The Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble Navigations, Past and Present

Description

A dissertation which traces the evolution of a major commercial waterway, and describes the lives of the men who work, and have worked, on it (based on a number of fieldwork visits and interviews). The study contains the collector's hand-drawn map of the Yorkshire waterways, circa 1910, descriptions of the major types of vessels used on these waterways, a history of the Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble navigations, the situation post-nationalisation, present-day traffic on the Aire and Calder navigation and descriptions of the boatmen and their lives on the waterways. Appendices present information on mileages, number of locks and their maximum dimensions on the three principal trans-Pennine routes; notes on the collector's inspection of Haddlesey Old Lock, near Chapel Haddlesey; and biographical notes on the informants.

Metadata

Identifier d64qzfp7
IRN 410129
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/093
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/d64qzfp7
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Babbidge, P A
Date 1982
Size and Medium 72 unbound typed leaves.

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