Inland waterway history on the web
Websites mentioned in issues of NarrowBoat are listed here.
Websites & Archives
- Bank Hall Dry Dock
- Black Country Archive
- Blisworth Images and History
- CRT Archive
- Canalmaps Archive
- Cowburn & Cowpar (Swallow)
- FMC Steamers & More
- Irish Waterway History
- Christopher M. Jones, Artist and Illustrator
- Kennet & Avon
- Lee & Stort
- MACE Archive (Media Archive for Central England)
- Movable Bridges
- National Register of Historic Vessels
- National Waterways Museum
- NW Industrial Heritage (Peter Whitehead)
- RCHS Monuments & Memorials
- L.T.C. Rolt
- Songs of the Waterways
- Stoke on Trent Canals
- Waterways Archive
Family History
Places to Visit
- Basingstoke Canal
- Claverton Pumping Station
- Crofton Pumping Station
- Leawood Pump
- Manchester Ship Canal Cruises (Mersey Ferries)
- Standedge Tunnel
Heritage Events
- Black Country Living Museum
- The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
- Etruria Canal Festival
- Stoke Bruerne Talks, Meetings & Events
- HNBOC Diary of Events
Idle Women (Wartime Trainees by Jean Peters)
Waterway Societies & Organisations
- Basingstoke Canal Society
- Boat Museum Society
- Bude Canal & Harbour Society
- Bugsworth Basin Heritage Trust
- CanalscapeBCN
- Caldon & Uttoxeter Canals Trust
- Friends of NWM Stoke Bruerne
- Friends of President
- Friends of Raymond
- Historic Narrow Boat Club
- Hollinwood Canal Society
- Humber Keel & Sloop Preservation Society
- Inland Waterways Association
- Narrowboat Trust
- Neath and Tennant Canals Trust
- Railway & Canal Historical Society
- River Thames Society
- Saturn
- Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust
- Shropshire Union Canal Society
- Somerset Coal Canal Society
- Staffs & Worcs Canal Society
- Worcester Birmingham & Droitwich Canals Society
- Working Boats Project
Books & Videos (Current)
Books (Titles downloadable online)
- Bradshaw's Lengths and Levels
- British Canals (Pratt, 1906)
- History & Economics of Transport (Kirkaldy & Evans, 1920)
- Manchester Ship Canal (T Bosdin Leech)
- Phillip's General History of Inland Navigation
- Principles and Practice of Canal & River Engineering (Stevenson, 1872)
- Royal Commission Digest (1913) (pdf)
- Treatise on Rivers & Canals (Vernon Harcourt, 1882)
- Mike Clarke's website listing over 40 downloadable titles
