Lock Keeper's Daughter |
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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." |
£8.99 | |
A Horse, A Boat and You |
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By Alice Lapworth "Alice Lapworth is one of those who remain of a breed of people who are rapidly vanishing from among us. She was born in 1944, to a family of boat-people, in the back cabin of a horse boat at Tunstall on the Shropshire Union Canal. |
£5.99 | |
A Boat Builder's Sketchbook |
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by Ken Keay Read about the lost art of building wooden narrow boats. This is no colouring book for children, but a collection of beautifully drawn technical diagrams. A reprint of the original 1993 limited edition, with exclusive new material, a new introduction and new high resolution reproductions of Ken Keay's original drawings. re-published by HNBC |
£10.00 | |
Birmingham Canal Navigations 1950-1977 |
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Compiled by Mike Harrison and published by the Club, this new book follows a photographic journey through the BCN at a time when the sights and sounds of this once heavily industrialised area could still be experienced, before the destruction of the many iconic buildings. It has been very well received with excellent reviews in the waterways press such as Waterways World, NarrowBoat, Towpath Talk, Canal Boat, The Blackcountryman, Boundary Post, the BCNS Journal. |
£12.00 | |
Our Disappearing Heritage |
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By Val Roberts A fascinating collection of photographs from around the waterways system, identifying where modern developments have impacted on historic sites. With contributions from HNBOC members. Published by HNBOC in 2005 P&P will be added at checkout. |
£1.00 | |
DVD - Towpath Encounter |
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DVD from the Sight Seen Partnerships - running time 18 mins. Horse Boating on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal. |
£12.00 | |
DVD - Warehouse at Work |
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DVD from the Sight Seen Partnerships - running time 26 mins. The techiques and equipment of a Victorian waterway warehouse. |
£12.00 | |
DVD - A Tanner a Night |
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DVD from the Sight Seen Partnerships The everyday work of a boat horse stable on the Trent & Mersey Canal. |
£12.00 | |
DVD - Last coal run from Anglesey |
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DVD from the Sight Seen Partnerships - running time 35 mins. Recreating a coal run from Anglesey, on the edge of Cannock Chase, to the Black Country. |
£12.00 | |
DVD - Gunnels Under |
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DVD from the Sight Seen Partnerships - running time 36 mins. Re-floating a sunken narrow boat. |
£12.00 |
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