Tales from the Inland Waterways

Euan Corrie has has worked and travelled throughout the English inland waterway system for many years. He has also written a wide variety of articles for magazines including Waterways World. Euan lives in Nottingham.

Introduction; George Trevithick of Keadby, Humberside: towage contractor and marine engineer; Harry and Sarah Bentley of Scholar Green, Cheshire: potteries boating; Tom Kelly of Runcorn, Cheshire: ship canal tug skipper; George Wood of Kingswinford, West Midlands: Staffs & Worcs Canal dredger driver; Violet Mould of Thurmaston, Leicestershire: long-distance boating; Jack Strange of Ellesmere, Shropshire: blacksmith; Thomas Tyson of Ardrishaig, Argyll: carpenter and lock gate builder; Joe Safe of Birmingham: from oil boatman to lock-keeper; Sam and Gladys Horne of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: boating 'til the last; Bill Dean of Newport, Shropshire: canal inspector Dredgings: discoveries from the murky depths; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Index