Hayman Series 6-8

Hayman Series 6 (River Steamers)

'River Steamers - Mersey Estuary: Bridgewater Canal Undertaking and Mersey and Irwell Navigation 1815-1948' by A. Hayman 1982

(typescript) DO NOT ISSUE

Photocopies of registration certificates held at Merseyside Record Office for steam packets 'Duke of Wellington' (1817), 'Prince Regent' (1817), 'Thomas Royden' (1838), 'Tower' (1840), 'Blanche' (1841) and steam tugs 'Bridgewater No 1' (1857), 'Earl of Ellesmere' (1858), 'St Winnifred' (1870)

List of [river] steamers built 1840-1870 with details of size, etc and weekly wage rates of crew 1879 (photocopy)

List of steamers registered 1869-1895 (photocopy)

Valuation of river steamers 1872-1876 (photocopy)

Stock account and depreciation of river steamers and canal tugs to 1878 prepared by Henry Collier for E.L. Williams

Cost of maintaining the Company's steamers 1874 (photocopy)

Cost of lighting and buoying the River Mersey for 1873 and 1874 (photocopy)

Bridgewater Navigation Company Ltd: Notices and regulations relating to the steamers etc, 1 Jul 1874 (1 booklet)

Letter from I. Meadowcroft to the General Manager (E. Leader Williams) 17 Jan 1879: concerns vessels towed light from Runcorn to Liverpool and Garston free of charge 1877 and 1878

Report by the Manager (Henry Collier) on river steamers; concerns the purchase of the 'Queen of the Mersey' Jun 1880

Contemporary copy of time allowed for the sailing of vessels between Liverpool and Todmorden, Dec 1879

Contemporary copy of table of reference for masters of coasting vessels showing the height of tides safe for towing vessels between Runcorn and Liverpool according to various draughts, n.d.

'Port of Manchester tugs: a brief review of the tugs that have served on the Manchester Ship Canal since its opening in 1894' by W.B.Hallam

'Tugs of the Manchester Ship Canal' by W.B.Hallam

'Runcorn in Times Past' by H.F.Starkey

Hayman Series 7 (Carrying Craft of the Bridgewater Canal Undertaking)

(A) Registration details of schooner 'Worsley' 1794 (transcript)

(B1) Registration details of square stern carvel 'Commerce' 1842 (transcript)

(B2) Notes on Bridgewater Canal dockyards by A. Hayman

(B3) Copy of article on Victoria Dockyard ('The Sprinch') by Keith Holt in 'Waterways World', Mar 1978

(B4) Copy of report on the building and opening of Victoria Dockyard in 'Ship Canal News' 1891

(B5) Abridged transcript of report in 'Warrington Guardian' 21 Dec 1872 on launch of the 'John Ellis' at Runcorn

(B6) Transcript of report in Warrington Guardian' 14 Jun 1873 on launch of a flat at Anderton

(B7) Plan of Bridgewater wooden barge 1911; also photograph of the barge 'Coronation' launched 1911

(B8) Photographs of Big Pool , Runcorn, the graveyard for Bridgewater flats, 1937

(B9) Plan of Bridgewater wooden barge 1928 (no barges ever built to this plan)

(C1) Plan of Mere class steel barge 1955; also photograph of the launching of steel barges at Northwich Boatyards

(C2) New steel barge fleet 1948-1957: list of names, builders and delivery dates

(D1) Notice of time allowed by the Bridgewater Trustees for the sailing of their vessels between various places 1870

(D2) Notice of time allowed by the Bridgewater Trustees for the sailing of their vessels between various places 1874

(D3) Bridgewater Navigation Company: regulations to be observed by the crews of the Company's flats and boats, 1876

(D4) Transcripts of reports from 'Warrington Guardian' 1884 concerning the strike of the Bridgewater flatmen

(D5) Upper Mersey Watermen and Porters Association: local bye-laws 1890 and newspaper cuttings 1892

(E1) Certificates of Composition for vessels 'Sarah' and 'Gertrude' 1909

(E2) Canal Boat Certificate and British Ship Registration Certificate for wooden barge 'Oder' 1877 (photocopy)

(E3) List of dimensions and carrying capacities of Bridgewater barges 1880-1910

(E4) Table showing general dimensions of carrying craft on Bridgewater Canal, 1902 (photocopy); also list of flats in the Manchester Section with details of dimensions

(E5) Table showing number of carrying craft, canal tugs and river steamers and their dimensions 1908

(E6) Statement of Boats in stock Dec 1872 with subsequent additions to Sep 1874 (photocopy)

(E7) Bridgewater Canal Company: record of stock taken Dec 1878

(E8) Stock of steamers, craft and plant Dec 1887

(E9) Survey of barge fleet 1924-1928

(E10) List of wooden flats in commission Dec 1946

(F) Statistics on employees 1906-1920

(G) Letters and related papers on the closure of canal depots 1924-1935

(H) 'Mersey and Weaver Flats: the sailing river and canal flats of North West England' by Edward Paget-Tomlinson

Hayman Series 8 (Heyday of the horse)

'The Heyday of the Horse' by A.Hayman 1983 (typescript) DO NOT ISSUE

Bridgewater Navigation Company Ltd

Engineer's report by E. Leader Williams, General Manager and Engineer, 20 Feb 1877

Stock account of horses 6 Jan 1879; also stock account of old horses and horses in poor condition 1878 and stock taken 1878 (photocopy)

Account of number of team horses at each station Jun 1873, Jan 1875, Oct 1876 (photocopy of p.79, Notebook No.2); account of number of hauling horses belonging to the Company 1872-1877 (photocopy of p.84, Notebook No.2)

Notice to horsekeepers and drivers, 1873

Memorandum of the duties of the ostler at Castlefield Team Stables, c.1873

Instructions to lurrymen 1874

Manchester Ship Canal Company: Bridgewater Department

Instructions to lurrymen, 1892

Instructions to carters, 1896

Stock account of horses 1921

Photographs of team horses at Castlefield prepared for Whit week walks in Manchester, 1946 (3 photographs)