CRT/BMT/53
Bundle of documents and publications relating to the Aire & Calder Navigation
Description
1.James III (6th December 1698) Act for the making and keeping navigable the rivers of Aire and Calder in the county of York.
2.Handwritten notebook containing inventories of 'the tackle and furniture of the Undertakers vessels' , date assumed to be 17th/18th century.
3. Typewritten booklet entitled 'From Tug to Tug or The Reminiscences of a Water Baby' by Nellie Gale. Working family on the Humber keel 'William & Mary'
4. Copy of the Report to the Wakefield Local Board of Health on the Sewerage of the Borough by M O Tarbotton, Borough Surveyor 1856
5. Booklet 'Canal Boat Children' by Robert J Parr, director of the National Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children. Dated 1910
6. Printed Dissertation on ancient Bridges and Bridge Chapels, especially on Wakefield Bridge by Norrisson Scatcherd Esq dated 1828
Date
1698 - 1980
Reference code
CRT/BMT/53
Extent & medium
1 bundle
System of arrangement
6 seemingly unconnected volumes