Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Society: history

Description

File of papers relating to the history of the canal. Includes: - 'Report of the Committee of Works of the Stratford-on-Avon Canal Navigation', published September 1813 - three receipts for purchase of coal at the Stratford wharf, said to be for the use of Chipping Campden church, 1845, 1847, 1852 - Photocopy invoice from Fellows, Morton and Clayton, Birmingham, to F. Kendall Sons, Stratford-upon-Avon, for the carriage of sugar on the Stratford canal, 1904 - letter from the Ministry of Transport declining to issue an Order of Abandonment in respect of the Stratford canal, 21 May 1959, with copy of a receipt establishing use, 27 February 1957 - script for a BBC Radio 4 for Schools programme on the history of the Stratford canal, 1970