Bridge over navigation rights - powers in the past?

[magpie patrick]

2 hours ago, NigelMoore said:

 

To add to your file on the subject (supposing you have one)....

I do!!!

 

On 12/10/2019 at 23:34, NigelMoore said:

Boney’s Bridge according to Fred Thackery, was first built in 1811, to improve on the former fords interrupting the towpath between Osney Lock and Folly Bridge, and rebuilt in 1850 (same year as the railway bridge was built). So it was originally built while the river and towpath was under the jurisdiction of the Thames Navigation Commission (1751 – 1866), who had built Osney Lock in 1790.

 

In this instance therefore, the bridge will have been built under the statutory authority of an Act passed during the reign of George II.

 

Thank you, that's very interesting. I don't own a copy of Thackery, but am aware of it. I might have to search one out 

 

(I haven't enough books....)

[NigelMoore]

26 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

(I haven't enough books....)

 

Nobody does.