Canal Narrowboats and Barges
By (Author) Tony Conder
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Shire Publications
1st April 2004
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
387.24360941
Paperback
56
Width 149mm, Height 210mm, Spine 5mm
156g
This new Shire Album is primarily an introduction to narrowboats. It is illustrated by modern colour photographs of boats on the inland waterways today and will act as a guide to those who want to search out the heritage of the working canals.
Tony Conder has been involved with inland waterways since his parents first took him for walks beside the Wey Navigation. For twenty-five years he was Curator of the British Waterways Collection. Initially he was based at Stoke Bruerne, from where he collected objects from all over the canal system. In 1988 he opened the National Waterways Museum at Gloucester and in 1999 became Curator to the Waterways Trust, taking the collection to national designated status.