BW8
Basingstoke Canal Purchase Committee
Description
Records of the Basingstoke Canal Purchase Committee: papers relating to the sale and preservation of the canal 1949-1950.
Date
1949-1950
Reference code
BW8
Access Status
These records are available immediately for research
Administrative / Biographical history
The Basingstoke Canal was sold to the New Basingstoke Canal Company Limited in 1949.
For further information on the Basingstoke Canal see Edward Paget-Tomlinson's 'The Illustrated History of Canals & River Navigations' and Charles Hadfield's 'The Canals of South and South East England'.
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.
Associated material
[See also: BW6, 7, 9 and 10 for records of the Basingstoke Canal during other periods of ownership]