Thames Tideway - Robert Simper
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Thames Tideway
Author: Robert Simper
The largest book in the series covering the Thames from Sea Reach up to Teddington Weir. From the early nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century London was the world's largest port and depended on the complicated dock and barge system. As well as sailing barges and dumb lighters operated by lightermen there were the rowing wherries. Also steam tugs and paddles steamers and long forgotten barge traffic to Brentford, Richmond and other towns in the upper reaches.
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
Author: Robert Simper
The largest book in the series covering the Thames from Sea Reach up to Teddington Weir. From the early nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century London was the world's largest port and depended on the complicated dock and barge system. As well as sailing barges and dumb lighters operated by lightermen there were the rowing wherries. Also steam tugs and paddles steamers and long forgotten barge traffic to Brentford, Richmond and other towns in the upper reaches.
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
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