BW129
Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company Limited
Description
Records of the Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company Limited: blank invoice early 20th century.
Date
Early 20th century
Reference code
BW129
Access Status
These records are available immediately for research
Administrative / Biographical history
The coal carrying company of John Griffiths, Bedford, traded on the Coventry and Ashby canals. In the early 1930s, Griffiths was reorganised as the Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company. Harry Cleaver was a director of the newly-named company. The Charity Dock Yard, on the bend ¼ mile south of Marston Junction near Bedworth on the Coventry Canal, was the home of the Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company. It seems that the name Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company was an exercise in misbranding, because although information can be found for the Griffiths company, very little can be found for the Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company. People perhaps found the name too long and preferred to stick with Griffiths!
For further information on the Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company Limited see Edward Paget-Tomlinson's 'Colours of the Cut' (Landmark Publishing, 2004).
System of arrangement
It has not been possible to ascertain any original structure of record-keeping from the small number of records held for this company. The fonds has therefore been arranged in chronological order.