A Rotherhithe Blog: Canada Water Consultative Forum

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

A summary of the Canada Water Consultative Forum, 18th January 2016

Please note that this post has now been copied to my new planning and development blog, trackerzone, and can be found by clicking here.
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British Transport Treasures

This blog is run with considerable assistance from excellent local history publications written by Stuart Rankin. His works are my starting point for all history posts. Stuart has set up a website, called British Transport Treasures, that specializes in out of print publications which can be downloaded as PDFs that can be saved and printed. Out of print publications are a nightmare for anyone attempting local history research unless they have access to a specialist library and archives. British Transport Treasures is expanding fast with an ever-growing catalogue of titles. Each of the publications is described with a magazine-style short review to explain the scope of the content, and provided with a preview of the cover and first page. There is a nominal cost for each, to cover the costs of hosting and running the site, and 5p per item sold is donated to Help For Heroes. I am a massive fan of the site and what it is attempting to do, and as it has a number of publications concerning Rotherhithe I have drawn attention to some of them here.

Between Bridgers – Rotherhithe Street and Downtown by F.Mary Wilson, privately published, n.d. but c.1964

Rotherhithe Then and Now History Walk by Stuart Rankin, Southwark Council 2005 [ebook]

Rotherhithe Tunnel Sketches 1829

Historical Notice… Commercial Docks… Rotherhithe by Nathaniel Gould, 1844 [ebook]

Shipbuilding on the Thames and Thames Built Ships [ebook] edited by Stuart Rankin

Other titles can be found by entering "Rotherhithe" into the British Transport Treasures search engine.