Canal & River Working Boats & Barges – Bibliography

Canal and river craft in general:

McKnight, Hugh – Canal and River Craft in Pictures – David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1969

Paget-Tomlinson, Edward – Britain’s Canal and River Craft – Moorland Publishing 1979

Paget-Tomlinson, Edward – The Illustrated History of Canal and River Navigations – Sheffield Academic Press 1993

Paget-Tomlinson, Edward – Colours of the Cut – Landmark Press 2005

Smith, Peter L. – Canal Barges and Narrowboats – Shire Publications Ltd 1975

One of the 'Purton Hulks'.

Narrow boats:

Chaplin, Tom – Narrow Boats – Whittet Books 1989

Faulkner, Alan H. – Barlows [1986] Claytons of Oldbury [1978] F.M.C. [1975] The George and the Mary [1973] Severn & Canal and Cadburys [1981] – a series of specialist booklets published by Robert Wilson, Rothwell Wilson,

Wilson, Robert J. – Knobsticks – Robert Wilson, Rothwell 1984


Sailing Barges:

Carr, Frank – Sailing Barges – Peter Davies 1951

Clark, Roy – Black-Sailed Traders – Putnam 1961

Cooper, F. S. and John Chancellor – A Handbook of Sailing Barges – Adland Coles 1955

Green, Colin – Severn Traders – Black Dwarf 1999

Maister, Robert – Wherries and Waterways – Terence Dalton 1971

Schofield, Fred – Humber Keels and Keelmen – Terence Dalton 1998

Stammers, Michael – Mersey Flats and Flatmen – Terence Dalton 1993

Restored Wherry Albion

Leeds and Liverpool Canal boats:

Clarke, Mike – The Leeds and Liverpool Canal – Carnegie Press 1990

 

Tom-Puddings and Yorkshire barges:

Clarke, Mike – The Aire and Calder Navigation – Tempus [Images of England] 1999

Crabtree, Harold – Railway on the Water [edited by Mike Clarke] – The Sobriety Project 1993

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