Download PDF by John Cooper: Hertfordshire's Historic Inland Waterway: Batchworth to

John Cooper takes the reader on a desirable trip alongside the towpath of the Grand Union Canal, which meanders via what's arguably some of the most picturesque stretches of inland waterway within the county. utilizing a colourful choice of outdated photo postcards and images, including tremendous modern day photos, we hint the heritage of the canal from its beginnings at first of the early 19th century as an important technique of transporting uncooked fabrics to the recent factories and turbines, to its eventual decline within the mid-twentieth century and its renaissance with the rising excitement boat company. Canalside industries thrived, with companies like W. H. Walker of Rickmansworth, the place some of the narrowboats on what used to be then the Grand Junction Canal have been outfitted; the hugely profitable John Dickinson paper turbines, equivalent to the single at Croxley; the Wander manufacturing unit at Kings Langley, the place as soon as the area well-known ‘Ovaltine’ drink used to be produced; Toovey’s flour mill and the Rose’s Lime Juice wharf at Boxmoor. We stopover at the fantastic Cassiobury Farm & Fisheries, an open operating farm along the canal the place infrequent breeds and unique animals are stored, earlier than witnessing a few of the terrific, ancient narrowboats which have been lovingly restored by means of devoted fans. Wandering prior old fashioned waterside resorts, we succeed in our vacation spot – the horny nation, marketplace city of Berkhamsted, with its ruins of the eleventh-century citadel. attention-grabbing anecdotes and a wealth of knowledge abound during this well-illustrated e-book. Well-researched and intensive, this quantity will charm not just to canal and narrowboat fans, but in addition to neighborhood historians.