books.google.co.uk - From the turn of the century to the late 1950s horse-drawn narrow-boats became a rarer and rarer sight on Britain's canals. Carrying a wide variety of cargoes to such destinations as the Potteries, the textile mills of Lancashire, the papermills of London, the colleges of Oxford, they struggled on against...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Ramlin_Rose.html?id=U1nYeIIibxsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRamlin Rose