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The Pyreolophore.
No I hadn’t heard of it either. The worlds first internal combustion engine and the first internal combustion engine used to power a boat.Nicephore and Claude Niepce came from a wealthy landowning...
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A Rare early Voyage.
The early voyagers for pleasure on our waterways seem to have been an invariably shy and retiring bunch of individuals whose descriptions of their travels were more often than not written anonymously....
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Another Wartime Lady.
Artist Bernard Hailstone was commissioned by the War Office Advisory Committee to paint many Wartime military & civilian scenes. He is especially well known for his portraits of individuals...
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Amos Reade revealed.
In a recent post I mentioned the fact that many of the early canal pleasure voyagers published their accounts anonymously.Anonymously authored books or the use of nom de plume’s were of course not a...
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The Canoeist & The Royal Canoe Club.
I wrote about one of the early accounts of canal cruising for pleasure in a previous post (Canal and River) and have subsequently unearthed this copy of the Royal Canoe Club’s journal for 1874 which...
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Cards and a couple of Cans (At Auction 2017).
Some fine vintage cards have appeared at auction recently. Probably more popular than book collecting - rare vintage cards attract much attention and appropriate prices.Foxton lift &...
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The First Boat Rally (Market Harborough 1950) &‘Adventure by Canal’ by George...
I had known about George Tansey’s book for many years but had never actually seen a copy until recently. Its rarity can I think be explained by its ephemeral nature, it being a thin copy printed on...
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