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The Waterways Archive: 2018 Accessions

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  • Aire & Calder Navigation Co: survey maps of towpath ownership & charges (1777) and transparencies showing Stanley Ferry area with 'Tom Puddings' (1970) 1777-1970 (CRT/BMT/62-63)
  • Aire & Calder Navigation Co: information, tenders and drawings rel to new office at Leeds 1904-1904 (BW167/25/15/3)
  • Birmingham Canal Navigation Co: corresp and business records 19th cent (CRT/BCNC)
  • British Waterways Board: records of fatalities on canal network (restricted access until 31/12/2063) 1979-1988 (CRT/FAT)
  • British Waterways Board: agreement for through tolls between Runcorn, Anderton Lift and Manchester, South Staffordshire and other canal routes 1894 (CRT/BMT/21)
  • British Waterways Board: photograph albums rel to Newark Nether Lock, Stoke Lock and Hazleford Lock 1922-1928 (CRT/LOCK/1-3)
  • British Waterways Board: annotated map books showing river authority boundaries for Lancashire and waters owned or managed by British Waterways Board in the Mersey & Weaver Authority areas c 1950 (CRT/MAP/2)
  • British Waterways Board, Bulbourne workshop: specification drawings for lock gates on various canals 1990-2001 (CRT/BUL/1)
  • Droitwich Canals Trust Ltd: minutes 1973-1982 (CRT/BMT/18)
  • Grand Union Canal Co: Braunston Lock Keeper's log book 1958-1961 (CRT/BRAUNSTON)
  • H H Robertson Co: business records rel to purchase and operating procedures for the Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Company Ltd 1950-1959 (CRT/ROBERTSON)
  • Shropshire Union Railway & Canal Co: corresp and drawings rel to disputed responsibility for the clearing of drain, Marbury Brook at Willymore, Cheshire 1842-1863 (CRT/BMT/54)
  • Roger F Hewitt: digital images rel to canal restorations, mainly Rochdale and Ashton Canal 1970-2018 (CRT/HEWITT)
  • Daphne Roswell: slide transparencies and prints of British and Continental Waterways Mid 20th cent (CRT/BMT/13)
  • Denys Hutchings: colour slide transparencies of various waterways subjects 1980-1989 (CRT/BMT/15)
  • Denys Hutchings: research collection and cruising log books Mid 20th cent (CRT/BMT/17)
  • Brian Smith, canal enthusiast: collection of scrapbooks containing articles on Manchester Ship Canal dock workers' disputes with other handbooks and booklets rel to dock working 1962-1972 (CRT/BMT/33)
  • David Pollard, canal enthusiast: postcards and glass lantern slides illustrating a variety of British inland waterways 20th cent (CRT/POLLARD)
  • Peter Wild: slide transparencies rel to inland waterways network: descriptions on most 20th cent (CRT/WILD)
  • Documents, publications and research notes from a variety of sources rel to the employment of dock workers at major ports in the UK c1900-1950 (CRT/BMT/27)
  • H E Evans: collection of black and white photographic prints showing various Midland canals 1950-1969 (CRT/EVA)
  • E J D Greenwood: collection of colour prints and negatives showing North West canals, craft, boatyards and rallys 1970-2000 (CRT/GRE)
  • Glass lantern slides (with digital copies) from an unknown origin of inland waterways in the UK 19th cent (CRT/RCHS (2018/64))
  • Historic photographs of unknown origin of Ashton under Lyne (Portland Basin) and rel to First World War 20th cent (CRT/BURNIP)
  • James Hewitt: collection of documents and image of pleasure craft 'Nippy' 1960-1969 (CRT/NIPPY)
  • Marine Surveys Ltd: construction drawings of West Yorkshire Keel 'Gwendoline' 2018 (CRT/GWENDOLINE)
  • Collection of slide transparencies of unknown origin showing canal scenes and craft on 16 different canals 1960-1979 (CRT/BMT/81)
  • Ernest Lloyd (fl 1910), canal inspector and works supervisor on the Bridgewater canal: black and white photographic prints 1910 (CRT/LLOYD)
  • Peak Forest Canal Toll Office: toll collector's notebooks and other office reference items 1928-1935 (CRT/MARPLE)
  • Peter Fraenkel & Partners, civil engineering firm: a study of Operating & Maintenance Costs 1975 (CRT/BMT/16)
  • Lawrence Sands Photographic Services: black and white and colour negatives showing Anderton lift and environs 1960-1969 (CRT/BMT/49)
  • British Waterways Fearns Wharf office: documents and publications rel to the Aire & Calder Navigation 1698-1980 (CRT/BMT/53)
  • Albert Cliffe: collection of colour slide transparencies which supported talks on towpath walks in the 1970s and 1980s with notes and identifications late 20th cent (CRT/CLIFFE)
  • Prof R B Schofield: slide transparencies rel to Lancaster and Bridgewater Canals 1960-1979 (CRT/SCHOFIELD)
  • John Dodwell: photographic collection rel to scenes and craft on British canals c 1960-1980 (CRT/DODWELL)
  • R C B Jones, leisure boater: photograph album rel to canal trip in 1925, incl toll tickets and photographs of Oxford and Gloucester Canal 1925 (CRT/JONES)
  • Mollie Lawlor, leisure boater: travel diaries, photograph albums and scrapbooks rel to canal tours 1997-1993 (CRT/LAWLOR)
  • Jeanne Renton (nee Hancock), leisure boater: photograph album of pleasure boating holidays incl the Shropshire Union Canal, Llangollen Canal, Trent & Mersey Canal, Cannock Extension Canal, Grand Union Canal, Oxford Canal and Stratford upon Avon Canal 1950-1969 (CRT/RENTON)
  • Cultmark Canal Festival: pencil drawings rel to the Cultmark Canal Festival and Chester and Ellesmere Port 2005 (CRT/CULTMARK)
  • Keith Jenkins, boat family researcher: records of Civil Registration and extracts from Parish Registers used in the compilation of the data for the 'Boat Families' website 1837-1932 (CRT/BOATFAMILIES)
  • River Weaver Navigation Society: report on River Weaver Mileposts and Boundary Markers 2003 (CRT/BMT/82)
  • G R Biddle: photographic collection of North West canals showing various scenes and craft on British canals, slide transparencies, photographic prints and digitised images 20th cent (CRT/BIDDLE)
  • R Lorenz: Results of a survey of sunken boats and samples taken at Boothstown Basin, Manchester 1981 (CRT/BMT/101)
  • Councillors, Messrs Greenwood & Turner (Canal Carriers) and Greenhalls Property Management: corresp rel to proposed harbour revision order at Walton Lock etc, Warrington 1991 (CRT/BMY/106)
  • David Owen: slide transparencies, periodicals, drawings and corresp rel research on waterways for set up of museum at Ellesmere Port docks 20th cent (CRT/OWEN)