Bread Upon the Waters: No. 3 (Working Waterways S.). This item is unavailable.Bread Upon the Waters: No. 3 (Working Waterways S.)

M&M Baldwin of Cleobury Mortimer Shropshire published gloss pictorial card covered book with square bound spine. The autobiography / memoirs of David Blagrove who worked on the canals during their declining years in the 1960s. A very readable account of life on working boats plus ther authors' experiences during the great freeze of 1962/63. 2003 2nd printing. 224p of text including glossary of terms. Size 8.25in tall x 5.25in wide.

David Blagrove was a working boatman carrying coal, timber, and a cargo of hardboard and cocoa residue at the time when the canals were immobilized by the "great freeze" of 1962-1963. This text chronicles the last years of narrow-boat carrying. It is is a detailed account of a past era, inhabited by the last generation of canal boating families. It records the problems the boating community suffered in the early 1960s and their helplessness in the face of un-moving bureaucracy, and insuperable weather conditions. The book also records the methods of working the boats. This new edition comprises the whole of the original text (with some corrections) and the original illustrations.