?

N&Q 10.03 River Severn: low summer levels (LSL) and height of lock sills above OD

N&Q 10.04 The Fleet Canal

N&Q 10.05 A question of primacy, 1: The first mitre gates on an English Canal

N&Q 10.06 A question of primacy, 2: The oldest surviving pound lock

N&Q 11.01 Navigation over Chester Weir

N&Q 11.02 A canal to Southport

N&Q 11.03 Rail-canal transhipment at the GNR Manchester Deansgate Depot [Sources Paper 19]

N&Q 11.04 Bridgewater Canal flats: Bangor-on-Dee, Worsley, Runcorn and Cornbrook

N&Q 11.05 James Brindley’s purported model canal and lock at Turnhurst Hall, Staffordshire

N&Q 11.06 Beyond the Sankey Navigation: the Stanley Mill contour canal

N&Q 11.07 The Yorkshire river Derwent, and the ‘Staith’ at Bubwith

N&Q 12.01 Outboards on commercial canal craft

N&Q 12.02 Doncaster, 1950: the transport of a boat by road

N&Q 12.03 A note on John Constable’s paintings as a source for waterways history

N&Q 12.04 The early years of the Canal Association [OP 61]

N&Q 12.05 Late navigation on the uppermost Severn

N&Q 12.06 Late navigation on the uppermost Severn [N&Q 12.5]

N&Q 12.07 James Brindley

N&Q 12.08 Richlow – publication of research

N&Q 12.09 Gibson’s: Hull shipbuilders 1789-1897

N&Q 12.10 John May Horrocks, canal carrier

N&Q 12.11 Large flood control structures on English navigable rivers: further notes

N&Q 12.12 Locks and floodgates on the Parrett Navigation up to 1921 [Reprint 16]

N&Q 12.13 Impressment of river and canal boatmen into the Navy

N&Q 12.14 The Institution of Civil Engineers’ inland waterways database

N&Q 13.01 The breach near Sun Trevor, 1945 [Reprint 17]

N&Q 13.02 Impressment of river and canal boatmen into the Navy [N&Q 12.13]

N&Q 13.03 A 14th century cist (or half-lock) on the river Tone, Somerset [Reprint 19]

N&Q 13.04 Mersey / Potteries / Birmingham Canal Improvement Scheme 1923-5

N&Q 13.05 Manchester Ship Canal, the county boundary

N&Q 13.06 The reputation of watermen for swearing

N&Q 14.01 Single barrier navigation structures’ [RCHS Journal no.198]

N&Q 14.02 The reputation of watermen for swearing [N&Q 13.06]

N&Q 14.03 Mersey / Potteries / Birmingham Canal Improvement Scheme, 1923-5 [N&Q 13.04]

N&Q 14.04 Impressments of river and canal boatmen in the Navy [ N&Q 12.13 and 13.02]

N&Q 14.05 Early navigation on the River Kennet to Reading

N&Q 14.06 Thorney Mill Lock revisited

N&Q 14.07 Synchronising the annual stoppage week

N&Q 14.08 Early navigation on the River Kennet to Reading [N&Q 14.05]

N&Q 14.09 Locks and floodgates on the Parrett Navigation up to 1921 [Reprint 16]

N&Q 14.10 Furness Railway boats on the BCN [N&Q 1.01]

N&Q 14.11 Women canal carriers

N&Q 15.01 A GNR excursion to Boston in 1861 [OP 70]

N&Q 15.02 Thorney Mill and Lock revisited (2)

N&Q 15.03 An unidentified narrow boat

N&Q 15.04 Women canal carriers [N&Q 14.11]

N&Q 15.05 John Sutcliffe’s 1816 book on Canals and Reservoirs

N&Q 15.06 Why was a Furness Railway boat registered to the BCN in January 1910? [N&Q 1.01]

N&Q 15.07 Horse boating

N&Q 15.08 The Duke of Bridgewater

N&Q 15.09 The reputation of watermen for swearing [N&Q 13.06]

N&Q 15.10 Byelaws

N&Q 15.11 Leeds & Liverpool Canal boat painting

N&Q 15.12 Byelaws [N&Q 15.10]

N&Q 15.13 The Duke of Bridgewater [N&Q 15.08]

N&Q 16.01 Fussell’s trial balance lock – a boat lift near Mells [OP 71]

N&Q 16.02 The Carlingwark and Glenkens Canals, Kirkcudbrightshire [OP 73]

N&Q 16.03 Thirty Days on English Canals, with some remarks on canal development [Reprint 24]

N&Q 16.04 Masted boats on canals [N&Q 2.01, 4.11 & 5.01]

N&Q 16.05 Thirty Days on English Canals [Reprint 24 & N&Q 16.03]

N&Q 16.06 Masted boats on canals [N&Q 2.01, 4.11, 5.01 &, 16.04]

N&Q 16.07 Measurement of water supply

N&Q 16.08 Turnpike locks

N&Q 16.09 Grand Junction Canal Reservoirs [Reprint 26]

N&Q 16.10 Regional length variations of timber barges

N&Q 16.11 Date of first traditional narrowboat built for cruising?

N&Q 16.12 Regarding the original water supplies to a canal

N&Q 16.13 Pleasure before business [Reprint 27]

N&Q 16.14 L T C (Tom) Rolt

N&Q 17.01 Date of first traditional narrowboat built for cruising? [N&Q 16.11]

N&Q 17.02 The Stover Canal

N&Q 17.03 Length of narrowboats

N&Q 17.04 Turnpike locks [N&Q 16.08]

N&Q 17.05 The early improvement of navigable waterways, transatlantic case studies [OP 76]

N&Q 17.06 Early Iron Vessels on the Mersey, 1815-1838 [Reprint 28]

N&Q 17.07 Mike Clarke's recent comments on ‘Brindley Gates’

N&Q 17.08 London’s first railway dock [Reprint 31]

N&Q 17.09 Date of the first traditional narrowboat built for cruising [N&Q 16.11]

N&Q 17.10 Masted boats on canals [N&Q 16.04]

N&Q 17.11 Dimensions of early inland craft

N&Q 17.12 Lock gate-paddle gear

N&Q 17.13 Measurement of water supply [N&Q 16.07]

N&Q 17.14 Kennet locks

N&Q 17.15 Early navigation on the River Kennet to Reading [N&Q 14.05 & 14.08]

N&Q 17.16 19th century proposals for a ship canal from Dublin to Galway

N&Q 17.17 Canal milestones and mileposts

N&Q 17.18 Transport history in art collections

N&Q 17.19 Cargo carrying canal and estuarial boats of Britain [OP 78]

N&Q 18.01 River navigation at (a) Uxbridge and (b) Reading

N&Q 18.02 The Aberdeenshire Canal, by W Leith [Reprint 38]

N&Q 18.03 The River Ouse (Yorks) Catchment Board 1931-1950 – river improvement in wartime

N&Q 18.04 Barges on the Kennet & Avon Canal: a plea for correct nomenclature [OP 79]

N&Q 18.05 Definition and early use of the term ‘bye-trader’

N&Q 18.06 Bridgewater Canal

N&Q 18.07 River Avon, photographs

N&Q 18.08 Blake’s Lock, Reading [N&Q 17.15]

N&Q 18.09 Cranes used on the Shannon Navigation

N&Q 18.10 Unusual advice on resuscitation

N&Q 18.11 Inland waterways in literature

N&Q 18.12 Carlingwark Canal, Glenlochar Bridge and Culvennan Cut [OP 73 & N&Q 16.02]

N&Q 18.13 re Occasional Paper 16

N&Q 18.14 Mythe Bridge, Tewkesbury

N&Q 18.15 River Weaver

N&Q 18.16 An American scene in 1888

N&Q 18.17 The 'lost' canal at Market Drayton, a supplement to Reprint 37

N&Q 18.18 An abandoned iron barge on the river Shannon

N&Q 18.19 Harecastle Tunnel query

N&Q 18.20 Royal Canal reopening and Scherzer rolling bascule bridges

N&Q 18.21 Unidentified sea-going boat

N&Q 18.22 Swift-boat horses?

N&Q 18.23 Another interesting bit of ephemera (chanced upon whilst searching for something else)

N&Q 18.24 A bendy boat?

N&Q 18.25 Meaning of ‘burthen’

N&Q 19.01 Factors determining dimensions for craft using detached waterways

N&Q 19.02 From Horncastle to Liverpool by steamer in 1855?

N&Q 19.03 American intermodal transport [N&Q 18.16]

N&Q 19.04 Scherzer rolling-bascule bridges [N&Q 18.20]

N&Q 19.05 Chester photograph [N&Q 18.21]

N&Q 19.06 Navigation on the Hertfordshire Colne? [N&Q 18.01]

N&Q 19.07 Bendy boats? [N&Q 18.24]

N&Q 19.08 Query concerning my ongoing research into the Kennet Navigation

N&Q 19.09 Unusual advice on resuscitation [N&Q 18.10]

N&Q 19.10 Orcheton Canal

N&Q 19.11 18th century weights and measures

N&Q 19.12 Carlingwark and Glenkens Canals

N&Q 19.13 Boats operated by the Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland

N&Q 19.14 Did narrowboats trade to Widnes?

N&Q 19.15 The use of poles, quants, shafts etc for propulsion of cargo-carrying vessels

N&Q 19.16 Rubha an Dùnain

N&Q 19.17 Shannon estuary steamer sailings 1840 [OP 84]

N&Q 19.18 Early river navigation

N&Q 19.19 The etymology and pronunciation of ‘winding’

N&Q 19.20 Narrow boats during World War Two

N&Q 19.21 Thomas Dadford junior’s gravestone

N&Q 19.22 Waterways History Workshop 2012

N&Q 20.01 Market boats

N&Q 20.02 The role of supposition or hypothesis in historical publications

N&Q 20.03 West Country carriers and stage coaches before and after turnpiking 1640-1780

N&Q 20.04 Railway use of waterway terms – what is a railway wharf?

N&Q 20.05 The etymology and pronunciation of ‘winding’ [N&Q 19.19]

N&Q 20.06 Wartime boatwomen [N&Q 19.20]

N&Q 20.07 Engineers associated with the Stroudwater Canal

N&Q 20.08 Tupholme Abbey Canal

N&Q 20.09 Henry Augustus Biedermann

N&Q 20.10 New River Water Company

N&Q 20.11 A valuable new research source for waterways history

N&Q 20.12 Lashers?

N&Q 20.13 Back cutting

N&Q 20.14 Early patents

N&Q 20.15 Godnow Bridge, Stainforth & Keadby Canal

N&Q 20.16 David Gordon (1774-1829) and the first steam narrowboat? [Reprint 49]

N&Q 20.17 Early Shannon steamer

N&Q 20.18 Irish waterways: towards a longer list

N&Q 20.19 The ‘other’ William Chapman

N&Q 20.20 Chronological queries

N&Q 20.21 Bingley Five Rise Locks

N&Q 20.22 Norwood Locks

N&Q 20.23 Bowed lock chambers [N&Q 20.12]

N&Q 20.24 The unreliability of publicity material as an historical source

N&Q 20.25 Origin of the term ‘Number Ones’

N&Q 20.26 A woman bargee? [N&Q 19.15, 19.20 & 20.24]

N&Q 20.27 Promotion of early navigation improvement schemes

N&Q 20.28 The typical canal [OP 88]

N&Q 20.29 Forethoughts on canal history [OP 89]

N&Q 20.30 Missing waterways – Scotland [OP 28]

N&Q 21.01 Chronological queries – reply 3 [N&Q 20.20]

N&Q 21.02 Horncastle Canal – request for information – poling holes

N&Q 21.02 Horncastle Canal – date when all navigation ceased

N&Q 21.03 Navigation on the river Went?

N&Q 21.04 O'Briensbridge underwater

N&Q 21.05 Drum Bridge on the Lagan Navigation in Northern Ireland

N&Q 21.06 The Reduction of Smethwick Summit, 1787-1791 [OP 90]

N&Q 21.07 First century river levels at Littleborough and Torksey on the Trent, and on the Witham at Lincoln

N&Q 21.08 Kennet & Avon Canal icebreaker [N&Q 21.08]

N&Q 21.09 Aerofilms Archive

N&Q 21.10 A proposed canal from Dumfries to Annan and Carlisle

N&Q 21.11 What navigable waterways should be researched? [OP 91]

N&Q 21.12 Dearne & Dove Canal at Swinton

N&Q 21.13 Waterway restoration literature

N&Q 21.14 Marl extraction from Irish Loughs

N&Q 21.15 Use of pozzolana in 18th and 19th centuries?

N&Q 21.16 Sheffield sized boats

N&Q 21.17 Film of a 1959 motor barge trip from Sheffield basin

N&Q 21.18 The Gatehouse of Fleet Canal [OP 87]

N&Q 21.19 The reduction of Smethwick Summit 1787-1791 [OP 90]

N&Q 21.20 What is a ‘puddle gutter’?

N&Q 21.21 Aberdeenshire Canal – a weary canal journey [N&Q 18.02]

N&Q 21.22 The Glenkens Canal Bill

N&Q 21.23 Thomas Dadford’s gravestone [N&Q 19.21]

N&Q 21.24 A canal in South Uist? Some preliminary thoughts; and Rubh’an Dunain. [N&Q 19.16]

N&Q 21.25 Major accessions to repositories in 2011 relating to inland waterways [SP 29; N&Q 21.14 & 21.15]

N&Q 21.26 Staircase locks at the Bratch [OP 93]

N&Q 21.27 Compulsory purchase of land

N&Q 21.28 Sand wharf on Regents Canal at Kingsland Basin, Hackney

N&Q 21.29 British canal shareholders and employees

N&Q 21.30 Air draught beneath Irish canal bridges

N&Q 22.01 Mallet’s insistent pontoon bridge [OP 96]

N&Q 22.02 Canal de Briare – Rogny Locks [OP 97]

N&Q 22.03 Reduction of Smethwick Summit [N&Q 21.19 & OP 90]

N&Q 22.04 (not used)

N&Q 22.05 Passing rule

N&Q 22.06 Searching for Mars

N&Q 22.07 Your Paintings

N&Q 22.08 Research Assistant post in waterway history

N&Q 22.09 Leominster Canal lock by-washes

N&Q 22.10 What proportion of the canals in England and Wales have closed since 1945?

N&Q 22.11 Captain John Campbell Carr-Ellison, 1897-1956

N&Q 22.12 Trent & Mersey Canal management

N&Q 22.13 Pickford’s on the BCN

N&Q 22.14 Aesculapian [OP 99]

N&Q 22.15 Narrowboats crossing the Mersey under sail?

N&Q 22.16 Reduction of Smethwick Summit [OP 90]

N&Q 22.17 Turf-sided locks

N&Q 22.18 Thomas Dadford junior’s gravestone [N&Q 19.21]

N&Q 22.19 Dadford’s Leominster Canal locks

N&Q 22.20 Trent & Mersey Navigation Company’s rail-road

N&Q 23.01 The River Douglas and the coal trade

N&Q 23.02 Bunbury Locks

N&Q 23.03 River Weaver lock signals

N&Q 23.04 Looking ‘behind the filing cabinet’ for hidden waterway heritage

N&Q 23.05 Food on the move

N&Q 23.06 Dadford’s Leominster Canal locks [N&Q 22.19]

N&Q 23.07 Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Gordon [OP 92 & Reprint 52]

N&Q 23.08 River Lugg – Hereford & Gloucester Canal

N&Q 23.09 Lune (or Bulk Road) Aqueduct

N&Q 23.10 Definition of ‘canal’

N&Q 23.11 Motor launch trips on Peak Forest Canal in 1906

N&Q 23.12 Conversion of canal structures to other forms of transport

N&Q 23.13 New query relating to Smethwick

N&Q 23.14 Horncastle to Liverpool by steamer in 1855? [N&Q 19.02]

N&Q 23.15 Societies for the prosecution of felons [N&Q 22.12]

N&Q 23.16 Privately owned canal arms

N&Q 23.17 Why was Gailey a split-level reservoir?

N&Q 23.18 Lock gate heelpost ‘cover boards’ and variants

N&Q 23.19 Skew bridges [N&Q 22.04]

N&Q 23.20 Torksey Railway Bridge’ [RCHS Journal No.197 March 2007 pp.518-525]

N&Q 23.21 Canal contractors Dutton & Buckley

N&Q 23.22 Inclined planes (issue 3)

N&Q 23.23 Shardlow: the early years of a canal port [OP 101]

N&Q 23.24 Public relations and press reporting in the nineteenth century – a query

N&Q 23.25 Further notes on Smethwick Summit reduction [OP 90, N&Q 21.19 & 22.16]

N&Q 23.26 Which was the earliest summit canal in the World? [OP 102]

N&Q 23.27 Somerset Coal Canal – a query

N&Q 23.28 Onboard stabling

N&Q 23.29 Meteorological measurements by canal companies

N&Q 23.30 Weighing canal boats

N&Q 24.01 The Midland Short-distance Canal Transport Association

N&Q 24.02 Leominster Canal [N&Q 22.19 & 23.06]

N&Q 24.03 Early Leeds & Liverpool Canal water supplies [N&Q 23.29]

N&Q 24.04 Smethwick Summit reduction, [OP 90, N&Q 21.19, 22.16 & 23.25]

N&Q 24.05 North American canals [OP 104]

N&Q 24.06 Inclined planes [N&Q 23.23]

N&Q 24.07 Calder & Hebble Canal

N&Q 24.08 Screw pumps

N&Q 24.09 Hamburg docks and shipping

N&Q 24.10 Watson’s double canal boat [OP 98]

N&Q 24.11 Chesterfield Canal

N&Q 24.12 Navigation rights on the Upper Trent

N&Q 24.13 Canals and Waterways Journal

N&Q 24.14 The BAOR Inland Water Transport Control Team

N&Q 24.15 The Bridgewater Canal – a World Heritage Site? [OP 105]

N&Q 24.16 Coxes Lock, River Wey Navigation

N&Q 24.17 Development of inland waterways [Reprint 63]

N&Q 24.18 Bulbourne Depot - Grand Junction Canal / Grand Union Canal

N&Q 24.19 The ‘civil engineer’ John Sutcliffe

N&Q 24.20 Experiments of the resistance of barges moving on canals [Reprint 64]

N&Q 24.21 Horncastle Canal – request for information – poling holes? [N&Q 21.02a]

N&Q 24.22 Huddersfield Narrow Canal

N&Q 24.23 Passenger boats to Llangollen and Newtown in 1852

N&Q 24.24 Science Museum photographs

N&Q 24.25 Closure of Barnsley Canal

N&Q 25.01 First century river levels at Littleborough and Torksey [N&Q 21.07]

N&Q 25.02 Rail/canal interchange at Leeds?

N&Q 25.03 Canal horse characteristics

N&Q 25.04 Navigable rivers in 1676

N&Q 25.05 Trade and traffic on the Trent

N&Q 25.06 Some notes on the Silkstone Railway

N&Q 25.07 Sir Richard Brooks and the Bridgewater Canal

N&Q 25.08 The statuette of Mars and the Ellison family – a postscript [OP 108]

N&Q 25.09 Railway interchange trade outside and within the West Midlands

N&Q 25.10 Early Leeds & Liverpool Canal water supplies [N&Q 24.03]

N&Q 25.11 Calder & Hebble Navigation original route

N&Q 25.12 A ‘double handled monkey’

N&Q 25.13 Totnes Bridge and Charles Fowler

N&Q 25.14 Karst and canals

N&Q 25.15 ‘Wares’ and ‘flakes’

N&Q 25.16 Canal to railway conversion justification

N&Q 25.17 New Haven & Northampton Canal

N&Q 25.18 Missing waterways in Scotland [OP 28]

N&Q 25.19 Huddersfield Narrow Canal [N&Q 24.22]

N&Q 25.20 Glenlochar Bridge and the Glenkens Canal scheme

N&Q 25.21 The Peak Forest Canal and Railway: corrigenda and addenda

N&Q 25.22 Robert Samuel Skey (c1761-1844)

N&Q 25.23 Diagonal (partial) weirs

N&Q 25.24 Store Street Aqueduct on the Ashton Canal, Manchester

N&Q 25.25 Obtaining (or opposing) an Act of Parliament

N&Q 25.26 The Roscoe Wheel Weir

N&Q 25.27 Canal images on printing blocks

N&Q 25.28 Some notes on Gosbrook, the mills and aqueducts

N&Q 25.29 Rayner family

N&Q 25.30 Leominster Canal – how did its towpath change side? [OP 114]

N&Q 26.01 Lancelot Brown

N&Q 26.02 Canal horse characteristics

N&Q 26.03 Submerged towpaths

N&Q 26.04 Historic rail track and tunnel revealed during canal maintenance works

N&Q 26.05 A ‘double handed Monday’

N&Q 26.06 GUCCC quarterly returns

N&Q 26.07 A steam ferryboat on the River Idle at Misson

N&Q 26.08 Edwin Foden, ship builder

N&Q 26.09 Policing the Sergeant

N&Q 26.10 Drum Bridge on the Lagan Navigation in Northern Ireland

N&Q 26.11 The Linton Lock Navigation Commissioners – some 1958 correspondence

N&Q 26.12 Canal horse characteristics [N&Q 25.03]

N&Q 26.13 Some notes on the development of British Waterways 1809-1812 [OP 116]

N&Q 26.14 Some notes on Coombe Hill Canal [OP 117]

N&Q 26.15 [PQ 07]

N&Q 26.16 Estuary navigation

N&Q 26.17 Hamburg docks and shipping [N&Q 24.09]

N&Q 26.18 Early water transport

N&Q 26.19 Canal diversions to accommodate railways

N&Q 26.20 Canal wharves at Stoke on Trent

N&Q 26.21 Old Harecastle Tunnel

N&Q 26.22 First century river levels at Littleborough and Torksey on the Trent, and on the Witham at Lincoln [N&Q 21.07]

N&Q 26.23 James Trubshaw, canal engineer

N&Q 26.24 Benjamin Davis, canal surveyor

N&Q 26.25 The wharves at Stone

N&Q 26.26 Rangeley & Dixon

N&Q 26.27 A Leominster Canal puzzle: what is this stone?

N&Q 26.28 London Transport poster, 1965

N&Q 26.29 Lighters

N&Q 26.30 BCN oil depot and tunnel?

N&Q 27.01 Loose ends from canal nationalisation, 1948

N&Q 27.02 Horse-boat timings

N&Q 27.03 Canal deviations caused by railway construction [N&Q 26.19]

N&Q 27.04 James Brindley’s Notebooks

N&Q 27.05 North Eastern Railway canal lock notice

N&Q 27.06 Ure Navigation, Milby Cut Bridge

N&Q 27.07 Swimming in canal locks [OP 119]

N&Q 27.08 The Fleet Canal [N&Q 21.18, OP 87]

N&Q 27.09 River Wyre Navigation [OP120]

N&Q 27.10 The iron trade and the Cumberland coast [OP 122]

N&Q 27.11 Were cows used to assist in puddling canals?

N&Q 27.12 Was Hazledine's name removed from Stretton Aqueduct?

N&Q 27.13 Coastal trading and inland navigation, with reference to Leyland Foundry

N&Q 27.14 Constructing an embankment

N&Q 27.15 John Duncombe

N&Q 27.16 Grand Northern Canal

N&Q 27.17 Chain haulage on canals

N&Q 27.18 Contract for building a canal boat in 1836

N&Q 27.19 Locks on the Leominster Canal

N&Q 27.20 The Water Transport Company

N&Q 27.21 Canal statutes

N&Q 27.22 The summit level of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

N&Q 27.23 Halesowen & Cradley Canal

N&Q 27.24 Israel Rhodes, an ‘eminent engineer’?

N&Q 27.25 Grand Junction Canal Association

N&Q 27.26 Transport of cheese by boat

N&Q 27.27 Wet storage of timber

N&Q 27.28 Travel by water from Bristol to Devizes in 1804

N&Q 27.29 Was this a navigable waterway?

N&Q 27.30 Canal traffic from Whatstandwell, Derbyshire

N&Q 27.31 Trevor Basin Warehouse

N&Q 27.32 Tewitfield Locks – a painting by S J Lamorna Birch

N&Q 27.33 Stroudwater Canal

N&Q 27.34 The Castle Kennedy Canal

N&Q 27.35 Canal Boats Acts 1877/1884 registers and records

N&Q 27.36 Harecastle Tunnel electric tug

N&Q 27.37 Licences for private boats

N&Q 27.38 Boat registrations and boats’ masters

N&Q 27.39 Some notes on the Ffrwd Canal

N&Q 27.40 The rules of navigation – comments prompted by the tragic death of Ann Bridges

N&Q 27.41 Towing boats through tunnels

N&Q 27.42 Stop gates

N&Q 27.43 Puddling

N&Q 27.44 Henry Rodolph de Salis (1866-1936) – a biographical note

N&Q 28.01 The River Cheswold

N&Q 28.02 Samuel Garbett, a forgotten promoter of canals

N&Q 28.03 Some thoughts about the murder of Christina Collins

N&Q 28.04 The canals of the Carron Company

N&Q 28.05 Passenger traffic on canals

N&Q 28.06 Ure Navigation: Milby Cut Bridge [N&Q 27.06]

N&Q 28.07 Alexander Reid

N&Q 28.08 Sump canal feeders

N&Q 28.09 Stover Canal

N&Q 28.10 The influence of Liverpool on canals and vice versa

N&Q 28.11 Transporting materials to and from river waterheads before the Trent & Mersey Canal

N&Q 28.12 The effect of World War I on inland waterways

N&Q 28.13 Crime on the Shroppie

N&Q 28.14 The opening of the Royal Canal at Richmond Harbour, Clondra, Co. Longford, Ireland on 26 May 1817

N&Q 28.15 How widespread was the use of donkeys?

N&Q 28.16 Archive film footage of Dearne & Dove Canal

N&Q 28.17 Town tolls

N&Q 28.18 Wet storage of timber [N&Q 27.27]

N&Q 28.19 Two websites of interest

N&Q 28.20 Grand Canal lottery

N&Q 28.21 Cefn Locks in 1913

N&Q 28.22 Further observations on the Smethwick Summit of the Birmingham Canal Navigations

N&Q 28.23 Stamp End Lock, Lincoln, 1795 to 1826

N&Q 28.24 not used

N&Q 28.25 Lock glossary

N&Q 28.26 Pools Mouth Reservoir

N&Q 28.27 Was Hazledine's name removed from Stretton Aqueduct?

N&Q 28.28 ‘Whipping’: direct transhipment from canal boat to ocean-going ship

N&Q 28.29 Chairs on the Grantham Canal?

N&Q 28.30 Limits of Navigation

N&Q 28.31 Sea travel at night

N&Q 28.32 Torksey Lock, Misterton Soss and reversed-gate locks

N&Q 28.33 Manchester Ship Canal tug Stretford

N&Q 28.34 Stop gates

N&Q 28.35 A portioner working on the Monkland Canal

N&Q 28.36 Filling in the Barnsley Canal

N&Q 28.37 Harecastle Tunnel electric tug [N&Q 27.36]

Occasional Papers

OP 1 Canal carrying: costs, co–operation and competition

OP 2 Thoughts on the writing of Occasional Papers

OP 3 Inland waterway transportation in the Bronze Age: a recent find

OP 4 The Waterways History Research Group: realities and possibilities

OP 5 Five agendas for future research

OP 6 Thoughts on the future of waterways history research

OP 7 Inland waterways and music

OP 8 Canals and inland waterways in British crime fiction

OP 9 Religion on the navigation: Thorne 1911

OP 10 Passenger boats on the River Don 1805-60

OP 11 Two agendas: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, and navigation use of drainage cuts

OP 12 Ferries on the Don: Thorne to Mexborough

OP 13 Inn names of maritime or waterway interest: a supplement

OP 14 The Abbot of Fountains, Baron Duckham and the Black Bank [R. Derwent]

OP 15 Two centuries of ship- and boat–building on the River Don

OP 16 Inland waterways ‘Not in Hadfield’: a preliminary list

OP 17 The Dove Aqueduct: how many arches?

OP 18 Researches into the Trent & Mersey Canal

OP 19 The canalside in Longport 1847-1937

OP 20 Canal sundries traffic in the mid nineteenth century: Wincham Wharf

OP 21 Shipbuilding at Doncaster in the early nineteenth century: a footnote

OP 22 Waterways and pottery: focus on South Yorkshire

OP 23 Severe weather on the navigation: Doncaster and Thorne in the 1870s

OP 24 Courage on the navigation: Levitt Hagg 1887

OP 25 Inn names of maritime or waterway interest: a further supplement

OP 26 A nineteenth century Mexborough boatbuilder: Thomas Scholey

OP 27 Agendas for waterway history research: frameworks and possibilities

OP 28 Missing waterways: Scotland

OP 29 Sideponds: some insights from the Internet

OP 30 Stiffening or ballast booms

OP 31 A launch for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway: Thorne 1893

OP 32 A colossus of the waterways: Victor Waddington: a review article

OP 33 The strike at Dunston’s yard 1899 [Thorne]

OP 34 Merthyr Tydfil 1891: a last boat census

OP 35 Corve barges on the Sheffield Canal

OP 36 Canal company shares as an investment; 36a — an addendum

OP 37 Public houses as meeting places for canal company meetings

OP 38 Travelling by water to the Wembley Exhibition 1924

OP 39 George Robert Jebb

OP 40 (not issued)

OP 41 Public houses as canal company offices

OP 42 Rail and water transport to Stratford on Avon in the 19th century: an oral history source

OP 43 Payment to Oxford Canal Company shareholders on nationalisation

OP 44 Thorne Boating Dikes

OP 45 Airholes on the Rochdale Canal

OP 46 Canal features in western France

OP 47 Leisure activities for a waterside community: water sports at Stainforth, 1894-1989

OP 48 Confessions of an Occasional Paper writer

OP 49 Canal police

OP 50 More on boatbuilding at Levitt Hagg

OP 51 Waterways music: a few more titles

OP 52 Ferries in music

OP 53 When did the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal open?

OP 54 Your holidays with pay

OP 55 Wheaton Aston Lower Lock?

OP 56 Thomas Telford: the fallible engineer

OP 57 Navigation on the river Teme, Worcestershire

OP 58 The 17th century ‘flash–lock’

OP 59 A journey by randan skiff from the Thames to Humber in 1863

OP 60 Trollop’s opinion of the Grand Canal passage boats

OP 61 The early years of the Canal Association

OP 62 Thorney halflock and corn mill, on the Somerset river Parrett

OP 63 Come pleasure boating on the Shropshire Union Canal — in 1926

OP 64 Thoughts on terminology: locks, sluices, staunches and weirs

OP 65 The performance of early paddle steamers on the Humber

OP 66 The Knockin Gate and the Ellesmere Canal

OP 67 Brunel, and the river Parrett’s half-lock at Stanmoor

OP 68 Briare Canal Bridges

OP 69 Early steam vessels on the Dee, 1816-1827

OP 70 Rail, water and road: a GNR excursion to Boston in 1861

OP 71 Fussell’s trial balance lock – a boat lift near Mells

OP 72 Locks and lock flights: the highest and steepest

OP 73 The Carlingwark and Glenkens Canals, Kirkcudbrightshire

OP 74 Canal carriers in the year 1812

OP 75 Chartist riots along the Peak Forest Canal, 1842

OP 76 Meander neck ‘canals’ and the early improvement of navigable waterways – transatlantic case studies

OP 77 Thorne boating dikes and the Stainforth & Keadby Canal revisited

OP 78 Cargo carrying canal and estuarial boats of Britain

OP 79 Barges on the Kennet & Avon Canal: a plea for correct nomenclature

OP 80 The Aberdeenshire Canal [superseded by publication in RCHS Journal]

OP 81 The carriage of mail on canal boats: the Bridgewater Canal 1811

OP 82 Charles Wye Williams and the ‘Bendy Boat’

OP 83 The Witham Navigation in the age of steam

OP 84 Up and under: Shannon estuary steamer sailings 1840

OP 85 Some notes on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Skipton

OP 86 FMC and Bordesley Street Wharf

OP 87 The Gatehouse of Fleet Canal

OP 88 The typical canal

OP 89 Forethoughts on canal history

OP 90 The Reduction of Smethwick Summit, 1787-1791

OP 91 What navigable waterways should be researched?

OP 92 Narrowboats in Galloway: Alexander Gordon, marl and the Carlingwark Canal

OP 93 Staircase locks at the Bratch

OP 94 Leicester Flood Relief (1854-1891)

OP 95 Leicester Flood Relief (1854-1891). Part 2

OP 96 Mallet’s insistent pontoon bridge

OP 97 The Rogny seven-rise lock on the Canal de Briare, France

OP 98 Watson’s double canal boat

OP 99 Aesculapian

OP 100 The Bo’ness Canal

OP 101 Shardlow – the early years of a canal port

OP 102 Which was the earliest summit canal in the World?

OP 103 Proposed boatlifts in England after Anderton

OP 104 Early US canal share certificates

OP 105 The Bridgewater Canal: how important historically?

OP 106 The Mahmoudié mystery (e-mail only)

OP 107 Waterways at Apsley, Huddersfield

OP 108 The discovery of a statuette of Mars at Torksey in the 18th century

OP 109 Some notes on the Caistor Canal

OP 110 Some notes on the Durham Canal

OP 111 British Waterways management pf the River Lee – some observations

OP 112 Bridges without towpaths: O’Briensbridge

OP 113 Self-portraits? How some American canals saw themselves

OP 114 Leominster Canal: how did its towpath change side

OP 115 Dating and describing still photographs in online repositories

OP 116 Some notes on the development of British waterways 1809-1812

OP 117 Some notes on the Coombe Hill Canal

OP 118 The diversion of the Roman road at Littleborough on Trent

OP 119 The Naller

OP 120 River Wyre Navigation

OP 121 Navigations in Zambia

OP 122 The Iron Trade and the Cumberland Coast

OP 123 River Soar Improvement 1887-1891

OP 124 A deodand on the Royal Canal

OP 125 Proposed boatlifts in England after Anderton

OP 126 The Lincoln Navigation: Fossdike in the Ellison era

OP 127 Mr Paterson’s steamer

OP 128 Brindley gates, safety gates, stop gates and stop planks

OP 129 Tolls by long water

OP 130 A second Roman paved ford across the river Trent at Littleborough, Nottinghamshire, and the course of the river there

OP 131 Future Contributions to Waterways History: some thoughts

OP 132 Hind River Navigation

OP 133 The Broharris and Ballykelly Canals

Reprints

Reprint 1 Clogs and Gansey [Leeds & Liverpool Canal Society]

Reprint 2 The archaeology of navigation on the Upper Severn [Telford Historical & Archaeological Society]

Reprint 3 Brindley’s Triumph: Tunnel vision

Reprint 4 Early boats on the Ashby: further notes [The Spout]

Reprint 5 Barges on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal [Liverpool Nautical Research Society]

Reprint 6 Inland waterways and the Romans [Doncaster Archaeological Society’s Newsletter, 11]

Reprint 7 A poetical sketch of the Norwich & Lowestoft navigation works

Reprint 8 Norwich lock

Reprint 9 Martham ferry

Reprint 10 Sing as we go – old canal songs] [Canal & Riverboat, July to September 1994]

Reprint 11 The canal comes to Whitchurch

Reprint 12 The original design of the locks between Nantwich and Autherley

Reprint 13 The Stamford Canal: a seventeenth century navigation

Reprint 14 The breach near Market Drayton, 1869 [Shroppie Fly Paper]

Reprint 15 The forgotten anniversary – Ellesmere Canal [Shroppie Fly Paper]

Reprint 16 Locks and floodgates on the Parrett Navigation up to 1921

Reprint 17 The breach near Sun Trevor, 1945 [Shroppie Fly Paper]

Reprint 18 The Ellesmere Canal’s first chairmen [Shroppie Fly Paper]

Reprint 19 A fourteenth century cist (or halflock) on the river Tone, Somerset – Thomas Hugo 1862

Reprint 20 New ‘Brindley’ find at Castlefield, Manchester [Industrial Archaeology News, 142]

Reprint 21 Early Mersey passenger steamers up to 1840 [Liverpool Nautical Research Society, November 1998, pp 73-79]

Reprint 22 Some early paddle engines on the Mersey [Liverpool Nautical Research Society Bulletin, 45/3, pp 40-46]

Reprint 23 The Avon Navigation and the inland port of Bath [Bath History, VI (1996)]

Reprint 24 Thirty days on English canals, with some remarks on canal development

Reprint 25 The Montgomery Canal [Friends of the Montgomery Canal]

Reprint 26 Grand Junction Canal reservoirs [The Civil Engineer & Architects Journal, January 1838]

Reprint 27 Pleasure before business

Reprint 28 Early iron vessels on the Mersey, 1815-1838 [Liverpool Nautical Research Society Bulletin, 43/2, pp 21-24]

Reprint 29 Contract for the construction of Navigation Works on the river Ivel [Hertfordshire RO, no. 28900 A]

Reprint 30 Canal workers and boatmen around Accrington [Aspects of Accrington]

Reprint 31 London’s first railway dock [Survey of London, 43 & 44, pp 336-41]

Reprint 32 The Boat Level [Shroppie Fly Paper]

Reprint 33 Lock gates

Reprint 34 A case on behalf of the Petitioners for making river Aire navigable [York Minster Library, Hailstone Collection]

Reprint 35 Railway signals near Doncaster [The Railway Magazine July 1951, pp 494-5]

Reprint 36 Canal boat building in Blackburn’ [Aspects of Blackburn, 2008]

Reprint 37 Tyrley: a lost canal found [Shroppie Fly Paper]

Reprint 38 The Aberdeenshire Canal [London & North Eastern Railway Magazine, 1929, pp 526-8]

Reprint 38a The Aberdeenshire Canal [transcription of Rennie's report, I.C.E. Archive, no. REN/RB/01]

Reprint 38b The Aberdeenshire Canal [extracts from Great North Review, with photographs of the canal]

Reprint 39 Thumpton Weir, an 1841 dispute between Trent Navigation Proprietors and the Midland Railway

Reprint 40 North Bridge, Hull, an historical audit, March 2003

Reprint 41 Commercial traffic on the Upper Dee [Liverpool Nautical Research Society Bulletin, 39/3, pp 59-63]

Reprint 42 Down the Suir in a railway carriage (interweb item)

Reprint 43 A mystery solved? The Shrewsbury Canal’s guillotine gates [S&News, 40/1 (February 2011)]

Reprint 44a New lifting bridge over the Trent at Keadby

Reprint 44b Keadby Bridge – abstract of paper

Reprint 45 The Glenkens Canal – newspaper announcements and correspondence 1801-05

Reprint 46 Passenger-carrying steamboat services on the river Trent, 1814-1914

Reprint 46a Passenger carrying steamboat services on the river Ouse, 1835 [Ripon Motor Boat Club’s Cruising Guide to the North East

Waterways]

Reprint 47 A Shropshire Union pub crawl [Cuttings]

Reprint 48 The first fare-paying passenger on a river steamboat [The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries concerning the

Antiquities, History and Biography of America, New York, August 1858, pp 227-8]

Reprint 49 David Gordon (1774-1829) and the first steam narrowboats

Reprint 50 Steam tugboats on the Swansea Canal [South West Wales Industrial Archaeological Society Bulletin, June 2012]

Reprint 51 Roman Navigation in Northern England? [RCHS Journal, XXVIII (1984) pp 118-24]

Reprint 52 House of Commons Papers – First Report from the Highways Committee, 1808

Reprint 53 Newark’s Waterways [Ripon Motor Boat Club’s Cruising Guide to the North East Waterways]

Reprint 54 Essays on history, biography, geography, engineering etc [Quarterly Review, (1858), 211-222

Reprint 55 The Roman bridge on the river Trent at Cromwell [Jour. British Archaeological Association, xli (1885), 83-5

Reprint 56 Flashlocks on English Waterways: a survey [Industrial Archaeology, 6/3 (1969), 233-4]

Reprint 57 Back to Burton [Motorboat & Yachting, October 1975, 45-7]

Reprint 58 Jumping barge horses on the river Stour

Reprint 59 The Shropshire Union at war [Cuttings, December 2012]

Reprint 60 The Huddersfield Canal and its water supply [L.& N.W. Railway Gazette vol. 5 (1916) pp 316-17]

Reprint 61 Early history of the Chesterfield Canal

Reprint 62 Leeds and Liverpool Canal – construction job descriptions [Bradford RO, Jowett Papers JOW/11/a/2/40]

Reprint 63 Development of inland waterways [TNA RAIL253/534, Western Daily Press, 30 January 1914]

Reprint 64 Experiments of the resistance of barges moving on canals [American Railroad Journal]

Reprint 65 A canal scheme for Knaresborough [original document]

Reprint 66 The Glasgow, Paisley & Ardrossan Canal [Industrial Heritage]

Reprint 67 The Rosehall Canal: the most northerly in Great Britain? [RCHS Journal, no.181, 38-39, updated]

Reprint 68 Keadby Lock swingbridge [TNA, MT 114/233]

Reprint 69 Crime on the Shroppie [Peter Brown]

Reprint 70 1894 Mittheilungen des k k Geographischen Gesellschafts Wien; The Wiener-Neustadt Canal — Dr Friedrich Umlauft

Sources Papers

SP 1 Sources for the history of waterways: a personal comment on newspapers and directories

SP 2 Coal duties of the City of London: an agenda for future research

SP 3 Paintings at Tewkesbury

SP 4 Papers covering some aspects of rail, road and canal competition between the wars

SP 5 Private papers: William Mackenzie, canal and railway engineer 1794–1851

SP 6 Canal bye-laws ― a source of information

SP 7 Notes on the chemical industry and canal transport (1)

SP 8 Notes on the chemical industry and canal transport (2)

SP 9 Popularised memories: Noel Streatfield’s The Day Before Yesterday

SP 10 Costs and earnings of a Hull barge 1958–59

SP 11 Inland Waterways Hydrology Study Group

SP 11a Notes on early motorised canal boats

SP 12 Trent & Mersey traffic in May 1938

SP 13 British Library Manuscripts online catalogue

SP 14 Revd Llewellin’s life among the bargees in the 1920s

SP 15 Canal Control Committee Handbook on Canals, Nov. 1918

SP 16 ‘Painted Boats’ [documentary scenes in the 1945 film]

SP 17 Traffic on the Nottingham Canal during its final years

SP 18 Advertised regular canal carrying services in 1932

SP 19 Rail-canal transhipment at the Great Northern Railway’s Manchester Deansgate goods depot

SP 20 Waterway archives at the Society of Antiquaries

SP 21 Untapped archives for the Bridgewater Canal at the University of Salford’s Clifford Whitworth Library

SP 22 George Washington and (the other) James Brindley

SP 23 Canal tugs: horses for courses

SP 24 Historical weather records

SP 25 Shropshire Union Canal: Regulations and Job Descriptions 1853

SP 26 Cromford Canal permits

SP 27 Canal books & pamphlets reproduced on the Internet – British canals (to 1900)

SP 28 More about the ‘other’ James Brindley

SP 29 Major accessions to repositories in 2011 relating to inland waterways, abstracted from The National Archives: ‘Major accessions

to repositories in 2011 relating to Transport’

SP 30 A Treatise on Canals and Reservoirs, by John Sutcliffe – an extract

SP 31 The Hadfield Collection