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Archive Collection
10 Porters Row, records
Aire & Calder - Inland Container Depot Leeds
Anderton Carrying Company & Anderton Company Ltd
Arthur Watts Collection
Ashton Canal - Transfer of Droylsden Canal to Droylsden Urban District Council
Ashton Canal Islington Branch - licence to underlet land at Ancoats
Ashton Canal Stockport Branch - Sale of Chief Rent
Bacat Systems Aps
Barbridge Junction
Basingstoke Canal Purchase Committee
Birmingham and Midland Canal Carrying Company Limited
Bradford Canal Company Limited
Bradford Canal Joint Committee
Braunston Lock Keeper's Log Book
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
BWB Commercial Department - Traffic Claims General
BWB Engineering Meetings
BWB Hire Cruisers - Pleasure Craft
BWB Nantwich Pleasure Craft Base
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
Complaints - General mostly about pleasure boating
Complaints about BWB hire cruisers "Waterways Lass" and "Waterways Beauty"
Complaints from hirers - Bletchley Boat Co Ltd
Corporation of York
Cromford Canal Company (see also D7824; D9036)
Dearne & Dove Canal - Abandonment Objection by West Riding County Council
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
Four Weekly Reports British Waterways
General Acts, reports, returns and legal records relating to canals in Great Britain
General maps and plans of British inland waterways and navigations
Gerry Freeman Photographic Collection
Gloucester & Sharpness Canal - Two Mile Bend Improvement - Water Supply - D H Lovell correspondence
Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company
Gloucestershire County Council
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
Grand Union Canal - assignment of lease at Braunston from Willow Wren Canal Services Ltd to C Barney
Grand Union Canal - Brentford Depot
Grand Union Canal Company
Grand Union Canal Leicester section - Harborough Marine Complaint - Low Water Level
Grand Union Canal, tunnel traffic records
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
Items relating to narrowboat 'Lupin' and narrowboat painting
Jim MacDonald Collection
Joan Turpin, records
Joseph Boughey-Charles Hadfield Correspondence and Research Files
Kensington Canal Navigation Company
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company
Lancaster Canal - Lease of Land at Lancaster to Geo Fox & Co
Lease old toll house Norton Junction - Brigadier F Fielding
Leeds & Liverpool Canal - Blackburn (Church) Depot
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)
Macclesfield Corporation - Private Street Works Swettenham Street Macclesfield
Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal - redemption of rentcharge - Williams Deacons Bank Ltd
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 Clive Gerrard
Papers of David D. Hutchings
Papers of Jack F Pownall
Papers of Robert Shaw
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
Pleasure Craft - Meetings with Cruising Clubs
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
Re-opening of Ashton and lower Peak Forest Canals
Records of Canal Transport Limited
Regent's Canal and Dock Company
Regent's Canal City and Docks Railway Company
Regents Canal - John James and Jasons Trip
Register of Canal Boat Certificates
Registers of Canal Boats and Boat Inspections
Report of the Bowes Committee - Observations to the Ministry of Transport White Paper
River Lee Conservancy Board
River Nene Catchment Board
River Severn - Accident at Haw Bridge
River Severn - Supplies of Water
Royal Commission and Select Committees
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution - Water Pollution
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 Docks - Commercial activities
Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company
Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation development
Shipbuilders and engineers
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway Company
Shropshire Union Canal - Montgomery Branch General Correspondence - uncluding Weston and Guilsfield Arms
Sister Mary Ward
St Helens Canal - Tawdale Ltd - Hardshaw Brook Culvert in St Helens
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Company
Stoke Bruerne Museum
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 David Williams photographic collection
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.
Transfer of Railway-owned canals - Forth & Clyde and Union
Trent (Burton-upon-Trent and Humber) Navigation Company
Trent & Mersey Canal - Preston Brook Tunnel collapse
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
Union Canal - proposed culverting of railway bridge at Kingsknowe, Edinburgh
United Commercial Syndicate (Owners of the Wilts and Berks Canal)
United Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere and Chester Canals
Unpublished dissertation: Fabian Hiscock - 'Passing Through': The Socio Economic Effects of the Grand Junction Canal on west Hertfordshire
Upper Avon Navigation
Use of Water for Navigation - paper to Institution of Civil Engineers by C M Marsh
Wakefield water front.printed drawing of the warehouses, Copyright Andrew Simpson.
Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company Limited
Waterways Association
Weaver Navigation - Fortnightly Reports - dredging
Weaver Navigation - general
West Riding Group - Manager - General Correspondence
Wey and Arun Junction Canal Company
Woking, Aldershot and Basingstoke Canal and Navigation Company Limited
Yorkshire Ouse River Board - Goole & Airmyn Internal Drainage District
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