Audlem Mill New Books

Several new books have just arrived at CanalBookShop at Audlem Mill.

The Shropshire Union Canal promises to be the standard work on our local canal.

In its 288 pages (hardback), it covers in detail the history of the individual canals that were amalgamated to form the Shropshire Union over 170 years ago, traffic and finances through the commercial age of the canal, decline and revival, more recently for leisure.

The book is by Market Drayton resident Peter Brown.

Forging Ahead by Matthew Armitage is the history of what has for over 100 years been known as Tooley's Boatyard.

In the centre of Banbury, it is the longest established canal boat-building yard in the country, having opened 240 years ago. It houses the oldest inland dry dock – all now an Ancient Monument, but still very active.Canal enthusiasts will know Tooley's as the yard at which LTC Rolt's boat "Cressy" was prepared for his voyage that was written up in his seminal book "Narrow Boat".

And finally a book that will appeal to both canal and military interests – The Canal Line by Jerry Murland covers the extensive military action and battles in 1940 in northern France along the line of the canal from Gravelines through St Omer, B'thune, and La Bass'e, with contemporary and modern photos, plus car tours and walks.

Come to CanalBookShop at Audlem Mill to see these new books, plus hundreds more canal, waterway and railway books, both new and secondhand.

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