Narrow Boat

Rolt, L. T. C./ Watkins-Pitchford, Denys (ILT)/ Hadfield, Charles (FRW)

Sutton Publishing Ltd（2000/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780750908061
• DDC分類 914.240484

Full Description

First published in 1944, this book has been said by many to have started a revival of interest in the English waterways. It was on a spring day in 1939 that L.T.C. Rolt first stepped aboard Cressy. This is the story of how he and his wife adapted and fitted out the boat as a home and recreates the journey of some 400 miles that they made along the network of waterways in the Midlands. It recalls the boatmen and their craft, and celebrates the then seemingly timeless nature of the English countryside through which they passed.

Contents

Part 1: an introduction to the canals; to Banbury Cross; the boatbuilders; fitting out; the people of the boats; bells and beer; four houses; the Upper Avon. Part 2: Banbury to Braunston; the Grand Union Canal; the "Leicester cut"; interlude at Market Harborough; Leicester; Cossington and Barrow-on-Soar; the bellfounders; down to the Trent; singing shardlow and storm at Findern; the brewers; Horninglow to Haywood; Yockerton Hall; Trentham and the potteries; industrial landscape; Harecastle tunnels; the Vale Royal; Church Minshull. Part 3: Nantwich; into Shropshire; "dirty fair"; Cheswardine Wharf; Norbury, Newport and "cut end"; the Stour cut; Lichfield and the Coventry Canal; the Oxford Canal again; frost; spring at Hampton Gay.