Buy this book on-line STEVENSON, PETER: : The Nutbrook Canal DerbyshireUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON,1970. ISBN 0715353349.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,scenic, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering to front and spine,publisher's b/w advert to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,publisher's original plain taupe cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-159pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus lists/tables,an introduction by Charles Hadfield,9 chapters,a mixture of contemporary b/w photographs,maps and diagrams interspersed throughout the text and the book, appendices(1-4) and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,scenic colour photographic frntis,title page and a dedication.
The Nutbrook Canal in Derbyshire,an independent branch from the Erewash Canal,was mainly a coal carrier built to serve ironworks at its foot and collieries at its head.The Act authorising the canal was passed in 1793 and the line was opened in 1796.Control was with the coal-owners.It served its purpose well until railways came,and then was preserved by its principal owner/ customers for as long as possible to protect themselves from railway monopoly.Eventually it succumbed, however,its end hastened by progressively severe subsidence from the very mine workings it had been built to serve.
Little has been previously published about the canal's long history,which makes a remarkable tale - not least for the series of lawsuits that punctuated the canal's life.This new volume in the Inland Waterways Histories series will interest canal historians,industrial archaeologists and local residents alike.Many of the physical remains of the Nutbrook Canal are likely to disappear shortly beneath the opencast coal mining that is planned along its course (then 1970).
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