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Canals in Nottingham
[Appleton, W. A.] Nottingham's Highway to the Sea. [Nottingham City Council. Trent Navigation Committee, 1926]. [33] p., ill. Covers the period 1880-1926.
Barnes, F. A. 'Cut Off!', Lenton Times, issue 3 (1989), 20-22, ill. The Nottingham Canal.
Berry, L. 'The Canal and Lenton', Lenton Times, issue 2 (1989), 12-15, ill.
Cooke, S. M. 'Nottingham Canal', Nottingham City News (Sep 1973) 2-3, ill.
Hemingway, G. Y. 'The Lower Part of the Nottingham Canal and the Beeston Cut in 1982', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 27 (1983), 200-202.
Nottingham City Council. Planning Dept. Nottingham & Beeston Canal. Rev. ed. Nottingham, 1983. [23] p., ill. 1st ed., 1981.
Stevenson, P. 'The Bilborough Cut Branch of the Nottingham Canal', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 12 (1966), 7-9.
[Zaleski, S.] 'Canals and Lenton', Lenton Listener, no. 12 (1981), [1], [3]-[5], ill.
Canals and inland waterways in Nottinghamshire
General
Bryce, I. Canals are My World. Burton-on-Trent, J. M. Pearson, 1986. 160 p., ill. Nt, passim.
Heath, J. E. 'Boats and Boat-Builders of the East Midlands in the Nineteenth Century', Transport History, 7 (1974), 134-140, ill. Nt, passim. Re-issued in same journal, 7, 3 [with 8, 1] (1977), [75]-80, ill.
[Widdowson, B., comp.] Boatmen, Boat Owners and Boat Builders: Trent Navigation Co. Gauging Tables, 1779-1907; Nottingham's [sic] Canal Boat Register, 1879-1952; Cromford Canal Permits, 1841-1842 (R.S., 104). Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Family History Soc., 1996. 88 p., ill.
Williams, B. C. J. The Lower Soar and the Loughborough Navigation. M.Phil., Loughborough, 1986.
Rivers
Beckwith, I. S. 'The River Trade of Gainsborough, 1500-1850', Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2 (1967), 3-20.
Edwards, K. C. 'The Economic Aspects of the Trent', in British Association for the Advancement of Science, A Scientific Survey of Nottingham and District (1937), 99-101.
Evans, J. T. Notes on the History of the Navigation of the River Trent. [Nottingham, Trent Navigation Co.], 1945. 25 p., ill.
Hart, H. W. 'The Canal Barge Gauging Procedure Adopted by the Trent Navigation Committee (1797)', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 8 (1962), 23-30.
Hemingway, G. Y., ed. `Extracts from the Minutes of the Newark Navigation Commissioners', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 27 (1983), 292-295.
Holland, D. Bawtry and the Idle River Trade (Doncaster Museums and Arts Service Publications, 31). [Rev. ed.]. Doncaster, 1976. 15 p., ill. 1st ed., 1964.
Miller, M. G. 'Trent Navigation Boat Gauge Tables', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 23 (1977), 80-83.
Owen, C. C. 'The Early History of the Upper Trent Navigation', Transport History, 1 (1968), 233-240, 249-259, ill.
Paget-Tomlinson, E. Britain's Canal & River Craft. Ashbourne, Moorland, 1979. 'Yorkshire and Trent Craft', [54]-75. Mainly pictorial.
Roffey, J. 'An Almost Forgotten Waterway ... The History of the River Idle', Waterways World, 13, 7 (1984), 47-49, ill.
Salisbury, C. R. 'The Taming of the Trent', East Midlands Archaeology, 1 (1985), 5-12, ill.
Telling, A. E. 'Navigation of the Trent, A.D. 43-1978: Pages from Legal History', Trent Law Journal, 2 (1978), 11-16.
Wood, A. C. 'The History of Trade and Transport on the River Trent', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 54 (1950), 1-44, ill.
Canals: General
Bickel, R and Bickel, J. Turning back the pages on... Nottinghamshire Canals, Nottinghamshire County Council, 2010
Cooke, S. M. Boat People of the East Midlands, 1770-1851, M.A., Nottingham, 1989. 71 p., ill, bibl. Nt, passim.
Hadfield, C. The Canals of the East Midlands (Including Part of London) (Canals of the British Isles). 2nd ed. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1970. Nottinghamshire, 30-78, 185-207, ill. 1st ed., 1966.
Hadfield, C. and Skempton, A. W. William Jessop, Engineer. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1979. 'The Canal Mania and the Trent', 40-61, ill.; 'Everton, Gringley and Misterton Drainage', 77-84, ill.; life at Newark, 253-256.
Hopkinson, G. G. 'The Inland Navigations of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Coalfield, 1777-1856', Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Soc., 79 (1959), [22]-41.
Morley, D. S. 'Canals in the East Midlands', Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology Society Journal, 16, 1 (1990), 6-10; 16, 2 (1991), 1-4, ill. Mainly Nt.
Nottinghamshire County Council. Department of Planning and Transportation. Canals in Nottinghamshire: A Survey in Industrial Archaeology. [West Bridgford, c.1975]. [36] p., ill., bibl. By A. Patrick.
Palmer, B. H. 'Nottingham's Canals - Past and Present', Industrial Heritage Challenge, Nottingham, no. 6 (1994), 5-8, ill.
Rees, H. D. 'The Beeston Cut', Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology Society Journal, 21, 2 (1996), 3-6, ill.
Russell, R. Lost Canals of England and Wales. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1971. Nottinghamshire, 184-187, 194-197, ill.
Stevenson, P., ed. 'Observations on the State of the River Trent and the Proposed Canal from Shardlow to Nottingham', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 31 (1993), 139-142. Text of an anonymous 18th c. pamphlet.
University of Nottingham. Department of Adult Education and Workers Educational Association. East Midlands District. The Navigable Waterways of Nottinghamshire: A Survey in Industrial Archaeology. [Nottingham], 1981. 77 p., ill.
Widdowson, B. 'Nottinghamshire Boatmen', Nottinghamshire Family History Society Journal, 8, 5 (1995), 13-14.
Chesterfield Canal
Atkinson, J. A. L. Chesterfield Canal: History & Cruising Guide. [n.p., privately published, 1971]. 28 p., ill. Described from xerographic copy. Original not located.
'Barrow-loads from Barrow [upon Soar]', Brindley's Triumph, no. 5 (1996), 8-10, 23, ill.
'Boat Registers: Detailed Records of all the Boats that Worked on the Canal', Brindley's Triumph, no. 1 (1995), 8-11, 23, ill.
'Boat-horses', Brindley's Triumph, no. 3 (1995), 6-7, 23, ill.
'Bricks, more bricks', Brindley's Triumph, no. 3 (1995), 12-13, 23, ill.
Brindley's Triumph. The History Journal of the Chesterfield Canal and Associated Local Waterways. Aughton, Yorkshire, no. 1-6, 1995-96. Bi-monthly. Suspended. Index to nos 1-6, [1996].
'The Chesterfield & Swarkeston Canal (Missing Links)', Brindley's Triumph, no. 3 (1995), 16-19, 23, ill. A Proposed extension of the Chesterfield Canal.
Chesterfield Canal Company Minutes of the Chesterfield Canal Company, 1771-80, ed. by C. Richardson, with an introd. by P. Riden (Derbyshire Record Soc., 24). Chesterfield, The Soc., 1996. 238 p., ill. (on end-papers).
Chesterfield Public Library. A Bibliography of Items in the Local Collection Relating to the Chesterfield Canal. [Chesterfield, 196-?]. 2 p., ill.
Corrie, E. E. 'Mr Gagg's Dredging Days', Brindley's Triumph, no. 6 (1996), 10-16, ill.
'Cuckoos in the nest', Brindley's Triumph, no. 3 (1995), 14-15, 23. A name for the working boats of the Canal.
Hartman, S. 'The Chesterfield Canal', Nottinghamshire Countryside (published as part of
Topic), (Feb 1983), 70-72, ill.
Lower, J. The Chesterfield Canal. [4th ed.] Chesterfield Canal Soc., 1991. 26 p., ill. 1st ed., [1977], anonymously, as The Chesterfield Canal, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Redfern, R. A. 'James Brindley's Inspiration: The Chesterfield Canal', Country Life, 163 (1978), 1738-1739, ill.
Richardson, C. and Bird, J. C. The Chesterfield Canal (West Stockwith to Rhodesia). [n.p.], Chesterfield Canal Soc., 1985. 41 p., ill.
Richardson, C. '18th Century Roads and the Chesterfield Canal', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 32 (1996), 125-127, ill.
Richardson, C. The Waterways Revolution: From the Peaks [sic] To the Trent, 1768-1778. Hanley Swan, Worcestershire, Self Publishing Assoc., 1992. 287 p., ill., bibl.
Roffey, J. The Chesterfield Canal: The History of a Unique Waterway and a Description of its Route. Buckingham, Barracuda, 1989. 148 p., ill., bibl.
Roffey, S. `A Village and its Canal ... The Effect of the Chesterfield Canal on the Nottinghamshire Farming Community of Clayworth', Waterways World, 9, 6 (1980), 52-54, ill.
'This Way or That', Brindley's Triumph, no. 4 (1996), 16-19, 23, ill. A rejected route via Carlton-in-Lindrick and Bawtry.
'Tons of Confusion', Brindley's Triumph, no 2 (1995), 16-18, 23. Cargo measurement.
'Wharfingers', Brindley's Triumph, no 1 (1995), 16-19, 23, ill.
'Wide Waters and Narrow Boats: Boats from a Narrow, Shallow Canal on the Great Tideway of the River Trent', Brindley's Triumph, no. 2 (1995), 8-11, 23, ill.
'Wine, Spirits --- and Pig-Iron: Some Cargoes Were not What They Were Supposed to Be', Brindley's Triumph, no. 1 (1995), 13-14, 23.
Cromford Canal
Potter, H. The Cromford Canal, Stroud, The History Press, 2003
Grantham Canal
Cheetham, A. K. 'The Grantham Canal', Nottinghamshire Local History Council Newsletter, no. 8 (1971), 4-5.
Cove-Smith, C. The Grantham Canal Today: A Brief History and Guide. Long Eaton, Derbyshire, M. D. Mitchell, 1974. 52 p., ill. Amended repr., by M. T. Crosby and T. M. Atherley, 1986.
Hammond, P. J. 'Sewage on the Cut: The Grantham Canal and its Unsavoury Cargo', Nottingham Industrial Heritage, no. 8 (1995), 13-16, ill.
Hunt, W. M. 'The Promotion of the Grantham Canal', Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, 32, 1 (1996), 12-25, ill.
Miller, M. 'A Suitable Case for Treatment - the Grantham Canal', Nottingham Topic, (May 1975), 32-33, ill.
Mitchell, M. Water Supply (Canals Explained, 1). [Long Eaton, Derbyshire], Grantham Canal Restoration Society, [197-?]. 7 p.
Palmer, B. H. 'The Grantham Canal, Past, Present --- and Future', Industrial Heritage Challenge, Nottingham, no. 7 (1995), 4-8, ill.
Philpotts, R. The Grantham Canal: Early Days. [Reading, privately published], 1976. [15] p., ill.
Redfern, R. A. 'Waterway of a Threatened Vale: The Grantham Canal', Country Life, 167 (1980), 302-303, ill.
Topliss, J. 'Nottingham-Grantham Council [sic] (Back Door Britain, 1)', Nottingham Observer (Sep 1986), 29-31, ill.
Walker, H. W. O. 'The Grantham Canal - Past, Present and Future?', Nottinghamshire Countryside (published as part of
Topic), (Nov 1971), [14]-[15], ill.
Nottingham Canal
Chell, B. W. Nottingham Canal, Tempus, 2006
Chell, B. W. Nottingham's Lost Canal. Ripley, Derbyshire, Footprint Pr., 1995. 120 p., ill., bibl.
University of Nottingham. Department of Adult Education and Workers' Educational Association. East Midlands District. The Nottingham Canal: A Datal Survey, 1982. 1982. 57 p., ill.
Zaleski, S. The Nottingham Canal - Past & Present Local History Press, 2001
[Zaleski, S.] 'The Story of the Nottingham Canal', Lenton Times, issue 2 (1989), 4-9, ill.
Ford, R. `Trent By-pass ... the Nottingham & Beeston Canal', Waterways World, 13, 1 (1984), 56-58, ill. The Beeston Cut.