Bit of long site address
http://books.google.com/books?id=HqNIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=welland+navigation&source=web&ots=u6uJDgXw-4&sig=nWaAkvGWylaP9ba04pTVWwHy_UY
this will take you to a Google book "The General History of Inland Navigation:
Containing a Complete Account of all the canals of the United Kingdom" it dates
from 1803 and can be downloaded. Not a lot on the Stamford as far as I can see
but of general interest anyway.
Steve
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], "Neil Arlidge" wrote:
>
> Steve wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], Martin
> > Clark wrote:
> >>
> >> Peter Stockdale wrote...
> >>> It is certainly not old enough for some currently alive local
not to
> >>> have seen it in action.
> >>> We need a 1950's or thereabouts O.S. map on which I am sure it
will
> > get
> >>> a mention.
> >>
> >> http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/
> >> --
> >> Martin Clark
> >>
> >> Internet Boaters' Database http://www.lock13.co.uk/boats
> >> Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
> >>
> >
> > Learnt a lot from those maps, Thankyou Martin
>
> I followed Car Dyke and went round in a complete circle ;-)
Your next tour, The Car Dyke in Earnest, that will take a bit of bow
hauling and the odd trip down the weed hatch ;)
Steve
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