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Navigable Waterways by LTC Rolt Revised edition Soft Cover
Navigable Waterways by LTC Rolt
The revised edition of Rolt's classic and readable study of industrial archaeology with a postscritp by Bryan Marsh
Soft Cover
239 pages
Copyright 1985
CONTENTS
List Of Illustrations 7
Illustration Acknowledgements 8
Introductory Note To The Revised Edition 9
Introduction 11
One
River Improvement Before 1700 19
Two
Towards The Canal Era, 1700-1760 37
Three The First Canals 49
Four
The Coast To Coast Routes 77
Five
The Waterways Of The West 103
Six
The Midlands Network 123
Seven
The Last Canals 145
Eight
Forgotten Waterways 155
Nine Water Supply And Conservation 167
Ten Traffic And Motive Power 187
Postscript To The Revised Edition 207
Source References 213
Gazetteer 220
Select Bibliography 228
Index 231
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. James Brindley (1716-72), engineer of the early contour canals. Engraving by J. T. Wedgwood showing the Barton aqueduct in the background.
2. Thomas Telford (1757-1834), father of modern civil engineering.
3. Flash locks: illustration from Robertson's Life on the Upper Thames, 1875, showing rimer and paddle type.
4. `Ballasting' on the Upper Thames, from Robertson's Life on the Upper Thames.
5. Barton aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal. Considered one of the wonders of the world when it was first built, it was demolished when the Manchester Ship Canal was built and replaced by the Barton swing aqueduct.
6. Regent's Canal at Paddington. In the foreground a narrow boat carrying mixed goods, on the left hay boats, on the right a barge carrying stone for construction work.
7. Inclined lift of bucket-in-well type with fly governor.
8. Vertical lift with caissons confined to upper level and boats freely suspended. Fly governor and lift activated pumps to return caisson water. Both illustrations from Fulton's Treatise on Canal Navigation, 1796.
9. Grand Union Canal: Foxton staircase locks. There are no paddles on the gates, and the paddle by the intermediate gates connects to the side pond, not shown in the picture.
10. Leeds & Liverpool Canal: an unusual early photograph of Bingley Five-rise taken during a stoppage, showing all gates open.
11. Sail power: sailing vessels on the Caledonian Canal.
12. Horse power: horse-drawn narrow boat on the Oxford Canal.
13. Steam power: Steam-driven wide boat tug pulling a train of coal barges on the Regent section of the Grand Union Canal.
14. Engine of Leeds & Liverpool Canal steamer.
15. Engine of Fellows, Morton & Clayton steamer Viceroy.
16 and 17. Life afloat: two illustrations showing a narrow boat cabin interior from Rob Rat, 1878. Note the entire absence of decoration.
18. Christening party at the bottom of Long Buckby locks on board butty boat Elaine.
ON THE BACK COVER:
L.T.C. Rolt's love for, and knowledge of, the waterways of Great Britain were unparalleled. Most important, he brought the eye of a trained engineer to bear on the canals and waterworks which were the brainchildren of the first civil engineers.
His book is a fascinating history of Britain's waterways, starting with the first tentative attempts at river development and progressing with a detailed account of the great age of canal-building, and the integral part such men as Brindley and Telford played, as - with the Industrial Revolution - the efficient transport of heavy goods became a necessity. Finally, he charts the decline of the waterways as the railroads took hold, and the re-awakening of interest as the new leisure traffic discovered the old river and canal routes in the twentieth century.
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