'Bringing goods to market. Carriers in the canal age' in P I Maw, Transport and the Industrial City. Manchester and the canal age, 1750-1850

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Author(s) Maw, Peter I
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2013
Pages pp112-47
Publisher Manchester University Press
Place Published Manchester

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County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account which 'analyses the organisation of the carrying trade on Manchester canals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'. Deals with canal company carrying, 'private carriers' and 'public carriers'. The former includes - Bridgewater Canal, Mersey & Irwell Navigation, Rochdale Canal, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal and others. The latter is dealt with largely geographically -Midlands, London, Liverpool, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal, Rochdale Canal, etc