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The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal Through Time
Hugh Conway-Jones
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Description for The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal Through Time
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Originally authorised as a ship canal between Gloucester and Berkeley in 1793, the entrance on the Severn estuary was changed to Sharpness to provide better access for large ships, and the canal was opened in 1827. Trade soon developed, raw materials such as timber, wheat, oats and barley being unloaded from ocean-going ships from Ireland, Europe and North America to be carried on by canal to the growing industrial towns of the Midlands. Badly affected by the loss of trade with mainland Europe during the First World War, traffic did not fully recover, but the canal played a vital role ... Read more
Originally authorised as a ship canal between Gloucester and Berkeley in 1793, the entrance on the Severn estuary was changed to Sharpness to provide better access for large ships, and the canal was opened in 1827. Trade soon developed, raw materials such as timber, wheat, oats and barley being unloaded from ocean-going ships from Ireland, Europe and North America to be carried on by canal to the growing industrial towns of the Midlands. Badly affected by the loss of trade with mainland Europe during the First World War, traffic did not fully recover, but the canal played a vital role ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445612898
SKU
V9781445612898
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-23
About Hugh Conway-Jones
Hugh Conway-Jones is highly respected local historian and leading authority on this canal, having researched it, and Gloucester Docks, for many years. He is the author of several books including a history of the docks, a picture book about the canal and a title about the lives of the people working on the Severn and Canal.
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