Boatbuilders of Market Harborough. An exploration in words and pictures
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- Author(s) Hakewill, W R H [Bob]
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 56pp; illus
- Publisher Foxton Inclined Plane Trust Ltd
- Place Published Foxton
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Provides chapters which deal with specific businesses building vessels associated with inland waterways. These include Joseph Gilbert, 'canal haulier and boat builder' in early 19th century; Hopton & Sons, established c1860s, bentwood manufacturers making, inter alia, boat parts; Harborough Marine Ltd, established 1964, narrow boat builders; Derek Hucker Ltd, established as a boat hiring business in 1970 and which later built canal boats; Samuel J Springer / Springer Engineering Ltd, inter alia, builder of narrow boats; Fernie Steel Fabrications Ltd which started to make narrow boats in early 1970s