Trams, Railways and Boats
Description
This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewart Sanderson on the naming of vehicles (3 July 1972); R. S. Summerhays' articles on dustcart or vestry horses, on working horses in London in the 1890s, and on railway horses, extracted from 'Country Life' (22 January 1970), p. 191, (10 December 1970), p. 1113, and (5 March 1970), p. 548 respectively; Charles Denton's article on the foyboats of North East England, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1519; Basil Greenhill's article on sailing barges, or trows, on the River Severn, extracted from 'Country Life' (10 April 1969), pp. 880-881; Michael Bouquet's article on tall ships on the River Ouse in Sussex, extracted from 'Country Life: Sailing and Yachting Supplement'(8 January 1970), pp. 92-94; Brian Dunning's article on navigation on the River Thames, extracted from 'Country Life' (19 April 1973), pp. 1072 and 1075-1076; Christopher McIntosh's articles on the Regent's Canal (Grand Union Canal), London, extracted from 'Country Life' (6 August 1970), pp. 330?-332, and (20 August 1970), pp. 466-467; Alasdair Alpin MacGregor's article on the mail boats at St. Kilda, extracted from 'Country Life' (2 October 1969), pp. 806-807; Alfred Dunning's article on Yorkshire beacons, extracted from 'Country Life' (30 March 1967) pp. 704-705; Geoffrey N. Wright's article on beacons in England, extracted from 'Country Life'(30 September 1971), pp. 788-790; and mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' on a tricyle, a horse-mounting block, the Festiniog Railway, rates for carrying corpses by rail on the Isle of Man steam railway, the Talyllyn Railway, tramways feeding to canals from mines and quarries, a 17th-century signpost in Worcester, an 18th-century direction post at Hutton-le-Hole (North Yorkshire), the electric barge, sailing barges and a Scottish-style West Yorkshire). File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | wb6dxbw2 |
| IRN | 410636 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/4/1/4 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wb6dxbw2 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Communications |
| Date | 1967-1973 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of magazine extracts, magazine and newspaper cuttings and a mounted ms. postcard. |