Canal building in England 1700s.

[mazi]

I think she was watching this programme, Mike:

sorry - watching a programme about canals in UK - so wondering all sorts of things about how the workers were recorded - getting a big history lesson

Now I am wondering how the current day canal people are recorded! 

Something Tony Robinson did.


Gadget
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Not Blackadder then?

[Gadget]

I'm thinking it's his Walking through History serious series - Maybe this one:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/walking-through-history/articles/all/walking-guide-wigan-pier-the-leeds-and-liverpool-canal

(The Road to Wigan Pier    )

PS - Also one on Cromford Canal.

[jess5athome]

Just checked on 1881 census, my mistake, no street mentioned, it states:

"Barge Hessle Stainforth and Keadby Canal Thorne"

Frank.

[Wiggy]

I'm thinking it's his Walking through History serious series - Maybe this one:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/walking-through-history/articles/all/walking-guide-wigan-pier-the-leeds-and-liverpool-canal

(The Road to Wigan Pier    )

PS - Also one on Cromford Canal.

Yes that's the one!  'The Road to Wigan'. Very interesting!!  must look out for the other!   

Thanks everyone for all the info.  Surely they can't all  have been 'Travellers' working on the canal - or am I getting the nomenclature mixed up - I've always assumed Travellers meant Gipsies. 

Obvious really that those working the canals were Travellers -  but, did some of them have a home base to which they returned?

 Going to try that look up method Stan - thanks.   


Spices - SBS   can you get it way out there in the sticks??   

[youngtug]

Canal Life - Past
 http://youtu.be/hPU_MD5Pga0

  and

A WAY OF LIFE LOST - THE MAGIC MYSTERY OF WORKING BOAT LIFE
  http://youtu.be/AiBFI5JtizY

[Wiggy]

Very interesting YT - specially the first one!

can't help thinking the unloading would take rather longer than the loading - specially of coal, grain and other bulk loaded goods!   Be OK these days (if they were using them) - just suck it all out!

[fastfusion]

wiggy...u knows that they only started building canals cos they hads nowheres else to let out the bath waters


seriously though   it would be interesting to see some records of some of the canal workers...   reciepts of cargo or articles otherwise related  ......     some of the bridge and stone work surely had to be recorded somewhere.....and some of those folk involved would make for good expansion on profiles in genealogy

[youngtug]

One of my lines seem to have had a somewhat chequered relationship with a canal company over a period of time. My gtgtgrandmother drowned in a canal lock. Her husband was a boatbuilder and innkeeper. There are reports of a legal dispute he had with the company amongst other things.
 A lot of information can be found in newspapers, or the London Gazette regarding land purchase and legal cases.

[Wiggy]

Land purchase to make a way for the canal??  must take a look!!