Tracing your canal ancestors : a guide for family historians
Wilkes, Sue2011
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Britain's Industrial Revolution depended on canals for the cheap movement of materials and good - until the coming of the railways. Sue Wilkes's book concentrates on the people who lived and worked on the waterways - the canal boatmen, their families and their way of life - and thos who depended on the canal trade for a living.
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Barnsley : Pen & Sword, 2011.
Collation:
192 p. : ill.
ISBN:
9781848842380 (pbk)1848842384 (pbk)
Dewey class:
929.1072
Language:
English
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BRN:
3348206