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Anderton Carrying Company & Anderton Company Ltd
Arthur Watts Collection
Bacat Systems Aps
Barbridge Junction
Basingstoke Canal Purchase Committee
Birmingham and Midland Canal Carrying Company Limited
Bradford Canal Company Limited
Bradford Canal Joint Committee
Bridgewater Canal
Bridgewater Navigation Company Limited
British Railways Board
British Transport Commission
British Transport Commission: British Transport Waterways
British Transport Commission: British Waterways
British Transport Commission: Docks and Inland Waterways Executive
British Transport Commission: Humber Ports
British Transport Commission: Railway and Docks and Inland Waterways executives
British Transport Commission: Railway Executive
British Transport Commission: Railways Division
British Transport Commission: South Wales Docks: Civil Engineer's Office
British Waterways - Weaver Navigation Files
British Waterways Board
British Waterways, records
Cadbury Bros Ltd
Canal & River Trust Collection
Canal and River Navigation Acts
Canal Association Documents
Canal Camps/ Waterway Recovery Group
Canal Control Committee
Canal Joint Committee
Charles Ballinger
Collection of papers relating to Eily(Kit) Gayford
Collection of Plans, Maps and Drawings ex BW Gloucester
Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Severn
Commissioners for the River Nene
Commissioners of the Caledonian Canal
Commissioners of the Forth and Clyde Navigation
Commissioners of the Louth Navigation
Commissioners of the River Colne Navigation
Commissioners of the River Ure Navigation
Committee of the Carlisle Canal Company
Company of Proprietors of the Andover Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Barnsley Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Basingstoke Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Navigations
Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigations
Company of Proprietors of the Bradford Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Canal Navigation from Leeds to Liverpool
Company of Proprietors of the Canal Navigation from Manchester to or near Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham
Company of Proprietors of the Chard Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Chester Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Coventry Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Droitwich Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Dudley Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Erewash Canal in the Counties of Derby and Nottingham
Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Grand Union Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Grantham Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Leicester Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Macclesfield Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Montgomeryshire Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey
Company of Proprietors of the Navigation of the River Dun
Company of Proprietors of the Oakham Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Oxford Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Peak Forest Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Portsmouth and Arundel Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Regent's Canal
Company of Proprietors of the River Trent Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Rochdale Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Sankey Brook Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Shrewsbury Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Shropshire Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Somersetshire Coal Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Stainforth and Keadby Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Stourbridge Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Thames and Medway Canal
Company of Proprietors of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Warwick and Napton Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Wilts and Berks Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Witham Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Navigation
Company of Proprietors of the Wyrley and Essington Navigation
Corporation of York
Cromford Canal Company (see also D7824; D9036)
Derby Canal Company
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company
Eileen Burke Collection
Ellesmere Port docks, Photographs
Ephemera
F W & A Sephton, Boat Builders
Fellows, Morton & Clayton Limited
General Acts, reports, returns and legal records relating to canals in Great Britain
General maps and plans of British inland waterways and navigations
Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company
Gloucestershire County Council
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
Grand Union Canal Company
Great Central Railway
Great Northern Railway Company
Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway Company, records
Hampshire County Council
Herbert Dunkley collection
Hertford Union Canal
Horncastle Navigation Company
Huddersfield Canal Company
Humber Conservancy Board
Images and diagram showing the Sutcliffe Sounding Wheel
Images taken by Mr M Stammers relating to boats in the Boat Museum Collection
Inland Waterways Association
Jim MacDonald Collection
Joseph Boughey-Charles Hadfield Correspondence and Research Files
Kensington Canal Navigation Company
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company
Letters relating to Northern Fleet/British Transport Waterways.
London and North Eastern Railway Company
London and North Western Railway Company
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company Limited
Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Nottingham (in respect of the Trent Navigation undertaking)
Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway
Manchester Ship Canal Company
Manchester Ship Canal, Various donations
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company
Messrs John Bradley & Company
Messrs Pickfords & Company
Michael Ware Postcard Collection
Midland Railway Company
Millwall Dock Company
Ministry of Transport
Miscellaneous diaries and notebooks
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port: Easter Boat Gathering
North Eastern Railway
North Metropolitan Railway and Canal Company
North Staffordshire Railway Company
North Walsham and Dilham Canal Navigation
Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Company
Nottingham and Grantham Railway and Canal Company
Nottingham Canal Company
Papers of Jack F Pownall
Personal papers of C F Harlow
Personal papers of Christopher Lofthouse
Personal papers of D G McGarey
Personal Papers of Herbert Potts
Personal papers of Major Frederick Fielding
Peter Wild, slide transparencies
Photograph Collection
Photographic prints of Albert John and Esther Fox
Photographs by Paul Bull of steam packet boat, 'Nenya'
Photographs from the early years of British Waterways: includes Ponders End Locks, Bulbourne, the boats 'Bury', 'Slough', 'Avocet', 'Mabel' and an Ovaltine boat
Photographs taken by Ted Faulkner of Halstead in Essex
Photographs taken in the course of 'George's Journey' and subsequently used in temporary exhibition. 'George' is a reproduction of a Leeds-Liverpool short coal boat.
Pioneer Preachers
Pocklington Canal Company
Potter & Son (Runcorn) Ltd
Press cuttings from 'The Stoke Sentinel' relating to the life of Lily Wakefield, born on a boat moored next to Middleport Pottery in 1935
Proposed canals never built
Proprietors of the Grand Western Canal
Proprietors of the River Kennet Navigation
Records of Canal Transport Limited
Regent's Canal and Dock Company
Regent's Canal City and Docks Railway Company
Register of Canal Boat Certificates
Registers of Canal Boats and Boat Inspections
River Lee Conservancy Board
River Nene Catchment Board
Royal Commission and Select Committees
Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited
Severn & Canal Carrying, Shipping & Steam Towing Company Limited
Severn and Canal Carrying Company Limited
Severn and Wye Joint Railway (under Great Western Railway Company and Midland Railway Company control)
Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Company
Severn Bridge Railway Company
Severn Carrying Company Limited
Severn Navigation Company
Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company
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Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway Company
Sister Mary Ward
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Company
Stourbridge Extension Canal Company
Surrey County Council
T & D Murrel Canal Carriers
Tees Conservancy Commission
Tennant Canal
Thames Conservancy
Thames Navigation Commissioners
Thames Water Authority
The Lower Avon Navigation Trust Limited
The National Trust (South Midlands Area)
Thorne and Hatfield Moors Peat Canals
Tools
Towage Requisitions,Manchester Ship Canal Company.
Trent (Burton-upon-Trent and Humber) Navigation Company
Trent Boat Pool Limited
Trent Navigation Company (1)
Trent Navigation Company (2)
Trent River Board
Trustees of the River Lee
Trustees of the River Weaver Navigation
Trustees of the Severn
Typescript literature relating to 1971 Rochdale Canal 'Rally Cruise'
Undertakers of the Navigation of the Rivers Aire and Calder
Undertakers of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal
United Commercial Syndicate (Owners of the Wilts and Berks Canal)
United Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere and Chester Canals
Upper Avon Navigation
Wakefield water front.printed drawing of the warehouses, Copyright Andrew Simpson.
Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company Limited
Waterways Association
Wey and Arun Junction Canal Company
Woking, Aldershot and Basingstoke Canal and Navigation Company Limited
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Down the little Grand Canyon
The waterways of Britain and the craft that used them have a tale to tell- if you care to listen
Site sought for canals museum
Waterways museum plan to include canal trips
The Mayday's distress call
North West Museum of Inland Navigation
Rose Whitlock- Obituary
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Saving Shakespeare's Avon
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Air, light and water along the Severn
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Old Billy in 1822
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A countryman's notes
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Commemorating a canal builder
Little shipyards of the days of sail
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Victorian lift for to-day's barges
Historic boatyard shuts to make way for shipshape heritage centre
Boat museum merger would be no threat to workforce
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Putting their trust in ships
800 help to clear canal
Canal route to docks
Canal goods plan needs guarantee
Catches on the Kennet
New life for a dying River Avon at Bidford?
Waterways policy
How we got the key to the house by the lock
Out of a leaky 100-years-old coal barge
Volunteers fight to save Welsh canal and town from depression
Public should pay for Avon upkeep
The canal world goes on show
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Rotting locks of Wiltshire
Memorable day for canal lovers
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Where will the water go if the city canal is closed
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Stratford Canal reopened
The Avon at Fladbury
Clear river route soon from Evesham to the sea
Freeing more of the Avon
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Opening up the Avon to shipping
Waterways to Stratford
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The Stratford-Avon may be cleared
Arrival day on the Stratford canal
Towpath Message for a Nation
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Canal aqueduct leak halts traffic
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Seeing the Underground Canals of Worsley
Silent Passage
Flatford Lock 1937
Relic of the Thames and Severn Canal
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Anerley's Canal preceded the railway
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Successful attack on the dry Runcorn locks
River Wey Navigation for National Trust
The Little-Known Wey Navigation
Rosy look for the Alice May
Upper Avon project in danger
Inland waterway men fear a reorganization tangle
£20m scheme to bring a new life to canal banks
Canal turn
The kindest cut of all
Heather barges into business
Official recognition of Cheshire's restored canal ring
The fortnightly newspaper of ICI Mond Division
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Chester Festival
Canals to Manchester
Cadbury's Centenary at Bournville 1879-1979
The two tunnels of Harecastle
Stourport-canal town
Canal rally at Linlithgow
Restoration in progress on historic pumping station
A basin full of success
Award for Boat Museum
Boat Museum aims for 200,000 tourists a year
Get Knotted
Landmarks on the Cut
Keeping Cool
A New Waterway Wonder
Lifting the Narrow Boats at Foxton
Exploring the Southern Stratford
Early Days on the Broads
Nationwide sales for NE boats/Clean dirt founded a business
Retaining the Good
The trouble with ice
Beyond the limit
Doyen of the Cynk Portz
Front door of England
Canals broad and narrow
Sketchbook Cruise
Old Whistable in Camera
The re-opening of the Blisworth Tunnel
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A pictorial history of Britain's canals
The Daniel Adamson sails into history
Returns after 60 years
Plenty of enthusiasts visit boat museum
Programme of Events 20th June- 12th July 1981
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Children of the Still Waters
Old canal craft find a home
Longest canal to get shot in arm
How Liverpool didn't miss the boat and Manchester caught the gravy train
New topper for former library
Now and Then No. 213
Tug of War to Unlock Ship Canal
Pride of the locks is a family affair
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Pecking disorder
Anderton Lift is 100 years old
Exploring England's canals
A canal of mouth-watering potential
Trendy recreation for the Trent valley
Where's Brodie?
Fresh lease of life for Tower Wharf
Warehouse scheme to do Thomas Telford proud
Hull's private hell
Days of glory back for canal lock
Once again the cradle will rock
Lifeline to a sublime legacy
Something worth restoring
Romancing the grime
Ship Canal shake-up
New life for old mill
Toast to Telford
Telford's Warehouse
Telford's Warehouse
Telford's Warehouse
New role for warehouse
History that's over
The amazing story of the Mersey Minesweepers
Wigan: Minding the past
Clean sweep
They cover the waterfront
Peterborough Liftlock going strong at 79
Basin yields scuttled riches
Boyhood days down at the boatyard
Ups and Downs of a Severed Canal
Merseyside Task Force
Great days on Merseyside
The Port of Liverpool
Which way waterways?
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Canal 'lives' again- at boat museum
New life for a canal greyhound
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Canal holiday that's packed with adventure
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Chester's Steam Mill site ready to be re-occupied
Lancashire and the North West
How a Moss Side curate invented the submarine and became a commander in the Turkish navy
Return of the Tall Ships
Ellesmere Port Bicentenary special
Ellesmere Port celebrates its bicentenary
Brian heads for hot stuff
New blow for boat owners
A lifetime on the old canal
The day of the deluge
Too many locks for pleasure cruising
Manchester's greats
Joys afloat
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Canal drops by 14 feet- Jet age ferry is left high and dry
Why not open up the Peak Forest Canal?
Deep in the heart of Worsley
A short cut to canal cruising
A sad walk by the water
I took a boat from Wigan pier
All mod cons as life goes dreamily by
Romance among the ruins
Fishing for rubbish
Plans for a marina
Taking to the narrow boats
All aboard
Canal Duke- man of vision who ended energy crisis
Just an impossible dream
The city is dying
Energy is still there!
Picturesque canal basin at Worsley
Clean-up for last mile of canal
Clean-up for the canal will turn clock back
It's there all right
Tunnel vision
Souvenir to mark the 1978 National Waterways rally
It's not so easy to paddle your own coracle
Now the rally is international
Which way waterways?
Eric de Mare- Obituary
Canalside village built on jam and abstinence
Typescript transcript (by David King) of diary re a cruise from Llangollen to Refail.
Promotional brochure re the official launching of 'Still Waters'. Tameside Canal Project, Portland Basin, Ashton-under-Lyne, Monday 11th April, 1983.
Details of Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Company casualties in the First and Second World Wars
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