Maps & books

By Pat Warner

"This is an autobiography covering Pat's childhood years living in a lock cottage on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal during the 1920s and 1930s. Her father, John, was a long term lock keeper who endured a string of family tragedies which saw his wife and most of his children die before Pat was three." 

DVD from the Sight Seen Partnerships - running time 26 mins.

The techiques and equipment of a Victorian waterway warehouse.

By Tom Foxon

This is the first book in Tom’s Foxon’s trilogy - following volumes are "Number One" and Following the Trade"

By David Blagrove

David Blagrove descibes the last years of regular narrow-boat traffics on the Grand Union Canal and connecting waterways. He writes with great feeling of the difficulties faced by canal carriers and boatmen in the 1960s, including the ‘great freeze’ of 1962/3.