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- 1932-1936 / (Creation)
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Printed material, manuscript and typescript notes, and correspondence, relating mainly to navigation and trade on the river Severn, including two sets of pages (fourteen and eleven respectively) extracted from Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire . . . (i.e., Vol. XLIII, pp. 33-46 and Vol. XLIV, pp. 46-56), the first fourteen pages containing the first part of an article by A. Stanley Davies on 'The River Trade of Montgomeryshire and Its Borders', and the remaining eleven pages a continuation of the same article, under the slightly different title 'The River Trade and Craft of Montgomeryshire and its Borders'; cuttings [from the Shrewsbury Chronicle, 23, 30 March 1934], giving the text of a paper on 'The Navigation of the Upper Severn', read by A. Stanley Davies at a meeting of the Caradoc [and Severn Valley] Field Club, 8 March [1934], [from the same newspaper, 20, 27 April 1934], giving the text of a paper on 'The Port of Bridgnorth', read by Dr. W. Watkins- Pitchford [at a meeting of the same club], 13 April [1934], and from the Timber Trades Journal & Saw Mill Advertiser, January 7, 1933, the [Daily Sketch, 20 April 1932], and the [Birmingham Evening Despatch, 4 February 1933], all relating to the river Severn; typescript lists, ?compiled in 1934, of 'Severn Trows still rigged and trading', 'Severn Trows still afloat as barges, houseboats, etc.', and 'Severn Trows still afloat'; eleven holograph or autograph letters and one holograph postcard to A[rthur] Stanley Davies at Welshpool, from Frank G[eorge] G[riffith] Carr, House of Lords Library, 1936 (a reply to a query regarding photographs of trows), Grahame E[dgar] Farr, Redland, Bristol, 1934-1936 (5 + 1 postcard) (information relating to Severn and other trows, barges, etc.), E[dwyn] Jervoise, The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, 1934 (3) (bridges in which the writer was interested in connection with the preparation of his book [The Ancient Bridges of Wales and Western England (London, 1936)]), Griff. Phillips, Kinnerley, Oswestry, [19]36 (thanks for a book received), and Fred C. Poyser, Nautical Photo Agency, London, 1934 (forwarding photographs of Severn trows); and miscellaneous notes consisting mainly of extracts from, and references to, printed and manuscript sources relating to the Severn. The papers on 'The Navigation of the Upper Severn', and 'The Port of Bridgnorth', read by A. Stanley Davies and Dr. W. Watkins-Pitchford, were also published in the Transactions of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club, Vol. IX, pp. 198-211, and pp. 216-33.
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Formerly known as A. Stanley Davies 21.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12578C.
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- Boats and boating -- Wales -- Severn River.
- Boats and boating -- England -- Severn River.
- Bridges -- Wales -- History.
- Bridges -- England -- History.
- Severn River (Wales and England)
- Severn River (Wales and England) -- Navigation -- History.
- Bridgnorth (England)
- Severn River (Wales and England) -- Commerce -- History.
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- Caradoc & Severn Valley Field Club. (Subject)
- Watkins-Pitchford, W. (Subject)
- Carr, Frank George Griffith, 1903- (Subject)
- Farr, Grahame Edgar. (Subject)
- Jervoise, Edwyn, 1884-1955. (Subject)
- Phillips, Griffith, Kinnerley. (Subject)
- Poyser, Fred C. (Subject)