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Coventry Canal History Book


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Is there one? 

 

I can find this 'Cruising the Coventry canal (with one eye on its history)' but has anyone read it? Does it tell you about the various basins, wharves, etc or is it just a cruising guide?

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Coventry's Waterway. A City Amenity. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coventrys-waterway-COVENTRY-CANAL-SOCIETY/dp/B0011GJXF0/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Coventry's+waterway&qid=1593705316&sr=8-6

 

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Only covers the basin to Sutton Stop and surrounding area though.

 

This may be of some use but there again it may not. https://www.facebook.com/groups/257064377818320/

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In truth, the Coventry Canal does deserve a dedicated history, being at one time a vary profitable concern, if you were a shareholder.

 

Canal of the West Midlands do give a historical overview, but then there is the more specific details that do deserve a better airing. It started mainly as a waterway to convey coal, and had the unique distinction, I believe, as being built by three separate canal companies.

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A early proposal for two canal arms to Coventry. 

 

One arm from Stretton / Brinklow to Exhall / Bedworth.

The other from Stretton / Brinklow to Gosford Green, Coventry.

 

Copy of map held by Coventry Reference Library.

 

In many ways, pity it never happened.

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7 hours ago, pearley said:

What I was hoping for was a book that would say here there used to an arm to xxx quarry and that concrete wall on the offside was the loading stathe for XXX colliery.

 

The Pearson's guide covering the canal gives a fair bit of history on the disused wharves etc. 

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Pearson's guides are a useful source as are the Richard Dean maps. But which quarries and collieries are you interested in ?

 

The Coventry Canal went through the Warwickshire coal field serving a number of mines. There were several stone wharves and the merchandise carriers had depots along the canal. There were also tramroads to the canal. Samuel Barlow had a depot and his story has been discussed in books. The section from Fazeley to Whittington Brook was built by the BCN and retained by them until DIWE days. Pickfords Wharf at Fazeley was where the boatmen accused of the Murder of Christina Collins were arrested. From Whittington Brook to Fradley the canal was built by the Trent & Mersey Canal and sold back to to the Coventry Canal Co.

 

Ray T 's map relates to the Oxford Canal.

 

 

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5 hours ago, Rob-M said:

Thanks. Have no ordered it.

 

3 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

Free as an electronic one in some Amazon bundle or under a tenner here https://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781547122479

Don't do electronic books, sorry.

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