Thames & Severn Archives

The following documents held at Gloucestershire Archives are now available online:

Minute Books

TS/164a Minutes of Committee of Proprietors 1783-1793
TS/164b Minutes of Committee of Proprietors 1784-1810
TS/164c Minutes of Committee of Proprietors 1810-1833
TS/166 Minutes of General Meetings of Proprietors 1783-1822

Brimscombe Port Warehouse Records

Thames & Severn Import Book September 1802.

The books of the Brimscombe Port Warehouse provide a detailed description of the goods passing to and from the port. They also record cargoes transferred to and from other vessels trading on the canal. Images of two of these books, which cover the end of the period when the Thames and Severn Canal Company traded using its own boats, are currently available online:
TS/23 - Thames and Severn Warehouse Imports 1802-1803
TS/38 - Thames & Severn Warehouse Exports 1802-1804

After the canal company stopped trading the import and export books record the cargoes which other boats took up and down the canal. We have summarised the records of boats passing through Brimscombe Port in September 1812, March 1813, September 1835 and March 1836, together a summary of the cargo manifests for boats passing through Brimscombe in September 1835.

Bye Laws

TS/194/37a Appointments, orders and directions to agents, watchmen and servants of the Company, 1789
TS/247 Thames and Severn Canal Navigation Byelaws, c 1855

Company Vessels

List of boats owned by the Thames and Severn Canal Company, prepared by Humphrey Household as part of his PhD thesis

Maps

Map of Thames & Severn Canal, with distances 1810 (Gloucestershire Archives TS/175/5)

Map of Cotswold Canals, with vertical section (Gloucestershire Archives TS/176/6)

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