BW145

Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Navigations

Description

Records of the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham & Birmingham & Fazeley Canal Navigations: agreements 1786-1794, loading tickets 1790, book of reference 1792.

Date

1786-1794

Reference code

BW145

Access Status

These records are available immediately for research

Administrative / Biographical history

In 1784 the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal Company amalgamated with the Birmingham Canal Navigation company and the new company was named the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham & Birmingham & Fazeley Canal Navigations. The Birmingham & Fazeley Canal was completed in 1789, connecting Birmingham with Fradley on the Trent and Mersey Canal in conjunction with the Coventry Canal. From 1794 the company was known as the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN). For further information on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal see Edward Paget-Tomlinson's 'The Illustrated History of Canals & River Navigations'.

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.