Maidens' Trip

This books tells the story of how women "off the land" were recruited to crew canal boats under the Ministry of War Transport scheme

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The Amateur Boatwomen. Gayford, Emily

The Quiet Waters

The author tells how he and his wife hired a pair of boats from the Docks & Inland Waterways Executive in 1948 and spent a year carrying cargo on the canals

‘No. 1.’ is the second in a series of three memoir- cum-social-histories and it follows on from where the earlier ‘Anderton for Orders’ left off. The writing, whilst not elegant, does successfully and vividly capture Foxon’s dogged determination to make a viable living from his working boat. Ever pragmatic Foxon’s single-mindedness, you could even say bloody-mindedness, is evident on every page.

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