Tuesday 22 August 1939
Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
Bedfordshire
CANAL BOAT CHILDREN. FLOATING SCHOOL COMES TO LAND. The floating school in which, for some years, the children of men working on the Grand Union Canal have received elementary education has left its old moorings at West Drayton and has been hauled on
I was wondering in this article below, well is this how most canal boats end up
Tuesday 06 September 1932
Gloucester Citizen
Gloucestershire
PICKLED CANAL BOATS CRAFT TO BE RAISED AFTER 12 YEARS Numbers of old canal boats on the Grand unnion and Grand Junction Canals are to-day being raised from watery graves, in which they have lain for perhaps a dozen years. They have been in
Friday 31 January 1930
Dundee Evening Telegraph
Angus
BANNING CHILDREN FROM CANAL BOATS MP's Bill in Commons Only Way to Solve Education Difficulty In the House of Commons to-day, Mr H. Gosling (Soc., Whitechapel) moved the second reading of the CanalBoats Bill, which provides that no child
Friday 31 January 1930
Portsmouth Evening News
Hampshire
Canal Boats Cleaner Than Slums
The ordinary canal boat was cleaner than the slum, and the children led healthy outdoor life, moved for the rejection of the Bill. Sir John Withers said if they were passed in its present form it would be necessary to provide boarding schools for the thousand children
Saturday 21 December 1929
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
Yorkshire
CANAL BOAT CHILDREN. Sir,—The publication of the text of the Bill introduced by Mr. H. Gosling. M.P., to amend the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884, impels me to draw attention to the serious interruption of canal development which would follow ill-considered
Monday 24 December 1917
Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Yorkshire
canal boat Providence, moored , Paper mill coal wharf, Barnsley, canal iced
Saturday 27 February 1915
Bucks Herald
Buckinghamshire
the death of William Barrie, a boatman. Edward Jones, boatman employed at Linstade, gave evidence to identity. James Hambridge stated that he was going to Coventry with two boats Thursday
Friday 20 November 1908
Coventry Evening Telegraph
Warwickshire
William Hambridge. canal boatman, Nuneaton, was summoned by Frederick Chamberlain, manager of the Oxford Canal Co., for throwing things into the canal. Mr.Oliver J. Stockton, Benbury, it appeared to promote a practice on the part of the boatmen, of relieving the load on their boats by throwing the stone into the canal but the consequence was that the Consignee was cheated, and the company put to much mony to clear the canal. Over a ton of stone was missing from defendant's boat at the end of the journey. P.C. Capewell said on the 4th inst. he was on duty at the main bridge at Hawketery and saw defendant, who was in charge of a canal boat dropping stone, with which the boat was loaded, into the canal. Defendant denied the offence, but the Bench issued a fine of 10'. and costs, in default. 14 days
Thursday 18 April 1907
Banbury Advertiser
Oxfordshire
The twelve knives produced, witness received them from Eliza Hambridge, the wife of a canal boatman, on the 9th inst. By the Mayor; Witness was quite sure that Hartley said she found the knives
Wednesday 13 June 1906
Oxfordshire Weekly News
Oxfordshire
William Hambridge, boatman, was summoned for working a horse whilst in an unfit state, at Somerton. on May 15th. He pleaded not guilty
Friday 16 August 1901
Coventry Evening Telegraph
Warwickshire
COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS
Two Nuneaton boatmen, named John Thomas and Samuel Coles, were summoned by Richard Hambridge, Bedworth, for breaking and injuring part of a canal boat, and doing damage to the amount of £2, Bedworth, on the 10th
Friday 03 August 1900
Coventry Evening Telegraph
Warwickshire
Joseph Coles, boatman, Oxfordshire, summoned by Thomas Hambridge, boatman, for cruelty to a dog. The detendant was walking behind complainants horse, when the dog
Saturday 06 October 1900
Tamworth Herald
Staffordshire
ATHERSTONE COUNTY COURT
he would have had to have waited until the defendant passed.— Thomas Hambridge, boatman, stated that there was no other boat in sight when Moore's boat began to turn. —Emma Hambridge, Alfred Green, and John Chetwynd, landlord of the King's Head, Grendon
Friday 03 August 1900
Coventry Evening Telegraph
Warwickshire
NUNEATON POLICE COURT. -The following cases were too late for our edition on Thursday: Joseph Coles, boatman, Oxfordshire, summoned by Thomas Hambridge, boatman, for cruelty to a dog
Saturday 04 August 1900
Oxford Journal
Oxfordshire
OXFORD CITY COUNCIL
As examining officer under the Canal Boats Acts, I submit a report on Canal Boat Providence, belonging to William Lamsdon. The boat complies with the regulations, and I recommend that a certificate be granted