Barges & bread : canals & grain to bread & baking / Di Murrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murrell, Di, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grain trade--England--History.

Grain trade.

Grain--Transportation--England--History.

Grain.

Inland water transportation--England--History.

Inland water transportation.

Bread--England--History.

Bread.

History.

Grain--Transportation.

England.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Barges and bread

Place of Publication:

London : Prospect Books, 2017.

Summary:

Di Murrell knows the waterways of Britain back to front. She was born near the river Thames at Kingston in Surrey, and later she worked freight-carrying craft, and became involved in the politics of inland waterways, campaigning against the loss of river transport. She was even instrumental in the re-introduction of upriver grain traffic. When working on the river, Di got to know bargemen, dockers and lightermen, and saw their life and skills slowly disappear as more modern ways of transporting grain took over. The book is a history of grain, the river Thames, London and historical events like the Plague, and bread making, from parched grain to flatbreads, and Ezekiel bread, to how the need to feed the many who live in cities has led to bread which has little relationship to what we once enjoyed without thinking, the kind of bread we now call 'artisan' bread. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 A Word about Bread 13

Chapter 2 A Population of Farmers 27

Chapter 3 London and the Thames 37

Chapter 4 The Trading Thames 37

Chapter 5 The Making of Modern England 63

Chapter 6 The Developing River 77

Chapter 7 Grain to London from the West 93

Chapter 8 The Plague and the Fire 105

Chapter 9 All Change 121

Chapter 10 All Systems Go 135

Chapter 11 Everything's Happening 149

Chapter 12 Steam, Tugs and Sailing Barges 165

Chapter 13 Life on the Barges 181

Chapter 14 My Intrepid Story 201

Chapter 15 A Proper Loaf of Bread 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781909248519

1909248517

OCLC:

959035338

Publisher Number:

99974563960